The daily word-origin game
You have played every open word today. They open again tomorrow, reshuffled.
You have mastered every word there is. New ones are added as they are written.
Quarantine
noun · isolation to prevent disease spread
Where does it come from? Three of these stories are lies.
A tap strikes out a lie, a point each. Touching the truth ends the round. Sure? Name it below.
Three lies. One truth.
A tap strikes a story out as a lie, so don’t tap the truth. Sure which is true? Name it: right is a clean sweep, wrong ends the round.
Keyboard
1–4 strike a story T name the truth, then 1–4Sure which story is true? Right is a clean sweep. Wrong ends the round with nothing scored.
Every word has four origin stories. One is its real etymology, sourced and checked. The other three are lies, each copying a real way false origins get made, from the just-so story to the fake eponym. Strike the three lies without touching the truth, or name the truth outright if you are sure, then see where the word really came from.