How to play

A god hides behind the veil. Name them in ten guesses.

Type any god (there are 634 to choose from) and pick one from the list. Each guess lights five instruments that tell you how close you are:

Culture

Greek, Norse, Egyptian and so on. Gold means the right part of the world but the wrong people.

Generation

Where they stand in the order of creation, oldest first: Primordial (the first powers, like Chaos or Ymir), Titan / Elder (the older gods, like Cronus), God or Minor god (nymphs, spirits, lesser powers), Demigod (born of a god, like Heracles) and Mortal (a human of legend, like Odysseus). Monsters and beasts (like Medusa or Pegasus) stand outside the line. Gold is one step away; the arrow says whether today's god is older or younger.

He / She

He, she, they (a pair or a group, like the Muses) or it.

Domains

What they hold power over: the sea, storms, the dead, love, trickery. Each domain you share lights up.

Kin

Your guess's family, friends and foes. A relative you share with today's god lights up, and if your guess is family of today's god, you'll be told.

Cyan is a match, gold is close, dark is no match. The top row, Today's god, fills in with everything you have learned. Tap any row for its details.

Every wrong guess lifts two plates of the veil and opens an entry of the Archivist’s Annals on the god, the most obscure first. When the day is decided, win or lose, the Annals open in full. Stuck? After your fifth guess you can read the god's museum label (with the name blacked out); after your eighth, see how the name begins.

The gods come in the Compendium's own order, a story told in arcs, starting with the Greek Primordials. A god's other names count too: Kronos is Cronus.

Every god you unveil is claimed for your Pantheon: a cabinet of the plates you have won. As it grows you rise through the ranks of those who spoke with the gods: Initiate, Diviner, Augur, Seer, Magus, Oracle and, for every god unveiled, Hierophant.

A new god every day at midnight, your time.