Literature quiz
Hugo Award for Best Novel criteria game
Every prompt lists four criteria: the decade, the length of the title, how it starts and how often its author won. Exactly one winner fits all four.
- Format
- Pick the match
- Items
- 10 to match
- Limit
- 3:20
- Level
- Hard
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
A fresh 10 of the 47 each time. Today's first round is the same for everyone.
- Prompts
- 10
- Bank
- Winning novel buttons, A to Z
- Time limit
- 3:20
- A miss
- Shows the answer, then moves on
- Each criteria appears in turn. Click its match in the bank.
- Used answers leave the bank. Keys 1 to 9 pick the first nine buttons; type a name to jump to it.
- Skip (0) sends a prompt to the back of the queue.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Pick the winning novel that fits every criterion. The bank appears when you start.
About this quiz
A deduction game on the Hugo Award for Best Novel list, 1953 to 2026. The criteria are worked out from the list itself, so every prompt has one answer and only one.
- 47 of the 75 winners can be pinned down by their four criteria alone; each round deals 10 of them.
- Numbers written as figures count as words, an ampersand does not, and a subtitle left off the title shown is not counted.
- An author's wins are counted on this list only.
- A used title leaves the bank, so the last prompts can be worked out by elimination.
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