Literature quiz
Othello characters: a minefield
15 Shakespeare characters. 7 of them are in Othello; the rest have wandered in from other plays. Click only the ones who belong.
- Format
- Click the grid
- Items
- 7 to click
- Limit
- 1:00
- Level
- Medium
- Checked
- 2026.10.03
- To find
- 7
- Time limit
- 1:00
- Minefield
- One wrong click ends it
- Click every valid item, in any order.
- Decoys look plausible. Read carefully.
- Pause whenever you like (Esc). The board hides while the clock is stopped.
Click every character from Othello. The grid appears when you start.
About this quiz
Every right answer has lines in Othello, and every wrong one has lines in another Shakespeare play and none in this one.
- Anyone named in the title of the play is left off the board.
- The board is shuffled for each game, and everyone gets the same first board each day.
- Names are spelled as the Folger Shakespeare Library spells them.
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