Memory card game

What Was It?!

The moment you name a creature you have never seen, that name becomes a word only this table understands.

Public game
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What Was It?! gameplay: remember a creature’s name and choose an answer
Actual gameplay · English version
What Was It?! — four-player shared-screen gameplay
How it plays

How it plays

01

Give it a name

Flip a card and a creature you have never met appears. Pick one of four suggested names, or make one up yourself.

02

Shout it when it returns

When the same creature shows up again, whoever shouts the name you gave it first takes the card.

03

The ladder rises

Playing alone, you climb six stages back to back. Each stage adds cards and cuts the timer from five seconds down to three.

Players
Solo or 2-4 players
Platforms · includes development targets
Browser · Android · Windows
In-game languages
Korean · Japanese · English · Chinese
Status
Public game
Highlights

What makes it different

A six-stage ladder

You need to clear 70% correct on each stage to move up. Reach the top and a stage multiplier is added to your score.

Things built to confuse you

Higher stages slip in identical twin pairs and names that sound almost the same.

Alone or with four

A solo mode for chasing records and a mode where two to four people compete on one device.

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