The game
A daily writing ritual, built from famous first lines.
Fiction
Poetry & Drama
Non-fiction
Wildcard
The deck
Sixty famous openings
Each card carries the first twenty words of a famous work, in four colour-coded suits: yellow fiction, blue poetry and drama, red non-fiction, and a purple wildcard.
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The draw
Five cards, four numbers
Every day, the whole world gets the same draw: four random numbers applied to five cards yield your twenty words — each one still wearing the colour of the work it came from.
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The constraint
Only these words
Write a poem, a story, a fragment — anything, any length — using only today's twenty words. Homophones are allowed under the Rule of Homophones; grammar is optional.
20 Words is on its way. The solo daily puzzle comes first; reading and rating other players' entries, daily champions, and private groups follow.