Novels by word count
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Novels by word count
Order by word count, shortest first. You place all 25 cards in the right order, one at a time. You start with three lives, and ten right in a row wins a lost one back.
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How the book word count ranking game works
The cards are famous books, from bedtime picture books to doorstop classics, each with its author printed below the title. You sort them by how many words they contain, shortest first. Counts over ten thousand are rounded to the nearest thousand. One book starts on the line with its count showing. Slot each new card into a gap. A good call reveals the word count, while a bad one moves the book to its real spot and takes one of your three lives.
The scale is huge, so the jumps between neighbors get bigger as you climb. The picture books sit close together and are surprisingly hard to tell apart, since a page of pictures can hide very few words. Further up, page count can mislead you, because type size and translations vary. School favorites and children's chapter books are often shorter than memory suggests, and some page-turners are far longer than they feel.
What's in the deck
Here are 25 of the 25 cards you might be dealt. Their values stay hidden until you place them.
- Goodnight Moon Margaret Wise Brown
- The Very Hungry Caterpillar Eric Carle
- Where the Wild Things Are Maurice Sendak
- Madeline Ludwig Bemelmans
- The Giving Tree Shel Silverstein
- The Tale of Peter Rabbit Beatrix Potter
- The Story of Babar Jean de Brunhoff
- The Cat in the Hat Dr. Seuss
- Frog and Toad Are Friends Arnold Lobel
- Flat Stanley Jeff Brown
- The Twits Roald Dahl
- George's Marvellous Medicine Roald Dahl
- Diary of a Wimpy Kid Jeff Kinney
- The Cricket in Times Square George Selden
- Charlotte's Web E. B. White
- Matilda Roald Dahl
- Lord of the Flies William Golding
- Harry Potter and the Philosopher's Stone J. K. Rowling
- To Kill a Mockingbird Harper Lee
- The Da Vinci Code Dan Brown
- Jane Eyre Charlotte Brontë
- Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix J. K. Rowling
- Anna Karenina Leo Tolstoy
- It Stephen King
- War and Peace Leo Tolstoy
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