You could learn about different writing systems, language families, poetic forms, and even the choices translators make when carrying a work from one language into another, and WHY. Guessing wrong would still be success, becuase you get to read something new.

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So you’re learning to recognize languages visually, but you’re also exploring the literature, history, poetry, and aesthetic and emotional traditions of the people who speak them.

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You keep playing. You encounter Georgian, and discover Shota Rustaveli and The Knight in the Panther's Skin. You encounter Persian, and discover Hafez! You encounter Polish, and discover the poetry of Wisława Szymborska.

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Tamil. Maybe you guessed, but you’ll learn how to recognize it again. Then you learn what you read was: “As the letter A is the first of all letters, so the eternal God is first in the world.” And it’s the first couplet of the Tirukkural, a classical Tamil work of 1,330 couplets. 

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You know what game I’d like to build? The Literary Atlas. You log in, and on the screen you see, maybe: அகர முதல எழுத்தெல்லாம் ஆதி பகவன் முதற்றே உலக You’re asked to identify the language: Sinhala Tamil Maylayalam Kannada You choose.

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