We have Catfishing at Home
A pass-and-play Wikipedia guessing game for you and your friends — build themed sets of articles, then take turns guessing each one from its categories alone.
The idea
Every Wikipedia article lives inside a handful of categories — and those categories, read as a list, almost describe the article without naming it. This game leans on that: pick an article, hide its title, show the categories, and make your friends guess.
It’s a clone of catfishing.net, reworked so you can build your own sets instead of playing a daily puzzle. Share a set URL and anyone can play on their own device.
What makes it work
- Auto category filter — admin noise and dead giveaways (anything containing a word from the title) get stripped before you see them.
- Your own hints + aliases — bolt on extra clues the Wikipedia editors never wrote, or accept obvious nicknames as correct answers.
- Forgiving matching — spelling slips, partial word matches, and close variants count.
- No accounts, no logins — an HttpOnly cookie silently marks sets you create as yours. Public sets are playable by anyone but only editable by their creator.
Under the hood
Next.js 16 (App Router) + React 19 on the frontend. Prisma 7 + Postgres on the backend. Wikipedia’s open API does the heavy lifting for articles, categories, and images. Hosted on Vercel, database on Neon, styled with Tailwind v4.