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+name: "Verba Prima"
+subtitle: "Guess the novel from nothing but its opening line"
+date: 2026-07-16
+link: "https://www.verbaprima.com/"
+linkText: "verbaprima.com"
+source: "Hacker News — Show HN"
+topics: [words-and-humor, learning-and-reference]
+tags: [literature, trivia, browser-game]
+description: "A browser guessing game built entirely from famous first sentences — from 'In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit' to Kafka's 'Someone must have slandered Josef K.' — name the book from one line."
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+Verba Prima strips a famous novel down to a single sentence — its opening line — and asks you to name the book. The lines range from instantly recognizable ("In a hole in the ground there lived a hobbit") to properly obscure, testing how much a great first sentence actually tells you before the rest of the book shows up. Round by round, it's a reminder of how much work a great opening line does.