Speech Match

Five famous quotes. Five speakers. Match them — but watch out for misattributions.

Puzzle #000 —
Tap a quote, then tap who you think said it. Then submit.
Speakers (tap to assign)

How Speech Match works

You're shown five famous historical quotes and five possible speakers. Tap each quote, then tap the speaker you think said it. Submit when you're done — green means correct, red means misattributed. The reveal explains who actually said each line.

About the misattributions

A surprising number of "famous quotes" were never said by the person they're attributed to. "I disapprove of what you say, but I will defend to the death your right to say it" was not said by Voltaire — it was written by his biographer Evelyn Beatrice Hall in 1906. "The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results" has never been traced to Einstein. "Let them eat cake" predates Marie Antoinette by decades. Speech Match teaches you to spot these — and to think carefully about what you read on social media.

Frequently asked questions

How does scoring work?
Each correct match is one point out of 5. Streak counts consecutive days where you scored 5/5.
How many quotes are in the database?
Over 50 documented historical quotes plus a handful of well-known misattributions, spanning Caesar (49 BC) to JFK (20th century).
Can I play more than once per day?
Yes — click "Play another" after the daily reveal for a random bonus puzzle. Bonus puzzles don't affect your streak.
Where do the citations come from?
Quote attributions are sourced from Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, the Oxford Dictionary of Quotations, and the Quote Investigator project. Misattributions follow the consensus of those sources.

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