What is Bracket City?
Bracket City is a clue-solving game where the clues live inside each other. Each day's puzzle is a sentence about something that happened in history, but key words have been replaced by clues in brackets, and some of those clues contain smaller bracketed clues of their own. You start with the innermost brackets, and each answer you type slots into the clue around it, slowly unlocking the next layer. Some clues are wordplay, some are general knowledge and some use emoji. When everything is solved you are left with a complete historical fact, and the game links to more reading if it catches your interest. Your result gets a rank, from tourist up to power broker, depending on how much help you needed. Bracket City was created by Ben Gross and is now published by The Atlantic, where it is free to play. It suits people who enjoy cryptic-ish clues, trivia and the pleasure of watching a puzzle unfold.
How to play
- Start with the innermost bracketed clues.
- Each answer fills in the clue around it, revealing the next layer.
- Solve everything to uncover the day's historical fact.
