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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were a fixed list, and only one of them is still standing. Below: which is which, and why the list kept changing while the Wonders stayed famous.
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How to play
Read the description, then tap the wonder it refers to.
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The Seven Wonders of the Ancient World were a fixed list, agreed on by Greek observers roughly two thousand years ago. Only one of them — the Great Pyramid of Giza — is still standing, and even that is slowly losing its casing stone by stone.
The list survives because it was memorised, not because it was accurate. Understanding it means knowing the seven names, their locations, and why the modern list usually adds a couple of honorary entries.
How the game works
You are shown a description and four wonders. Pick the wonder it refers to. A wrong pick reveals the answer immediately.
Easy uses the seven canonical wonders. Medium adds the ones the modern world likes to include. Hard uses the full list.
The seven worth knowing
Great Pyramid of Giza — Egypt, near Cairo, the only survivor.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon — Babylon, in modern Iraq, and the one nobody can prove existed.
Temple of Artemis at Ephesus — in modern Turkey, rebuilt several times, destroyed in a riot.
Statue of Zeus at Olympia — Greece, in the sanctuary of Olympia.
Mausoleum at Halicarnassus — modern Turkey, a tomb for a king, one of the first to combine a pyramid with a temple.
Colossus of Rhodes — a giant bronze statue of the sun god, stood at the harbour entrance.
Lighthouse of Alexandria — Egypt, the Pharos, a tower with a beacon that guided ships for centuries.
Strategies that actually raise your score
Anchor each wonder to its country. Seven places, seven countries: Egypt twice, Greece, Turkey twice, and the rest around Mesopotamia. The geography alone often answers the question.
Use the materials as clues. Bronze means Rhodes, a beacon means Alexandria, a giant tomb with a pyramid means Halicarnassus.
Recognise the uncertain one. If the description mentions gardens hanging in the air, that is Babylon, and that entry is also the one historians doubt.
Treat the modern list as a bonus. The Great Wall of China and the Colosseum are often added as "new wonders"; they are not on the ancient list, so a question naming them is testing a different thing.