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Homer’s Odyssey in twenty-four games, one for every book, as the scholars of the Library of Alexandria divided it. Follow Telemachus in search of his father, and Odysseus on his long way home, from the Cyclops’s cave to the great bed of olive wood. The English climbs in half-steps, two books at each level, from A1 to C2+.
A1–C2 · 24 lessons and gamebooks · 📱 Phones · All language games
Book One A1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: isn’t / doesn’t; my / him; men; who / why; Sit down; this / that
A house full of rude suitors, a boy who has never met his father, and a stranger at the door.
Book Two A1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: are; our / her; there are; can; he eats; when; at night; Do you…?
Telemachus speaks to all of Ithaca, and slips away by night in a borrowed ship.
Book Three A1+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: is / are + -ing; was / were; -er than; some / any; always + verb; be going to; with
A beach full of bulls, the oldest king in Greece, and very long stories.
Book Four A1+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: is + -ing; everybody is; let’s; would like to; can’t; was; how many; on an island; next to
A wedding feast in Sparta, and a sea god who changes shape on the island of Pharos.
Book Five A2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: sent / built / cried; Did…?; couldn’t; more beautiful than; for + time; suddenly; nobody; so… that
Home or immortality? A raft, a storm, and a goddess’s veil.
Book Six A2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: want to; should; threw / woke / was; afraid of; look like; him; first / then; the most beautiful
A princess, a ball in the river, and a shipwrecked man who needs the right words.
Book Seven A2+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: was + -ing + past simple; has just + pp; ever / haven’t; as… as; too… to; must; will; whose
Golden gates, a garden that never stops fruiting, and a queen who notices everything.
Book Eight A2+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: good at; don’t + verb; faster; the furthest; while; couldn’t; if + present, will; who
Games, an insult, and a song about the wooden horse that makes a stranger weep.
Book Nine B1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: tell + person + to; make + person + verb; manage to; as soon as; on his own; too many; each other; get drunk; be called; Who + verb?
A giant with one eye, a skin of strong wine, and a man called Nobody.
Book Ten B1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: so that; had to; had + pp; suggest + -ing; on the way; still; turn into; instead of + -ing; look after
A bag of winds, a harbour of giants, and a goddess who turns men into pigs.
Book Eleven B1+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: had + pp; so many; among; let + verb; tell + not to; might; as long as; each time; wish + were; the other
A prophecy, a mother who slips through his arms, and the shades of Troy.
Book Twelve B1+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: could be heard; was tied; whatever; either… or; rather than + verb; swore / fell; run out; hardly… when
A song nobody can resist, a monster, a whirlpool, and the cattle of the Sun.
Book Thirteen B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: was turned; can’t / might have + pp; question tags; as if + past; even though; otherwise; get used to + -ing; be about to
Home at last, and he can’t go home. A lie good enough to delight a goddess.
Book Fourteen B2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: let + verb; have + obj + pp; if only + past; likely to; no use + -ing; accused of; insist that; few; neither
The most loyal man on Ithaca, and a beggar who mustn’t give himself away.
Book Fifteen B2+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: needn’t have + pp; was to have + pp; get to; turn out; end up; no point + -ing; regardless of; supposing; only then did; I’d rather you + past
Sparta, Pylos, a fugitive prophet, and an ambush in the dark.
Book Sixteen B2+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: can’t be / must be; must have + pp; break down; get rid of; keep; whereas; not even; no way; plot to; by the time
After twenty years, in a swineherd’s hut.
Book Seventeen C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: what with; for all; far from + -ing; dare not; having been; barely; not so much as; whoever; not that
An old dog on a dung heap who knows his master after twenty years.
Book Eighteen C1 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Were he to…; no fewer than; hold back; for fear of + -ing; as happened; stands to reason; reckon; heed; as though to
A fight with Irus, and a warning to the one good suitor.
Book Nineteen C1+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: Under no circumstances + inversion; so as to; the very; small wonder; if anything; to some extent; would sooner… than; in the event of; notwithstanding; all the more
A test by the fire, and an old nurse who knows that scar.
Book Twenty C1+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: bore; rein in; try as he might; as if to; none other than; with the exception of; all they did was; Scarcely had… when; thereby; uncontrollably
Thunder from a clear sky, and one more day of insults.
Book Twenty-One C2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: Gone are the days when…; lo; to all intents and purposes; in lieu of; for want of; be wont to; short of; much less; the upshot; not least
Twelve axes, a bow nobody can string, and an old beggar who asks for a turn.
Book Twenty-Two C2 · PREMIUM
Grammar: owing to; red-handed; culpable; at bay; turn the tables; in the nick of time; plead; give no quarter; spare; gloat
Four men against a hundred, and the choice of whom to spare.
Book Twenty-Three C2+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: loath / loathe; reticent; discreet / discrete; pore over; home in on; penultimate; complement / compliment; bated breath; forgo; wreaked havoc
A secret that only a husband could know, rooted in an olive tree.
Book Twenty-Four C2+ · PREMIUM
Grammar: eponymous; epitome; amoral / immoral; bemused; prevaricate; refute; moot; decimate; irrespective of; enormity
An old father in his orchard, a last battle, and a goddess who says: stop.
Each book opens when the one before it is finished, or with Sophia’s seal from the end of the last one. Premium games need a password; once it has been entered, all the premium games stay open on that device.