Read the cultural clues, pin the right culture on the map, and learn why no culture is a monolith.
Each round shows either a single custom, a festival, dish, garment or tradition, or a set of layered context clues. Pick the culture it belongs to by tapping its pin on the schematic world map. Every answer reveals a myth-bust card that corrects a widespread stereotype with the real, more varied picture.
Folkways is a trivia game about world cultures and the stereotypes that surround them, building cultural awareness.
Identifying a culture from a custom, festival, dish or garment is cultural recognition — and *folkways* is the sociological term for exactly these informal, everyday conventions.
Offering either a single custom or layered context clues is the original structure.
The single-clue rounds are the honest ones. Individual customs travel and converge, so one dish rarely identifies a culture, and it is the combination that does — which is the point the layered rounds make by being easier.
Folkways is an original free browser trivia game about world cultures and the stereotypes that surround them. It pairs quick matching with short factual corrections so each round teaches something real.