Name That Book

Read the verse and choose which book of the Bible it belongs to.

Name That Book — Free Online Bible Game

Read a verse and pick the book of the Bible it belongs to. Test your knowledge of Scripture.

Free to play, no sign-up required — and free to embed on your own website.

Name That Book shows you a verse and asks which of the sixty-six books it comes from. It is a gentler challenge than naming the exact chapter and verse, and it rewards a feel for how each writer sounds — the difference between the cadence of a Psalm, a proverb and a Pauline letter.

How to play Name That Book

  1. A short King James Version verse appears on screen.
  2. Four books of the Bible are offered as options — the real one plus three others drawn from the full sixty-six-book canon.
  3. Choose the book you think the verse is from.
  4. Ten verses make a round, with your score shown at the end.

What this game teaches

The voice of each book. Over a few rounds you start recognising the compressed parallelism of Proverbs, the first-person lament of the Psalms, the narrative of the Gospels and the argument of the epistles — which is genuinely useful for reading Scripture in context rather than as isolated lines.

Who Name That Book is for

Teens and adults building a mental map of the Bible, new believers learning their way around it, and Bible study groups wanting something less intimidating than a chapter-and-verse quiz.

Add This Game to Your Website

Have a blog, ministry, or church website? Embed Name That Book for free — it works anywhere. Just copy the code and paste it into any page.

Name That Book — frequently asked questions

Does the game cover all 66 books?
The wrong options are drawn from the complete sixty-six-book canon, Genesis to Revelation. The correct answers come from the books represented among the verses short enough to use, which spans 40 of them.
How is this different from Guess the Verse?
Guess the Verse asks for the exact reference, chapter and verse included. Name That Book asks only for the book, so it is the better starting point — and a good way to warm up before trying the harder one.
Is Name That Book too hard for children?
It suits older children who already know the books of the Bible. For younger players, Old or New Testament is the easier version of the same skill, and the Bible Quiz for Kids is easier still.

More Bible Games

Bible Trivia QuizBible Quiz for KidsGuess the VerseComplete the VerseOld or New Testament?Bible True or False

All ten games live on the free Bible games page. If you would rather be tested on Scripture knowledge directly, try the Bible quiz, or the Bible quiz for kids for younger players. Every verse used across these games is King James Version, and you can draw one at any time from the random Bible verse generator.