Play the Shahnameh

Shahnameh Games

Quizzes and interactive stories drawn from the poem and its woodcut art. No sign-up: just play.

The banners of the kings and Pahlevans, with the couplets that describe them

Quiz · Coming soonShah or Pahlevan?

King or champion? Sort the poem’s great figures

A woodcut panel from the Illustrated Poem: name its story

Quiz · Coming soonWho Speaks These Lines?

A couplet from the poem: who is speaking?

Quiz · Coming soonIran or Turan?

Which side does each warrior fight for?

Interactive story · Coming soonRostam Chooses Rakhsh

Play the moment Rostam finds his horse, told in the poem’s own couplets