A mashup built from Wikipedia's List of proverbial phrases — plus a hand-assembled list of real, named aphorisms, since Wikipedia doesn't actually have one. Guess which is which, then see where the two traditions genuinely overlap and where the source list's own taxonomy gets fuzzy.
12 rounds. Each line is either an anonymous proverbial phrase pulled straight from Wikipedia, or a real aphorism with a named author. Tap which you think it is.
These lines sit on Wikipedia's proverb list with no author named — anonymous folk wisdom, as far as that page is concerned. Each one is also a well-documented aphorism with a specific author and a specific book. The proverb wore the wording smooth; the paper trail never actually vanished.
These are still on the same "proverbial phrases" list — but each entry names its own author, right there in the text. If a proverb is supposed to be the one without a byline, these are the discrepancies.
Anonymous. Communal. Worn smooth by oral repetition until no one remembers — or particularly cares — who said it first. Its authority comes from being widely repeated, not from who coined it.
Authored. Literary. First appears in a specific written text by a specific named person, and typically stays attributed even as it circulates. Often built to need a second read — Hippocrates coined the term for compressed medical maxims that require interpretation.
"A proverb is usually defined, an instructive sentence, or common and pithy saying, in which more is generally designed than expressed, famous for its peculiarity or elegance, and therefore adopted by the learned as well as the vulgar, by which it is distinguished from counterfeits which want such authority." John Ray, A Compleat Collection of English Proverbs, 1768
The two categories describe different relationships to authorship, not different kinds of wisdom. A line can start as one and end as the other: Francis Bacon wrote a specific Latin sentence about knowledge and power in 1597, and two hundred years of repetition sanded it down into unsigned folklore. Wikipedia's own "proverbial phrases" list, sourced straight off this page, is full of exactly that transition already in progress — some entries fully worn smooth, some still carrying the author's name mid-sand.
There is, notably, no equivalent "List of aphorisms" on Wikipedia to build the other half of this game from — checked directly, it doesn't exist. That's not an accident of Wikipedia coverage so much as a structural fact about the form: aphorisms belong to named authors and specific books, so there's no single oral tradition to catalog the way there is for proverbs. You'd have to assemble one from forty different collections. This game did.