How to play

Find the hidden film. It's one of the 1,500 most-rated English-language movies on IMDb, so it's a film you have probably heard of. Name any film on that list, and its ticket shows what it has in common with the hidden one.

Two ways to play

Reading a ticket

• Green: a match: the same year or exact genres, or a director, writer, cast member or composer in common.
• Gold: close: within 5 years, 100 places in popularity, 0.3 stars or 10 minutes, or at least one genre or country in common. It won't tell you which one.
• ▲ newer, ▼ shorter and so on describe the hidden film. "2010 ▲ newer" means it came out after 2010. On Popularity, "▲ higher" means more people have rated it on IMDb (#1 is the most rated). Rating is the IMDb star rating, and gold means within 0.3.
• Made in is the country, or countries, that produced the film. It's not where the story is set or where it was shot. Slumdog Millionaire is set in India but made in the UK.
• Cast means the top six billed actors.

What you know

The bar at the top keeps everything your guesses have proved so far: year and rank ranges, genres in and out, and names confirmed. Tap Details to see ruled-out items too.

Hints: after 5 guesses, a gold button opens a menu of clues:

• Age rating
• Oscars
• Setting
• What it's based on
• Title (first letter and word count)
• A character
• A name you haven't found yet

Each clue can be used once, and only if that film has it. Every clue costs a guess. You can't use one on your last guess. A win that used clues is marked 🎟️.

The first time you guess each day, the page asks this site's server for a file called /played so the day's players can be counted. No cookie, no identifier, nothing about your game.

🎟️ Pick a clue

Using a clue uses one of your guesses. You'll have 4 left after it.

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