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finish the titlethe ariana grande song title quiz
a title with one word taken out of it, and three seconds of the record to work out which word. type it in and press check.
- the clip plays in full. nothing is muted, cut or filtered — the record is the clue, not the puzzle. play it as many times as you like; it costs nothing.
- one underscore per letter, so the length of the word is part of what you are given.
- one free letter a round if you want it. it costs no life, but it marks the round yellow on the share card.
- three lives. a wrong answer shows you the title and moves on; the run ends when the third one goes.
- the blank is always a word worth knowing — never “the”, and never a word printed somewhere else in the same title, which would put the answer next to its own gap.
looking through the titles…
49 songs qualify: they need a preview to hear and a title with a word that can be fairly hidden, which rules out the one-word titles and a handful whose every candidate repeats. no lyrics appear anywhere in this game, and that is why the word comes out of the title rather than out of the vocal — muting a word means holding a lyric transcript and word-level timings for it, which this site will not do. a title is an identifier, a fact about a record on the same footing as its tracklist. the clips are played from apple’s own preview urls, untouched, and never downloaded or cut on our side; the sleeves appear only after the answer, beside a link to the song. your best score is stored in your browser.
how to play finish the title
- one word is removed from an ariana grande song title and you have to supply it.
- three seconds of the actual record plays as the clue — nothing is muted or altered.
- type your answer; near-misses on spelling, case and punctuation are accepted.
- three lives. every round reveals the full title with a link out to the track.
what it actually is
this game started as a lyrics game and could not be built as one. a single line with a word blanked is about the ceiling of defensible unlicensed lyric use, and the version where the audio is muted over the missing word — which would have been the better game — needs the isolated stem, which nobody outside the label has.
so it became a title game instead, and it is better for the constraint. a title is a fact about a recording rather than a piece of licensed text, which means the record can play untouched underneath rather than being cut around a gap. no lyric appears anywhere in this game at any point.
tips
- the short titles are the hard ones. a missing word from a two-word title is half the information gone.
- listen for the era before you commit — the clip is only three seconds, but three seconds of production narrows the pool a long way.
questions
how do you play finish the title?
a word is taken out of an ariana grande song title and you type it back in, with three seconds of the record playing as a clue. you have three lives.
does the game show lyrics?
no, none. it is built entirely on song titles, which are facts about recordings rather than licensed text — that is the whole reason it could be built at all.
is the audio edited?
no. the clip is an official preview playing untouched. nothing is muted, cut or reassembled.
is it free?
yes, entirely. no account, no sign-up, no install and no payment. nothing is collected — scores and streaks live in your own browser and go no further.
does it work on a phone?
yes. every game here is built for a phone first, and the ones that use audio work over a normal mobile connection because the clips are short official previews rather than files being downloaded.