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Ariana Grande at the MTV Europe Music Awards in 2014

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seven games, no account

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a daily song puzzle, three audio quizzes, a personality test that repaints the site, and a ranker that sorts your favourites properly rather than by vibes.

the short answer

there are seven, all free and all playable in the browser with no account: moondle (a daily song puzzle), guess the song, guess the producer, finish the title, higher or lower, which era are you, and the ranker. start with moondle — everybody gets the same song each day, so it is the one worth arguing about.

the daily one

moondle — one song a day, six guesses, and a hint after every wrong one: year, then era, then album, then producer, then a clip. everyone in the world gets the same song, which is the entire reason a daily puzzle is worth playing rather than an endless one. about two minutes.

the audio quizzes

  • guess the song — a few seconds of a preview and four titles, all from the same era so you cannot win it by guessing the decade. easy stays on the hits; hard drops to two seconds of a deep cut.
  • guess the producer — the song is right there. the question is who made it. four names, one credited, three lives.
  • finish the title — one word removed from a title, and three seconds of the record to work out which. nothing is muted and no lyric appears anywhere, which is the entire reason this one is legal to build.

the ones without audio

  • which era are you — eight questions, none of them about music, and the answer repaints this whole site in your era on the spot.
  • higher or lower — two songs, one question: which charted better. the winner carries forward, so the number you just learned is the number you need next.
  • the ranker — this one or that one, sixty-odd times, and you get your actual top twenty. it is a merge sort with you as the comparator, which is why the result is a real ranking rather than a list you assembled in the order things occurred to you.

why there are no lyric quizzes

no account, no email, nothing stored

none of them ask you to sign in and none of them collect anything. scores and streaks live in your own browser. every game ends on the record itself — with links out to spotify, apple music and youtube — because the point of a music quiz is to send you back to the music.

questions people ask

  1. is there an ariana grande wordle?

    moondle is the closest thing — one song a day, six guesses, with a hint after each wrong answer. everybody gets the same song each day.

  2. are these ariana grande quizzes free?

    yes, all seven, with no account and no email required. nothing is collected and scores stay in your own browser.

  3. which ariana grande era am i?

    the era quiz answers that in eight questions, none of them about music — and it repaints the entire site in your era when you finish.

  4. why are there no lyric quizzes?

    lyrics are a separate copyright held by publishers. these games are built on titles, credits and chart data instead, all of which are facts about records rather than the records themselves.

  5. do the quizzes play music?

    four of them use short official preview clips. the other three — the era quiz, higher or lower and the ranker — need no audio at all.

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