Framed, CineNerdle, Actorle and more: seven guessing games for film and TV fans that are running in October 2026, and who each one suits.
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Wordle showed how well a small puzzle a day works: one task, a few minutes, a result to share. Film and TV fans now have a whole range of games like it. Can you recognise The Matrix from a single still? Do you know which five films topped the US box office on an August weekend in 2010? We checked in October 2026 which games are still running. These seven are. They are sorted by type of puzzle, not ranked.
Daily, six guesses, in the browser. You see a still from a film and guess the title. Get it wrong and the next frame appears; after six, the game is over. The first frame is usually the hardest: a hallway, a hand, a patch of landscape. Besides the classic version there are variants with a single frame, with the poster or with the title card.
Good for: anyone who remembers films by their images. Play it: framed.wtf
Weekly, ten guesses, in the browser. The Framed idea for TV, from the same team: you guess a series from stills. A new puzzle comes once a week, and in return you get ten guesses instead of six.
Good for: series fans for whom one puzzle a week is enough. Play it: episode.wtf
Daily, 15 swaps, in the browser. A grid of 16 tiles with names, characters, places and keywords. Five films are hidden in it: four tiles belong to each film, and you swap tiles until every group sits in a row or column. The fifth film is hidden, its tiles come from the other four groups. There are more daily puzzles too, such as guessing a film from its reviews, and a battle mode against other players.
Good for: anyone who likes thinking around corners. Play it: cinenerdle.app
Daily, seven questions, two to three minutes. In the interest of openness: this is our own game. Every day there is a theme, such as characters and their trademarks, and seven keywords from films and series. For each keyword, terms fly past one after another, and you tap “Match!” when one belongs. The faster you are, the more points you get; a wrong tap costs 100. The new quiz arrives at midnight your local time, you share your result as a grid of squares like Wordle, and if you get at least three hits without a wrong tap on one question, you win a trophy.
Good for: anyone who would rather react fast than ponder. Play it: Quiz of the day
Daily, in the browser and as an iPhone app. You are looking for an actor. You see their filmography, but without titles: only year, genres and IMDb rating. Every name you guess reveals the films that person was also in, and a colour hint shows how close you are on age. The sister site Moviedle turns this around: there you look for a film based on its hidden cast, director, genres and release year.
Good for: anyone who knows the cast of every film by heart. Play it: actorle.com
Daily, ten wrong guesses, in the browser. You get a weekend from US box office history and have to name the five highest-grossing films of that weekend. You can see the gross, the distributor and the previous week's rank. Further hints such as director, cast or plot can be revealed, but they cost points. The idea comes from the American film podcast Blank Check.
Good for: anyone who still knows what was in cinemas when. Play it: boxofficega.me
Daily or endless, in the browser. You get keywords from the plot and have to guess the film. Every wrong guess costs a life, and when they are all gone, the round ends. Besides the daily challenge you can keep playing as long as you like. This one also comes from the team behind Framed.
Good for: anyone who remembers stories better than images. Play it: plotwords.com
How the quiz of the day works in detail, with three sample questions to try, is in
Yes, several. Closest to the original is Framed: one puzzle a day, six guesses, a result to share.
All the games listed here can be played for free in the browser. Some are funded by ads or offer an ad-free paid version.
Yes. Episode shows stills from a series, with a new one each week. In Couchmood's quiz of the day, films and series are mixed.