About Movie Sift
Every day there's one hidden rule about movies, something like “directed by Christopher Nolan” or “has an animal in the title”. You never see the rule. You guess movies one at a time and the board tells you whether each one fits. Compare the YES movies with the NO movies and the pattern starts to show.
It's less about remembering facts and more about spotting what a set of movies has in common. A new puzzle opens every day, and you don't need an account to play.
How to play
The Daily
Each day has one hidden rule about movies, like “movies starring Tom Hanks” or “movies with a color in the title”. You don't get to see it.
Type any movie. It lands under YES if it fits the rule and under NO if it doesn't. You start with one free YES example.
Find 5 movies that fit and the puzzle is solved. The fewer picks you need, the more stars you get.
- ★★★★★Perfect5 picks, all YES
- ★★★★Great6 to 8 picks
- ★★★Good9 to 13 picks
- ★★Solid14 to 20 picks
- ★Solved21 picks or more
Stuck?
There are three hints: another movie that fits, how many movies fit, and what kind of rule it is. Each hint costs 1 star.
After 5 picks you can give up to see the rule. That ends the day's puzzle with no stars.
The Lineup
Sixteen movies, four hidden rules. Choose the 4 movies you think share a rule, then press Submit. Every movie fits exactly one group, so a movie that looks like it belongs in two places only belongs in one.
Four mistakes ends the game and shows the answers.
One puzzle a day
Both games change at midnight UTC. Only today's puzzles are open, so everyone is working on the same ones.
What the site counts
Movie Sift counts how its puzzles get played: when a puzzle is started, how it ends, which movies are guessed and which hints are shown. That is how we learn which puzzles work.
The counts are not tied to you. They hold no name, no account, no cookie, no device id and no network address.