Daily guess-the-artist game
Read the signals. Name the artist.
One mystery artist, three calls. The portrait sharpens after a miss, while sound, origin, era, act and fame narrow the field. Open only the clues you need. Free play keeps going after the daily.
- Attempts
- 3
- Signals
- 5
- Reset
- 00:00 UTC
- Mode
- Daily + Free
- How do I play Riff?
- Name the mystery artist in three guesses. Open any of the five clues (sound and era, origin, the act, a blurred album cover, a signature song) whenever you want; fewer opened clues is the bigger brag. Every wrong guess also answers back: whether your guess shares the genre, country, decade, act type and fame level with the answer.
- What do the five squares after each guess mean?
- They compare your guess to the answer across sound, origin, era, act and fame. Green means a match, yellow means overlapping genres, and the arrows on era and fame point toward the answer, older or newer, bigger or smaller.
- Where do the artists come from?
- From the Riffiter catalog of hundreds of thousands of rated albums. Answers are well-known enough to be guessable, and no artist repeats for months.
- When does a new round start?
- Midnight UTC, every day. Everyone plays the same artist on the same day.
- Is Riff like Wordle?
- It has the same shape as Wordle. One puzzle a day, the same answer for everyone, and a result grid you can paste without spoiling it. The guessing works differently: instead of letters, every wrong guess tells you how close you were on genre, country, decade, act type and fame.