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Guess today's artist
One mystery artist a day, five clues, three guesses. Their photo starts pixelated and sharpens with every miss; open clues if you need them — fewer is braver — and every wrong guess tells you how close you were on sound, origin, era, act and fame. Done with the daily? Free play runs forever, deep cuts included.
How it works
- 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.