Bandle is a daily song quiz in which the band joins in one part at a time. In one day's round, drums and bass played first, then electric guitar, strings, backing vocals and a voice cover arrived in turn, with a clue as the sixth and last step. The screen also gives the year of release, the YouTube view count and a par for the song, and a guess shown in orange means you have the right artist. Naming a hit from its rhythm section alone is the moment people chase.
Every game here is about hearing music and putting a name to it. The two that also add instruments layer by layer lead the list. After them come games that stretch a short clip of the finished recording, and last are ones that reach the same answer through a note chart, music video stills, lyrics or a crossword.
Reveals the song by time rather than by instrument: you hear a moment of the finished recording, and the clip gets longer after each wrong answer across six tries, so a voice or a riff is what gives it away.
Plays a sliver of the song's opening and adds one second whenever you pass or miss. Where Bandle isolates parts of the arrangement, here everything plays at once, but only for a moment.
Sticks to 1990s tracks, heard from the first seconds or from midway through with its Hook option, a good match for Bandle players who lean on the release year to narrow down a decade.
Begins with a sample only 0.1 seconds long that grows after every miss, sorted into playlists such as rock and EDM, a far thinner first taste than a Bandle drum track.
Plays five tracks daily from 100-millisecond clips that lengthen as you miss, and like Bandle it rewards needing less of the song, since fewer extensions mean a higher score.
Shows the music instead of layering it: a note highway like the ones in Guitar Hero rolls by and you name the song from it, allowing six tries, and every miss buys two more seconds of the chart.
Identifies a song through its music video rather than its sound, where each miss adds another still, six at most, a visual version of Bandle's step-by-step reveal.
Builds the song up line by line instead of instrument by instrument: you read one lyric, and every miss or skip brings in the following line, which favors people who remember words more than arrangements.
Plays one song a day and asks for its artist, title and year, three answers instead of one, building on the release year that Bandle already puts on screen as a clue.
Each clue in this themed crossword plays a clip of a song, and identifying the act or the title fills the grid, a change of pace for Bandle players who like listening but want a puzzle wrapped around it.
It means the song you typed is wrong but its artist is right, so the answer is another track by the same act. Put that together with the release year and YouTube view count the game shows, and a large catalog can shrink to a few likely hits before the vocals come in.
The menu lists Quick Play, the past seven days, a multiplayer mode and a replay option next to the daily song, and the site points to the Bandle app for over 2,000 songs.
