Box Office Game shows the US domestic chart for one past weekend, such as November 8, 1996, with the titles of the top five films hidden. Each row keeps its rank, its weekend and total gross, its distributor and whether it is new, and you type titles to fill the chart. When a row stumps you, points buy a tagline, genres, plot, director, actors, budget or final gross. Ten wrong guesses end the game, as does naming all five. Reading a forgotten weekend from its numbers alone is a pleasure particular to this game.
Picks lean on the same mix of film knowledge and hint spending. Games that trade points for facts about a hidden movie or rank films by gross come first, followed by guessers that compare grosses, studios and casts with each try, then games built on taglines, plot keywords and actor filmographies.
Nearest in spirit: a bank of 200 points pays to uncover details of a mystery movie, from cast and director to release year and gross, with five attempts to identify it, the same points-for-hints trade each row here offers.
Puts grosses at the center: five films with something in common, one year's releases for instance, are ranked twice, once by money taken at the box office and once by critics' scores, with a new theme every night.
Draws only from the biggest American box office hits since 1948: you type words to uncover a blanked-out synopsis, cast list and director, and related words count too, so a chart-topper surfaces from its own description.
Gives ten tries at a mystery film, and every guess turns over tiles comparing gross, studio, director, cast, genre, year, critic score and rating, each judged exact, close or wrong, so chart figures become clues.
Another ten-try film hunt, with every guess checked on gross plus IMDb score, rating, year, genres, director and a pair of cast members, a good drill in the numbers that sit beside each hidden title.
Lets you choose guesses from a list rather than typing, and checks each against the hidden movie on release year, critic score, runtime, age rating and genre, with arrows pointing higher or lower.
Starts a hidden movie's profile card with just its runtime and genre, then adds the plot, cast, director and release date as your six guesses are used up, much like opening hints on a Box Office row.
Works through as many as five clues toward a movie or series, and stopping early earns more, the same reward for restraint that keeps you from opening every Box Office hint; older puzzles stay playable.
Shows only a film's tagline and its release year, and you choose the right title from a list, so the tagline hint that costs 40 points in Box Office Game becomes the entire puzzle.
Reveals a movie's plot keywords one at a time, nine at most, and rewards naming it while using as few as you can, a cheaper cousin of paying 180 points for the plot on a Box Office row.
Starts from the cast, listing each actor with their age when the film came out, and gives up the year, genre and director as you guess, the same actor hints Box Office Game sells for 30 to 40 points.
Linked from Box Office Game's own page, it works backward from a career: a featured actor's film list shows each movie's year, genre and IMDb score but hides the titles, and each co-star you name fills in the films you share.
The television version, also linked from Box Office Game: you identify an actor from a run of series credits that list years, genres and episode totals, with show names withheld until you name fellow cast members.
Each of the five hidden films starts at 200 points, and every hint you open lowers that: genres, budget and final gross cost 5 each, the director and first actor 40, the plot 180, and revealing everything costs the full 200. You may make ten wrong guesses, and the misses you have left are shown as bonus points.
Film details and search come from TMDb, and the weekend box office figures come from the-numbers. The site credits the idea to the Blank Check Podcast and links to Actorle, Actorle.tv and Moviedle as other daily movie games, all three of which appear on this list.
Top Billing ranks five films by gross and then by critic score, Bingewatcher draws only from the biggest US hits since 1948, and Spotle Movies and Moviexto both include box office among the details they compare with each guess. Movie Reveal lets you buy a film's gross as one of its paid hints.
