Cinematrix
vulture.com · Movies & TV
Vulture's version of the same idea: every square needs a film that answers the clue above it and the clue beside it, and tapping a clue brings up headshots and details, much like Movie Grid's clickable names.
Games like Movie Grid
Movie Grid, the work of Alex Nunan and Sam Shulman, is a 3x3 board where each square sits under one clue and beside another. Clues mix genres, title rules such as a name of three or more words, and actors like Jamie Foxx, and you need a film that satisfies both. You get nine picks in total, and each one counts whether it lands or not; a poster appears when it does. A film can fill only one square, so the real fun is finding the title that fits the awkward corner.
The first four picks keep films at the center and ask for answers that satisfy two conditions together. Grids on other subjects follow, using the same row-and-column logic for anime, sports, Pokémon and plain words, and the list closes with two actor-chain games that draw on the same film knowledge in a different shape.
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13 games like Movie Grid
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Silver Screen Grid
silverscreengrid.com · Movies & TV
Only six cells instead of nine, each sitting where two kinds of clue meet, such as a director and a decade, so the hunt for an intersecting film is the same while a five-star reserve replaces the guess count.
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Movie Snake
moviesnake.io · Movies & TV
Bends the grid into a line: nine linked panels, each needing a film that satisfies the clues on either side, for example a star plus a span of release years, with twelve picks and higher scores for less obvious titles.
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Cast Six
castsix.com · Movies & TV
Asks the Movie Grid question in reverse: six given films must each go under one of six labels, a genre or a star for instance, and because most films could fit more than one, a single arrangement works, found within three checks.
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Anidoku
anidoku.moe · Movies & TV
The same nine-cell format for anime: each title has to fit its row category and its column category, such as a genre, a voice actor or a theme, and no title may be used twice.
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AnimeGrids
animegrids.app · Movies & TV
Another anime board in Movie Grid's shape, where every square needs a series matching a row clue and a column clue, like a decade or manga source, and uncommon answers earn a better rarity rating.
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Immaculate Grid: Baseball
Sports Reference · sports-reference.com · Sports
Movie Grid's nine-guess structure applied to MLB players, with every square pairing a team or stat across the top with one down the side, and an obscure correct name scores better for rarity.
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Immaculate Grid: Men's Basketball
Sports Reference · sports-reference.com · Sports
The NBA edition: franchises cross with stat categories over nine squares, again with nine guesses, so it plays much like Movie Grid for anyone who knows basketball rosters better than filmographies.
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Pokedoku
Doku Games · pokedoku.com · Gaming
Swaps films for Pokémon, where each cell pairs something like a type with a region; you still get nine guesses, but the rarity score rewards picks fewer people made, and a lower number wins.
Anything Grid
anythinggrid.com · Trivia
Opens the format to any subject at all: each of the nine cells takes whatever answer fits both of its categories, and the more niche your correct answer, the better it scores.
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Word Grid
wordgrid.clevergoat.com · Words
Keeps the title-rule side of Movie Grid, where a required letter decides what fits: each cell needs a word meeting its row rule and column rule, such as starting with R, and rare answers keep the score low.
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Six Degrees
categorycinema.com · Movies & TV
Puts the same actor and film knowledge into a chain instead of a board: you travel between two performers via movies they made together, choosing a film and then one of its co-stars at each step, and shorter routes score more.
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Link the Flick
linktheflick.com · Movies & TV
Begins with the day's film and asks you to keep adding movies linked by shared actors for as long as you can, a looser, open-ended companion to Movie Grid's nine fixed squares.
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Questions
Does a wrong answer use up a guess in Movie Grid?
Yes. You have nine guesses for the nine squares, and every film you enter counts against them whether or not it fits. Titles come from a dropdown sorted by popularity and must match exactly, punctuation included, so it pays to choose carefully. A correct answer shows the film's poster in its square.
Do films an actor directed count in Movie Grid?
No. When a clue is just a person's name, the films that person directed do not count for that square. Two more house rules are worth knowing: a film can be used only once in the grid, and a hyphenated word counts as a single word whenever a clue is about the number of words in a title.
What else is on the Movie Grid site?
Beyond the daily grid, the menu lists Movie Snake, Movie Pyramid, Movie Globe, Movie Reveal, a TV Grid, Off Script and Sports Reveal, plus Classic and Deep Cut boards, yesterday's puzzle and an archive. Elsewhere, Cinematrix and Silver Screen Grid are the nearest film grids to try next.
