We've shipped nine games about TV shows and films. All free, all playable without creating an account, and ad-free. Here's what they are — and above all what each one is for, because three of them look like nothing else out there.
Three daily challenges, the same for everyone
The principle is Wordle's: one puzzle a day, identical for every player, flipping over at midnight UTC. We have three.
- The Daily — a mystery show, six guesses. Each miss reveals a different kind of clue: year and genres, then a redacted synopsis, episode titles, a blurred poster, a still from the show.
- The Grid — a three-by-three square. Each cell wants a show that satisfies both its row and its column: "Animation" crossed with "100 episodes or more", say.
- The Character — a character to find in eight guesses, each attempt comparing six attributes against the answer.
All three share as a square of emoji, without giving the answer away. And the Watchdle keeps a win streak if you have an account — The Character shares it: playing either one is enough.
Three arcade games, to play on loop
- Higher or lower — two shows, say which has more episodes. The counts come from our own database, not an estimate.
- Guess the year — ten posters, ten sliders to place. 100 points for an exact year, 10 fewer per year off.
- Put them in order — five titles from one saga to re-sort, chronologically or by release.
And three that only exist because we track your progress
This is where it gets interesting. The spoiler-free quiz builds its questions from the episodes you have actually checked off: both the questions and the wrong answers can only come from what you've already watched. The title of an episode you haven't seen cannot appear, not even as a decoy — a title alone is sometimes enough to ruin a twist.
Track Stranger Things on WatchTrailReady for the return? starts from your shows with an episode coming up and drills you on exactly what matters. And Which character are you? offers five hand-written tests: Stranger Things, Game of Thrones, Breaking Bad, Friends and One Piece, Friends and One Piece.
Why it's free
WatchTrail is a free show and film tracker, born out of TV Time shutting down. The games aren't a paid funnel: they run on data we already hold — hundreds of cached shows and films, more than twenty extended universes verified title by title — and they exist to introduce the rest.
If you want to see what full tracking looks like, start with a show you know by heart: Breaking Bad and its 62 episodes, or Game of Thrones and its 73. And if you're coming from TV Time, importing your history is already handled.