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.
Ready 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 — over 400 cached shows, ten 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.