Movies puzzles and trivia.
From Casablanca to A24.
The Movies category runs the full span of film history, from Bruce Lee throwing the first punch to A24 rewriting what a studio can be. You'll spell your way through the grammar of the medium and the people who bent it.
Some themes lean technical. Roger Deakins and the way a cinematographer paints with light. Found Footage and the trick of making a shaky camera read as proof. Others are pure movie-lover territory: Inception folding a city over itself, the Mockumentary's straight-faced lie, the night of the Best Picture Mix-Up when the wrong envelope changed everything.
The game underneath stays simple. You remember where the letters hide, match the pairs, and spell the theme in as few flips as you can. Each theme is hand-picked because it says something about how movies get made or why they stick.
Whether you came up on NYU Film School lectures or just love sitting in the dark, there's a puzzle here for you. Start anywhere. The reel's already running.
Themes worth recognizing.
A sample of the 297 Moviesthemes in the game. Tap one to read the fact behind it.
- A24
- Akira
- Alien
- Blaxploitation
- Box-Office Bombs
- Buddy Comedies
- Daniel Day-Lewis
- Documentary Features
- Drive-In Theaters
- Frances McDormand
- French New Wave
- Hayao Miyazaki
- Iconic Props
- Indiana Jones
- Italian Neorealism
- Lawrence of Arabia
- Mann's Chinese Theatre
- Mockumentary
- Movie Masks
- Movie Musicals
- Movie Spaceships
- NYU Film School
- Palme d'Or Winners
- Paul Thomas Anderson
- Practical Effects
- Punxsutawney
- Scarface
- Sound Design
- Studio Logos
- The 80s
- The Exorcist
- The Power of the Dog
- The Silence of the Lambs
- The Zone of Interest
- Vengeance Most Fowl
- When Harry Met Sally
The kind of words you’ll spell.
A taste of the Movies vocabulary behind the puzzles.
- CAMEO
- EPICS
- FLICK
- FOCUS
- FRAME
- REELS
- SCORE
- BIOPIC
- CAMERA
- CINEMA
- DOUBLE
- EXTRAS
- MOVIES
- POSTER
- REMAKE
- SCRIPT
- SEQUEL
- SILENT
- STUDIO
- TICKET
- BACKLOT
- CASTING
- CLOSEUP
- EDITING
- FANTASY
- FEATURE
- FILMING
- FOOTAGE
Three facts to start.
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