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Music puzzles and trivia.

From the Beatles to Bad Bunny.

The Music category runs wide. Tchaikovsky sits a few flips away from Run-DMC, and Louis Armstrong shares a shelf with Earth, Wind & Fire. You flip cards, hold a grid of hidden letters in your head, and spell the theme in as few flips as you can manage.

Some of these you'll know cold: Highway to Hell, or a One Hit Wonders round that has you humming something you forgot you knew. Others send you somewhere quieter, a bebop side street, a Bright Eyes lyric, a name you half remember from a record someone once played.

Every puzzle here was put together by hand. Somebody picked the theme, set the letters, and often left a small fact at the end, the kind of thing you repeat to a friend later without meaning to.

It plays offline, doesn't track you, and asks for nothing after you buy it once. That's $2.99, or free if you don't mind the ads.

So put something on, or don't, and start flipping. The pairs are hiding in plain sight, and the theme comes together one memory at a time.

Themes worth recognizing.

A sample of the 298 Musicthemes in the game. Tap one to read the fact behind it.

The kind of words you’ll spell.

A taste of the Music vocabulary behind the puzzles.

  • BANJO
  • BLUES
  • CELLO
  • CHANT
  • CHOIR
  • CHORD
  • DRUMS
  • FLUTE
  • NOTES
  • OPERA
  • ORGAN
  • PIANO
  • REMIX
  • TEMPO
  • TENOR
  • VOCAL
  • ANTHEM
  • CHORUS
  • CYMBAL
  • ENCORE
  • GOSPEL
  • GUITAR
  • LYRICS
  • MELODY
  • OCTAVE
  • RECORD
  • REGGAE
  • RHYTHM

Three facts to start.

A Tribe Called Quest

Q-Tip built Tribe’s 1991 *The Low End Theory* around jazz legend Ron Carter’s live upright bass. The album stripped hip-hop to the bone.

Abbey Road

The *Abbey Road* cover took about 10 minutes, a photographer on a ladder shooting six frames as the band crossed the street. McCartney’s bare feet fed the “Paul is dead” rumor. The crossing is now a protected landmark.

Air Guitar

The Air Guitar World Championships have run in Oulu, Finland since 1996 under the motto “Make Air Not War”. Judges score technique, stage presence and “airness”. The winner takes home a real guitar.

Read all 80 MusicFacts →

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