Guess The Rest — 31 guessing games

Every game here works the same way: you get the smallest possible piece of something — a tenth of a second of a song, one frame of a film, a single street corner — and you name it. Ask for more and you keep playing, but the round is worth less. The whole score is in how little you needed.

Nothing to install, no account to make, and 11 of the 31 games work with the connection off. Pick one below.

Reading

• How to play — One mechanic runs all 31 games: you start with almost nothing, and every extra look costs points. Here is exactly how that works.
• How scoring works — The exact points curve: 1000 at the top of the ladder, about 38 per cent off per rung, up to 160 for speed and a streak multiplier to 2x.
• About Guess The Rest — Thirty-one guessing games behind one mechanic, built with no API keys and no accounts. What it is, why it exists and how it is put together.
• Where the content comes from — iTunes previews, Wikipedia images, YouTube embeds and Street View iframes — what each game uses, and how the material is handled.
• Games that work offline — Eleven of the 31 games are fully bundled and need no network at all, and a twelfth degrades gracefully.

All 31 games

• Guess the Song

  Name the song from as little of it as possible.

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• Guess the Movie

  Name the film from a single second of footage.

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• Guess the TV Show

  Name the series from the first second of its theme tune.

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• Guess the Country

  Look around a street and work out which country you're in.

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• Guess by Emoji

  Read a title spelled out in emoji.

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• Guess the Object

  Name an everyday object photographed far too close.

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• Guess the Animal

  Name the animal from a patch of fur, feather or scale.

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• Guess the Bird

  Name the bird from a patch of feathers.

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• Guess the Insect

  Name the insect from a close crop of it.

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• Guess the Plant

  Name the plant from a close crop of a leaf or a flower.

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• Guess the Landmark

  Name the landmark from one fragment of stone.

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• Guess the City

  Name the city from a piece of its skyline.

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• Guess the Country by Outline

  Name the country from the shape of it on a map.

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• Guess the Celebrity

  Name the famous face as it comes into focus.

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• Guess the Video Game

  Name the game from a few windows of its box art.

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• Guess the Board Game

  Name the board game from a few windows of the box.

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• Guess the Logo

  Name the brand from a few windows of its logo.

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• Guess the App

  Name the app as its icon comes into focus.

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• Guess the Car

  Name the car from its blurred silhouette.

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• Guess the Dish

  Name the dish from a close crop of the plate.

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• Guess the Sport

  Name the sport from a close crop of the action.

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• Guess the Recipe

  Name the dish from its ingredients.

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• Guess Who Said It

  Work out which famous person said it.

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• Guess the Film Line

  Name the film a line of dialogue comes from.

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• Guess the Opening Line

  Name the novel from its first sentence.

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• Guess the Plot

  Name the film from a deliberately flat plot summary.

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• Guess the Slogan

  Name the brand behind an advertising line.

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• Guess the Language

  Work out which language a sentence is written in.

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• Guess the Word

  Name the word from its definition.

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• Guess the Year

  Guess the year a film came out.

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• Guess the Capital

  Pick a country's capital city.

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