Tune Guess guide

Goal

Guess the daily song across 4 genre rounds — Rock, Hip Hop, EDM, and Pop. Identify each song from as short an audio snippet as possible for the best score.

How to play

• Press Play to hear the snippet. The seven tiers run 0.25s, 0.5s, 1s, 2s, 4s, 8s, 15s, so the first clip is a fraction of a second and the last is a full fifteen.
• Search by song title or artist and pick from the suggestions, or type your own guess. Skip to hear the next-longer snippet.
• Each wrong guess or skip advances you one of 7 tiers. Guess right sooner for a lower (better) score.
• Once you guess correctly or run out of tiers, the round ends and the next begins.

Scoring

A solved round scores the tier you guessed it on (1-7). A failed round scores 8. Your total is the sum across all 4 rounds — a perfect game is 4, the worst is 32, and lower is always better.

Each genre also keeps its own streak, so Rock, Hip Hop, EDM and Pop track your consistency separately.

Spending your tiers

• A skip and a wrong guess cost exactly the same - one tier - so there is no reason to guess at random. If you have nothing, skip and keep the attempt.
• The opening snippet is usually an intro rather than a hook, so the first tier is the hardest by design. Instrumentation and production style often place the era before the melody arrives.
• Because the score is the tier you solved on, a round you are never going to get is worth skipping through quickly rather than agonising over - the cost is the same either way.

Across the four rounds

The four genre rounds are scored independently and summed, so a strong round genuinely offsets a weak one. A failed round costs eight against a perfect one at one, which means solving even at a late tier is worth far more than giving up on a genre you know less well.

Reset

The same four songs for every player each day, resetting at midnight Melbourne time.