Games like
Games like Framed, for people who know their films and shows.
Framed asks you to name a film from a handful of stills. Huezle asks a stranger question about the same knowledge: name the show from how its episodes were rated, or the actor from the shape of a career.
What Framed is
Framed is a daily movie-guessing game played on its website. Each day there is one film, the same for everybody, and you see a single still from it. Every wrong guess or skip reveals another frame, up to six, so the earlier you name it the better. The share shows how many frames you needed without naming the film.
It works because people remember more about films than they realise: a colour grade, a costume, the way a scene is lit.
What to look for in a game like it
- Room for a fan’s knowledge. Knowing a genre or an era should actually help.
- Recognition over trivia. The fun is spotting something sooner than you thought you could.
- The same puzzle for everybody, once a day.
How Huezle is similar, and different
Huezle is a daily puzzle with the same strip for everybody, and two of its categories are about the screen. In TV Shows a strip is one season, one band per episode, coloured by IMDb rating from low rated to high rated. In Movies a strip is one director’s or actor’s career, one band per film in release order, coloured the same way.
The difference is that Huezle never shows a frame of anything. There are no images and no titles, only a pattern of ratings, and you choose between four answers in one try. What it rewards is a sense of shape: which season had the famous finale, which career had its best run early.
Four strips for film and TV fans
- Low rated
- Average
- High rated
A season that builds is easy to see: this one finishes on its brightest band. Eight bands is a clue in itself, a streaming-length season rather than a network one.
- Low rated
- Average
- High rated
This season averages 9.3. The scale is built around famous television, where the typical episode is 8.4, so that is about as bright as a strip gets.
- Low rated
- Average
- High rated
A steady season with one dark band late on, then a strong close. A dip just before a finale is the kind of detail a fan remembers and a stranger does not.
- Panned
- Ordinary
- Acclaimed
An actor’s strip counts starring roles, top three billed, in films with at least 5,000 IMDb votes, up to the 40 most-voted. Tom Hanks reaches that cap, which is why his strip starts in 1988, and he averages 7.3. The bright stretch near the start is a run most film fans could name.
Side by side
| Framed | Huezle | |
|---|---|---|
| The clue | Still frames from a film | A strip of ratings |
| Guesses | Up to six, one more frame each time | One pick from four answers |
| What it rewards | Visual memory of films | Knowing how shows and careers went |
For more, see the best TV seasons of all time and how great directors’ careers rise and fall, or the TV Shows and Movies categories. The daily puzzle is free.
Try naming a show from its ratings alone.
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What are some games like Framed?
Other daily film and TV puzzles that reward a fan’s memory. Huezle draws TV seasons and film careers as strips of colour and asks you to choose which of four answers made the strip.
How many guesses do you get in Framed?
Six. Each wrong guess or skip reveals another frame from the film.
Does Huezle show film stills or posters?
No. Every strip is drawn from numbers, such as each episode’s IMDb rating, so there are no images and no titles until you answer.
More guides
- The best TV seasons of all time, episode by episode.The highest-rated TV seasons by average IMDb user rating, one band per episode: Attack on Titan, Game of Thrones, True Detective, and finales that spiked.
- How great directors’ careers rise and fall, film by film.Directors’ careers drawn one band per film, coloured by IMDb user rating: most peak early, a few peak late, and a handful never have a bad night.
- Games like Connections, and one where the pattern is a colour.Like NYT Connections? What makes it work, what to look for in another daily puzzle, and Huezle, where you spot the pattern in a strip of colour made from real data.
- Games like Worldle and Globle, for people who think in maps.Like Worldle or Globle? How geography dailies work, what to look for in another one, and Huezle, where the climates of 193 cities are drawn as strips of colour.
Now try naming one yourself.
Huezle is free on iPhone. A new puzzle every day, four categories free forever, and no account, ads or timer.