Lessgames

How Songless works

Songless plays a clip of a song that starts at a tenth of a second. Every miss or skip makes the clip a little longer. Your first try is close to a guess on sound alone, and your last one gives you a few full seconds.

The trick is to listen for texture, not melody. In a tenth of a second you will not hear a tune. You can often hear a drum machine, a distorted guitar or a voice, though, and that is enough to rule out whole genres.

Which Lessgames game to start with

• Songless if you know your music and enjoy a very hard first guess.
• More/Less if you want something for two minutes on a bus. Each round is one tap.
• Clueless if you would rather play with words than songs.

A tip for More/Less

More/Less is a streak game, so one wrong pick ends the run. When you have no idea, go with the thing that is older, bigger or better known. That simple rule is a better bet than a random tap.

If you finish early

Lessgames keeps its games short on purpose. Once you are done, the song quizzes in the list above use the same idea with different rules. Heardle gives you a longer intro to work with, and Bandle adds one instrument at a time, which suits people who know arrangements better than lyrics.