CastMe

CastMe is a set of daily puzzles built around who appears in what. Its main mode, Movies, puts six face-down cards on the board and turns over one actor from the day's mystery film. You have six guesses; each miss, or a blank guess to skip, flips another card and tells you how your pick compares, such as whether it shares an actor with the answer, and how its year, genre and director line up.

TV Shows uses the same idea for series casts, with puzzles chosen separately because television casts change across seasons. Connections gives you 16 performers to sort into four groups of four by a shared credit, some days from films and some from TV. Six Degrees names two actors and asks you to link them through a chain of films and costars, scoring the route.

Each mode is the same for every player that day and numbered, so results can be shared without spoilers, with streaks and solve stats kept for you. Older puzzles go into an archive: recent ones are free, and the deeper archive and a Hard Mode for Movies with three guesses come with CastMe Premium, at $2.99 a month or $19.99 a year.

The first visit to Movies opens with a short welcome puzzle before the day's film. It suits film fans who know faces and supporting casts as well as headliners.