Filmclues

Filmclues is a grouping puzzle in the style of Connections, built from cinema. Each day's board has sixteen tiles. Most are film titles, but they can also be directors, actors or characters. Four of them always share something: today's board (21 October 2026) hid monkey and ape characters, films set in Hawaii and film titles that are also yoga poses; an earlier one grouped directors who have made a Star Wars film, films written by William Goldman, characters named after a weather word and actors who won an Academy Award in a Clint Eastwood film.

You select four tiles and press Submit. A right guess locks the group in its colour, which shows its difficulty from Easy to Expert; a wrong one costs one of your four mistakes. A shuffle button shows the tiles in a new order when you are stuck.

Filmclues is one of the xClues games, alongside Musiclues for music and Litclues for books, each with its own daily board. A new Filmclues puzzle arrives at midnight UTC, and the archive lists every past day with its four groups revealed, going back to 21 September 2026. The archive shows answers only; past boards cannot be replayed. The game keeps your streak and stats in the browser, lets you share a coloured grid of your result, and needs no account and shows no ads.

The groups lean on facts about the people behind the films as much as on the films themselves, so it suits players who read the credits as well as watch the movie.