Movie Grid

About Movie Grid

Movie Grid is a daily film trivia game made by Sam Shulman and Alex Nunan, two friends from East Boston who built it after a coding bootcamp. It launched in August 2023 and borrows its format from Immaculate Grid, the baseball version of the same idea. The film data and posters come from The Movie Database.

Each day's grid has three clues along the top and three down the left side. Clues mix people and categories: an actor such as Meryl Streep or Susan Sarandon, a director, films nominated for an Oscar, titles with a double letter, titles starting with certain letters, release year ranges and so on. Every square sits where a row and a column meet, so the film you pick for it has to satisfy both. You type a title, choose it from the drop-down list, and if it fits, its poster fills the square.

You get nine guesses for nine squares, and a wrong answer still uses one up, so a perfect grid means no misses at all. A film can only be used once. When you finish, the results show how many players chose each of your films, and rarer correct picks earn a better score than the obvious ones.

Beyond the main grid, the site has yesterday's grid, an archive, and themed variants such as a TV Grid, Classic, Deep Cut and Off Script. The same makers also run sister games including Movie Pyramid, Movie Reveal and Movie Snake. Movie Grid suits film fans who know casts and filmographies and like the challenge of finding an answer nobody else thought of.

How to play Movie Grid

1. Read the three clues across the top and the three down the side.
2. Pick a square and think of a film that matches both its row clue and its column clue.
3. Type the title and choose the exact film from the drop-down list.
4. If the poster appears, the answer is right; if not, you have still used one of your nine guesses.
5. Fill as many of the nine squares as you can, then compare how rare your picks were with other players.

Tips

• Start with the hardest square, often where two people meet, while you still have guesses to spare.
• Titles in the list must match exactly, so pick from the drop-down rather than typing the whole name.
• When a clue is just a name, it means films that person acted in; films they only directed do not count.
• For a better score, skip the most famous film that fits and choose a lesser known one you are sure of.
• Click an actor's or director's name to see a headshot if you are unsure who they are.
• Do not use your best film for one square if it is the only answer you know for another.

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