Musiclues

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Sort sixteen music tiles into four hidden groups of four.

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Today's Musiclues board on a desktop: sixteen white tiles such as Respect, ABBA, Under the Sea and Chuck Berry, four mistake dots, and Shuffle, Deselect All and Submit buttons

Musiclues is a daily Connections-style puzzle about music. Sixteen tiles of artists, songs, albums and composers hide four groups of four, ranked from Easy to Expert, and you have four mistakes to find them all.

About Musiclues

Musiclues is a grouping puzzle in the style of Connections, built entirely from music. Each day's board has sixteen tiles, and they can be bands, solo artists, song titles, albums or classical composers. Four of them always share something: a past board grouped albums named after the act itself, songs Lin-Manuel Miranda wrote for animated films, composers of cello concertos and artists who have won all four EGOT awards.

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. There is a shuffle button to see the tiles in a new order.

Musiclues is one of the xClues games, alongside Filmclues for films and Litclues for books; tabs at the top of the page switch between the three, each with its own daily board. When you finish, a share button copies your result as coloured squares. A new Musiclues puzzle arrives at midnight UTC, and the archive lists every past day with its four categories revealed, so you can play or check earlier boards.

The categories range from pop to classical, so it suits players with broad music knowledge rather than those who follow one genre.

How to play Musiclues

Open Musiclues and look over the sixteen tiles of artists, bands and song titles.
Tap four tiles you think share a connection and press Submit.
A right guess turns the four into a coloured bar that names the group; a wrong one costs one of your four mistakes.
Use Shuffle to rearrange the board if you are stuck, and Deselect All to start a pick over.
Keep finding groups until all four are solved, then share your result or visit the archive for past boards.

Screenshots

Musiclues with one group solved: a yellow bar reading Songs from The Little Mermaid above the twelve tiles still to sort

Musiclues at phone size: the four by four board of music tiles fits the screen with the Films, Lit and Music tabs above it

Musiclues share card on a dark background: the game's name with a music note, the line Daily music connections puzzle, four coloured dots and an empty four by four grid in yellow, green, blue and purp

Tips

Look for the tiles that could fit more than one group and leave them for last.
Expert groups often hinge on a fact about the tile, such as an award or a title, rather than the genre.
Classical composers and film songs turn up as well as pop, so do not assume every tile is a band.