On Location

On Location works like a street-view game for film fans. Each day's puzzle is a real filming location, shown as a 360-degree panorama in a sketched style, and you drag to look around: an elevated railway over a street corner, a row of shopfronts, a house on the edge of town.

The question is which film used it. You have five guesses, and each miss costs one. Below the view sit clue cards, each paid for in guesses, though never your last one: Reveal Detail cards (one guess each) turn the camera to a detail from the film somewhere in the scene, and an Establishing Shot card (two guesses) shows a caption naming where the story says you are.

Scoring rewards both accuracy and speed: naming the film earns 1,000 points plus 1,000 for every guess you still have, with a bonus for being quick. Puzzles are numbered and dated, and a countdown shows when the next one arrives at midnight UTC. There is a daily leaderboard, a lobby link to compare scores with friends, and tickets earned by playing open past days from the archive. It needs no account and shows no ads.

Smashcut Games runs several daily film games side by side, including Typecast (three actors, fifteen guesses), Headshots (name a film from five faces) and Underscore (name the film from its score).