Plot-hole

Plot-hole is a daily movie trivia game with a numbered puzzle each day, the same for everyone, and an archive of more than 200 past puzzles to catch up on. It plays in the browser on a phone or a desktop with no account and no paywall.

Each puzzle has five clues, counted down. Clue 5, the setup, gives only a genre, a setting or a mood. Clue 4 brings in a key character without naming them. Clue 3 describes the central conflict. Clue 2 gives a memorable scene, line or detail. Clue 1 names the actors, the director or the year. Under each clue the game shows what share of today's players got it there.

Your score is the clue number on which you guess right: 5 out of 5 from the setup alone, 1 if you need the last clue, 0 if you never get it. Skipping to the next clue costs a point. The result screen shows the poster, your rank for the day and a challenge link to send a friend. Streaks count your days, and streak freezes, earned by playing, cover a missed one. All-time leaderboards rank players by their total.

The site has added side modes: Movie DNA, a Poster round and Badly, which describes films badly on purpose. The daily itself carries one small sponsor card on the result screen, which the site sells by the day, and a promo banner can sit above the clue.

A first-time visitor does not start on the day's puzzle: the site serves a short ramp of easy past puzzles from the archive first (Frozen, puzzle #64 from May 22, was the first one in October), and then hands over to the live daily. Everyone who has finished the ramp plays the same numbered puzzle that day.

The clues are about the story rather than the credits, so it suits players who remember plots better than cast lists. The same makers run TV Addict for TV shows and Luminary for actors.