Undersung

About Undersung

Undersung is a daily music challenge, first made in French and playable in English and Spanish too. Each numbered challenge shows a single word in large type, and your job is to think of a real song whose lyrics include it.

You search by title or artist and pick the song. The scoring turns the usual music quiz around: the less a song is played, the more points it is worth, so a famous hit that obviously fits scores little while an obscure album track can score a lot. If the word appears in the song's title, the answer is only worth half. You have a limited number of tries for the day.

Missed days stay available from a row of recent dates, and the game has a leaderboard, statistics and badges. Outside the daily challenge there is a practice mode and a time attack mode.

It suits listeners with deep record collections and anyone who knows the lyrics to songs nobody else has heard of.

How to play Undersung

1. Open Undersung and read today's word.
2. Think of a song whose lyrics contain that word.
3. Search for it by title or artist and submit it.
4. Score more for less-played songs; a song with the word in its title scores half.
5. Use your remaining tries to find a deeper cut, then compare on the leaderboard.

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Tips

• Skip the obvious hit: think of album tracks, B-sides and smaller artists.
• Avoid songs with the word in the title, since they only count half.
• Check that the song really has the word in its lyrics before you submit: the daily challenge gives only a few tries.

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