Sad Songs Quiz

Each round plays one second of a real recording. Name the track and you score five points. Miss or skip and you unlock two seconds, then four, seven and eleven, with the round worth less each time. Five songs per run, and the guess field suggests titles as you type so spelling never counts against you.

Tracks are pulled live from the public music catalogue, so the set changes every run. Titles you might hear include Someone Like You, when the party's over, Fix You, drivers license. Each round also starts at a random point in the recording, so the same song can feel completely different the next time it appears.

Yes. No sign-up, no download and no cost. It runs in the browser on phone, tablet or desktop.

Usually. Narrowing everything to sad songs removes the genre and era clues you would normally lean on in the first second, so you have to know the actual songs.