How to play
Two puzzles a day, plus two open-ended modes. Each takes about a minute.
The daily puzzles
- Tonight, Tonight — the game deals everyone the exact same setup, and you build a band to fit it. One scored go per day.
- Common People — a 3×3 grid. Every square sits where a row rule crosses a column rule; you name a musician who fits both. One grid a day, the same for everyone.
Two more ways to play
- This Magic Moment — the game picks one time period and you build the whole band from it. Play as many as you like.
- Rock ’n’ Roll Fantasy — every spot in the band gets its own time period, so the band spans eras.
Building a band — step by step
This covers Tonight Tonight, This Magic Moment and Fantasy.
- Tap SPIN. The game deals you a setup — how big the band is, a broad style, and a time period. You don’t choose these; they’re dealt to you, like cards. (There’s no genre menu — the style is just part of the deal.)
- Don’t like part of it? Tap the small circular arrow ↻ next to that box to re-roll that one thing, once.
- A list of musicians appears at the bottom. Tap one. If only one open spot fits them, they go straight in; if they could fill more than one, those spots light up and you tap the one you want.
- Keep going until every spot is filled.
- You get a grade and the size of venue that band could fill — anywhere from a back-room bar to a stadium.
Common People — the daily grid
- The grid has three row rules down the left and three column rules across the top — things like a band, a famous album, an instrument, a country, a decade, “Rock Hall inductee”.
- Tap a square. It tells you the two rules that cross there. Search a name and pick someone who fits both.
- You get 9 guesses, one per square — a wrong guess still uses the square up. Each musician can only be used once on the grid.
- The rarer your correct pick (a deep cut, not the obvious name), the lower your score — and lower wins. Nine right is an immaculate grid.
- Stuck? Give up & reveal ends the round and shows how you did.
After a result
Both puzzles give you a spoiler-free grid of coloured squares you can copy and paste into a chat — it shows how you did without giving the answers away. A band result also has a Share button that sends the poster. Come back tomorrow for the next board; playing on consecutive days builds a streak.