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Call Sheet, Career Arc, Match Cut, and Double Exposure are original designs — our mechanics, our editorial voice, one puzzle a day each. Every daily puzzle is chosen, tuned, and approved by a human editor before it ships. Candidate puzzles come out of our own tooling; a person decides what’s fair, what’s fun, and what actually runs. The dailies are free, every day, forever — no ads on them, no meter. That’s in writing now.

Daily games are a tradition, and we joined it on purpose. None of the games below are affiliated with FilmSchool and their names belong to their creators — we name them because we’re fans, and because the lineage deserves saying out loud.

• Wordle

  Josh Wardle’s gift to the internet defined the modern daily ritual: one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, with a spoiler-free result you can share. Every daily game made since — ours included — lives in the world it created.

• Connections

  The New York Times perfected the grid of hidden groups. Match Cut is our love letter to that genre, pointed at cinema — sixteen films, four threads, and the same delicious “one away” agony.

• Framed

  The game that proved a single frame can be a puzzle. Framed opened the guess-the-film genre for everyone; Double Exposure’s reveal-by-reveal guessing owes it a debt, and we pay it here happily.

• The Box Office Game

  Born in the Blank Check community and kept alive by the people who love it, it turned box-office charts into play. Career Arc — ordering a filmmaker’s work across a career — exists partly because that game showed us the numbers under the movies are part of the story. If you like Career Arc, go play it and throw something in the tip jar.

• Cinematrix & Immaculate Grid

  Vulture’s Cinematrix and the Immaculate Grid family made the criteria grid a daily habit. Backlot, our studio-lot take on the grid, plays in the genre they established.

• Moviedle

  Gone but not forgotten — the film-a-day guessing game that many of us played until it wound down. Consider part of what we build a memorial.

The study catalog behind the games is 18,500 entries on craft, technique, film history, world cinema, and the business of movies. Nobody hand-types 18,500 entries — and we won’t pretend otherwise. Here’s the actual pipeline:

• Drafted at scale.Entries are drafted with large language models, working from a syllabus we designed — the tools write fast; we decide what’s worth writing about.
• Checked by pipeline.A verification pipeline grades entries against the film record — credits, dates, awards, claims — and flags what doesn’t hold up. It runs continuously, and the catalog gets better every pass.
• Curated by hand where it counts. Everything that reaches a daily puzzle passes human review. The games are the front door, and a person stands at it.

Find something wrong? Tell us at hello@filmschool.appand we’ll fix it — corrections are a favor, not an attack.

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