Beat the Letter Back to the game Beat the Letter Back to the game Setlist is a daily word game played in songs. Everyone gets the same five-letter word, and you have six guesses to find it. The catch: every letter of a guess is a song you name, and a song plays only once a day.
Play today’s SetlistA band doesn’t play the same song twice in one show, and neither do you. Every song you play is spent for the day, so each guess is paid for in new songs.
Say your first guess is CRANE: “Chandelier”, “Respect”, “Another Brick in the Wall”, “Nothing Compares 2 U” and “Everybody Wants to Rule the World”. The R and the A come back green, and the N and the E come back yellow.
So a good guess narrows the word down, and it’s also one you can still pay for. By the fifth guess, the letter you need may be the one you have run out of songs for.
Win or lose, you see the day’s word, and your songs are today’s setlist: every song you played, each with a thirty-second preview. One tap makes them a YouTube playlist that anyone can open, with no account and no sign-in.
Tap Share result and your phone’s share sheet opens. Where the browser has none, the result is copied instead. It is a grid for the group chat: a row for each guess, a square for each letter, and no letters or songs anywhere.
Setlist #40 4/6 ⬛🟨⬛⬛⬛ 🟨⬛🟩⬛⬛ 🟩🟩🟩⬛🟨 🟩🟩🟩🟩🟩 Can you get today’s word? 👇
The link at the end previews as a card of your records: your score and how many different songs it took. Whoever opens it is one tap from today’s word.
Setlist turns over with the daily hand and carries the same number, so Setlist #40 and Daily #40 are the same day. The daily hand is five letters against the stopwatch; Setlist is one word, with no clock at all.
Rather play with friends? A round of Beat the Letter deals two to five players a hand of letters each, and the first to name a song for all of them sets the time to beat. How to play.
Play today’s SetlistGuess the day’s five-letter word in six tries. Type any five-letter English word, then name a song for each of its letters. When all five are named, play the guess: each letter comes back green if it is in the right spot, yellow if it is in the word somewhere else, and dark if it is not in the word.
Every song you play is spent for the day. Try a letter in another spot, or again in a later guess, and it needs a different song. The one exception is a letter already green in its spot: keep it there and the song that found it comes along for free.
Then it needs two different songs that start with that letter, one for each spot.
Any released track whose title starts with the letter. The game checks every title against a real music catalogue and never suggests one: you type the full title, then choose the recording you meant. A leading “The” is optional, so “The Unforgiven” counts for U as well as T. Each letter of a guess has twelve tries.
Not always. It is an everyday English word, and now and then a music one. The music is in how you play it: every letter of every guess is a song.
At midnight UTC. That is 8 p.m. Eastern and 5 p.m. Pacific while daylight saving time is on, and an hour earlier in winter. Everyone in the world gets the same word, whichever language they play the game in.
No, one go at each day’s word. Opening Setlist again takes you back to where you were, or to your result once it is done.
They are the day’s setlist: every song you played, each with a thirty-second preview. One tap turns them into a YouTube playlist that anyone can open, in the app or a browser, with no account.
No. The share is a grid of squares, one row for each guess, with no letters and no song titles. Its link previews as a card of records drawn the same way, with your score and how many different songs it took.
No. Each word can only be played on its own day, and there is no archive. Tomorrow’s word cannot be seen in advance either.
Yes. It runs in the browser on any phone or computer, with nothing to buy and nothing to download, and you can play as a guest.