Name a music genre (listed as a genre on Spotify)

November 2, 2026 · Daily Dive #110

Explore 6,432 recorded answers and their points for question 7 on November 2, 2026.

Dated record7 questions · 124,517 recorded answers

6,432 recorded names on November 2, 2026, 5,964 at 85 or higher. The highest recorded score on this question is 100.

A catalogue this size rewards sheer breadth of recall: the platform files thousands of micro-labels, so the winning move is volume of plausible terminology rather than one clever pick. It scores when the phrase exists as a genre tag in the platform's own catalogue, however narrow or obscure; it fails if it names a performer, one recording, or a label you invented.

6,432 recorded answers5,964 at 85+ points100 highest recorded points
  • One in a Krillion1100 pts
  • Deep Cut5,96385 pts
  • Rare42960 pts
  • Schooler3230 pts
  • Plankton710 pts
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Recorded answers

6,432 recorded answers

How to approach it

Treat the task as a timed recall sprint, not a hunt for one perfect label. Spend a minute noting every genre term you have ever seen attached to a record, from the broadest umbrella phrases down to the strangest compound you can picture, and hold back nothing at this stage. Prune afterwards, keeping only entries you can imagine sitting in the platform's catalogue. The productive route is combinatorial: take one style stem you trust and attach a region, a period, a format or an instrument, then judge which pairings read like genuine tags. Do not chase a brilliant rarity. The field is so wide and the scoring so flat that your first instinct carries as much weight as your twentieth guess, so move fast.

Get a hint

Start with scale: the catalogue holds thousands of tags, so the skill being tested is recall under time pressure. Ask how many genre terms you could list in a minute without repeating yourself.

A little more

Study how most tags are built: a style root fused with a place, a decade, a tempo figure, a technology or an instrument. Once that pattern is visible, one remembered term turns into a dozen variants.

One step further

Then push toward the far edge of the list: hyphenated micro-labels, single descriptors that barely register as genres, and tags lifted wholesale from regional scenes on other continents.

Reveal answers 6,432
  • taarabDeep Cut85points
  • tablaDeep Cut85points
  • tagalog rapDeep Cut85points
  • tagalog worshipDeep Cut85points
  • tahitian traditionalDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan campus folkDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan classical performanceDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan electronicDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan experimentalDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan graduation songDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan idol popDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan indieDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan instrumentalDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan metalDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan popDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan post-rockDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan punkDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan rockDeep Cut85points
  • taiwan singer-songwriterDeep Cut85points
  • taiwanese indieDeep Cut85points
  • taiwanese indigenous musicDeep Cut85points
  • taiwanese popDeep Cut85points
  • tajik popDeep Cut85points
  • tajik traditionalDeep Cut85points
  • talent showDeep Cut85points
  • talentkonkurranseDeep Cut85points
  • talentkonkurrenceDeep Cut85points
  • talentos brasileirosDeep Cut85points
  • talentschauDeep Cut85points
  • tallavaDeep Cut85points
  • tamaulipas indieDeep Cut85points
  • tamaulipas rapDeep Cut85points
  • tamazightDeep Cut85points
  • tamborazoDeep Cut85points
  • tamburicaDeep Cut85points
  • TamilDeep Cut85points
  • tamil danceDeep Cut85points
  • tamil devotionalDeep Cut85points
  • tamil hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • tamil indieDeep Cut85points
  • tamil popDeep Cut85points
  • tamil worshipDeep Cut85points
  • tampa indieDeep Cut85points
  • tan coDeep Cut85points
  • tanciDeep Cut85points
  • Tango canciónDeep Cut85points
  • tanzanian hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • tanzanian popDeep Cut85points
  • tanzanian traditionalDeep Cut85points

Why these answers count

The numbers tell a flattening story. Out of 6,431 recorded answers, 6,392 scored, and 5,962 of those sat on the same 85 points, one broad band that swallowed everything from bare one-word abstractions such as abstract to hyper-local hyphenates such as adelaide indie and technical oddities such as 8D and 432hz. Only 429 fell to 60, presumably entries the grader read as a weaker fit: a near miss, a variant spelling, or something it would not treat as a genre tag. Exactly one response, stomp and holler, reached 100. That solitary case carries the lesson. Normally the rarest legitimate pick pays best, since fewer players share the pool, but here the catalogue is so vast that rarity stopped carrying information. Obscurity bought nothing: accordion earned the same 85 as afro house angolano. Depth of recall was rewarded only up to the point of being right, and not a single point further.

Recorded from the game’s published reveal · Source · Checked 2 Nov, 14:30 UTC

Names and scores reflect the linked dated reveal. The original game makes the final decision on live acceptance. Editorial policy