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
  • erhuDeep Cut85points
  • eritrean popDeep Cut85points
  • erotic productDeep Cut85points
  • eroticaDeep Cut85points
  • erotikDeep Cut85points
  • escape roomDeep Cut85points
  • esperantoDeep Cut85points
  • essex indieDeep Cut85points
  • estonian electronicDeep Cut85points
  • estonian folkDeep Cut85points
  • estonian hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • estonian indieDeep Cut85points
  • estonian jazzDeep Cut85points
  • estonian metalDeep Cut85points
  • estonian popDeep Cut85points
  • estonian rockDeep Cut85points
  • ethereal gothicDeep Cut85points
  • ethereal waveDeep Cut85points
  • etherpopDeep Cut85points
  • ethio-jazzDeep Cut85points
  • ethiopian hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • ethiopian popDeep Cut85points
  • ethiopian traditionalDeep Cut85points
  • ethnomusicologyDeep Cut85points
  • ethnotronicaDeep Cut85points
  • eugene indieDeep Cut85points
  • euphoniumDeep Cut85points
  • euphoric hardstyleDeep Cut85points
  • euro hi-nrgDeep Cut85points
  • euroskaDeep Cut85points
  • euskal indieDeep Cut85points
  • euskal metalDeep Cut85points
  • euskal musicaDeep Cut85points
  • euskal reggaeDeep Cut85points
  • euskal rockDeep Cut85points
  • eventyrDeep Cut85points
  • exoticaDeep Cut85points
  • experimental ambientDeep Cut85points
  • experimental bassDeep Cut85points
  • experimental big bandDeep Cut85points
  • experimental black metalDeep Cut85points
  • experimental classicalDeep Cut85points
  • experimental clubDeep Cut85points
  • experimental dubDeep Cut85points
  • experimental dubstepDeep Cut85points
  • experimental folkDeep Cut85points
  • experimental guitarDeep Cut85points
  • experimental houseDeep Cut85points
  • experimental indieDeep Cut85points
  • experimental indie rockDeep 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