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
  • gruperaDeep Cut85points
  • gruperas inmortalesDeep Cut85points
  • grupero romanticoDeep Cut85points
  • guadalajara indieDeep Cut85points
  • guam indieDeep Cut85points
  • guarachaDeep Cut85points
  • guatemalan indieDeep Cut85points
  • guatemalan metalDeep Cut85points
  • guatemalan popDeep Cut85points
  • gufengDeep Cut85points
  • guggenmusikDeep Cut85points
  • guidanceDeep Cut85points
  • guided meditationDeep Cut85points
  • guinean popDeep Cut85points
  • guitar caseDeep Cut85points
  • guitarra andinaDeep Cut85points
  • guitarra argentinaDeep Cut85points
  • Guitarra clásicaDeep Cut85points
  • guitarra mexicanaDeep Cut85points
  • guitarra portuguesaDeep Cut85points
  • gujarati garbaDeep Cut85points
  • gujarati popDeep Cut85points
  • gulf hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • gumbeDeep Cut85points
  • guqinDeep Cut85points
  • guyanese popDeep Cut85points
  • guzhengDeep Cut85points
  • gwokaDeep Cut85points
  • gyerekdalokDeep Cut85points
  • gym hardstyleDeep Cut85points
  • gym phonkDeep Cut85points
  • gymcoreDeep Cut85points
  • gypsy fusionDeep Cut85points
  • gypsy punkDeep Cut85points
  • H8000Deep Cut85points
  • haitian danceDeep Cut85points
  • haitian gospelDeep Cut85points
  • haitian traditionalDeep Cut85points
  • hakkapopDeep Cut85points
  • halftime dnbDeep Cut85points
  • halifax indieDeep Cut85points
  • hamburg electronicDeep Cut85points
  • hamburg hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • hamburg indieDeep Cut85points
  • hamburger schuleDeep Cut85points
  • hamilton on indieDeep Cut85points
  • hammered dulcimerDeep Cut85points
  • hammond organDeep Cut85points
  • hampton roads indieDeep Cut85points
  • handbellsDeep 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