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
  • hong kong rockDeep Cut85points
  • hong kong tv dramaDeep Cut85points
  • honky-tonk pianoDeep Cut85points
  • hopebeatDeep Cut85points
  • horoDeep Cut85points
  • horror punkDeep Cut85points
  • horror punk brasileiroDeep Cut85points
  • horror synthDeep Cut85points
  • horrorcoreDeep Cut85points
  • hot jazzDeep Cut85points
  • house argentinoDeep Cut85points
  • houston indieDeep Cut85points
  • houston rapDeep Cut85points
  • huapangoDeep Cut85points
  • huaynoDeep Cut85points
  • huayno peruanoDeep Cut85points
  • huayno popularDeep Cut85points
  • hull indieDeep Cut85points
  • humour francaisDeep Cut85points
  • humppaDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian black metalDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian choirDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian classical performanceDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian classical pianoDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian contemporary classicalDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian edmDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian folkDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian hip hopDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian indieDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian metalDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian popDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian punkDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian rockDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian technoDeep Cut85points
  • hungarian underground rapDeep Cut85points
  • huqinDeep Cut85points
  • hurdy-gurdyDeep Cut85points
  • huzunlu sarkilarDeep Cut85points
  • hyperpop brasileiroDeep Cut85points
  • hyperpop en espanolDeep Cut85points
  • hyperpop francaisDeep Cut85points
  • hyperpop italianoDeep Cut85points
  • hypertechnoDeep Cut85points
  • hypertranceDeep Cut85points
  • hyphyDeep Cut85points
  • hypnagogic popDeep Cut85points
  • hypnosisDeep Cut85points
  • hypnotic technoDeep Cut85points
  • icelandic black metalDeep Cut85points
  • icelandic choirDeep 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