Recorded answers
3,330 recorded answers
How to approach it
Start from the middle of the field and move steadily outward. Jot down everything that arrives instantly, then deliberately park that list, because the titles everyone shares end up in the lowest band. Spend your energy on the circles behind it: comedies built on a single jump, festive tales with a repeated day, imported speculative fiction, animation, anthology chapters, shorts. Naming conventions act as a map; anything carrying a year, a clock reading or a tally of minutes usually fits. Confirm that a real mechanism drives the story, a gadget, a rift or a loop, and not a dream, a prophecy or a plain wish. Range counts for more than polish, so keep the list long and submit the oddest legitimate title on it.
Get a hint
Big studio science fiction is the easiest opening sweep, since a device, a laboratory accident or a cosmic rift can fling the protagonist into a distant era and the plot then has to undo the damage.
A little more
From there widen into comedy, romance and family fare, above all festive stories and foreign-language releases, where one jump backwards or forwards supplies the entire premise from the opening scene.
One step further
Sweep the margins last: festival shorts, direct-to-video titles, anthology segments and micro-budget features whose names lean on calendar years, clock readings or elapsed minutes.
Reveal answers 3,330
- 31 JuneDeep Cut85points
- 35MMDeep Cut85points
- 41Deep Cut85points
- 499Deep Cut85points
- 5 More MinutesDeep Cut85points
- 5 Questions to Ask Before You Time TravelDeep Cut85points
- 5 Stages of GriefDeep Cut85points
- 5 YearsDeep Cut85points
- 50,000 B.C. (Before Clothing)Deep Cut85points
- 51 NevadaDeep Cut85points
- 57 SecondsDeep Cut85points
- 59Deep Cut85points
- 6:3 Play It Again TuttiDeep Cut85points
- 6:45Deep Cut85points
- 7 BelowDeep Cut85points
- 7 from EtheriaDeep Cut85points
- 7 Hari Menembus WaktuDeep Cut85points
- 7 MinutesDeep Cut85points
- 7:11 PMDeep Cut85points
- 72hrs the Hague: WesternDeep Cut85points
- 8 First DatesDeep Cut85points
- 8:30Deep Cut85points
- 88 DaysDeep Cut85points
- 95ers: EchoesDeep Cut85points
- A '90s ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- A Balloon's LandingDeep Cut85points
- A Biltmore ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- A Bolt from the BlueDeep Cut85points
- A Boy and His SamuraiDeep Cut85points
- A Bridge to Tomorrow: Memories of 1989Deep Cut85points
- A Carol ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- A Chance for ChristmasDeep Cut85points
- A Chinese Odyssey Part One: Pandora's BoxDeep Cut85points
- A Chinese Odyssey Part ThreeDeep Cut85points
- A Chinese Odyssey Part Two: CinderellaDeep Cut85points
- A Chinese Tall StoryDeep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1908)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1910)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1914)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1938)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1940)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1943)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1944)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1945)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1947)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1952)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1953)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1959)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1960)Deep Cut85points
- A Christmas Carol (1969)Deep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Scale decides almost everything here. The reveal accepted 3330 films and scored 3309 of them, so age, obscurity and foreign origin cost almost nobody a place. Nearly the whole field, 3151 entries, settled on 85 points, which tells you the contest was never about proving a title valid but about finding one the other players had skipped. The 157 entries stuck at 60 points are the crowded picks, the ones that reach every head within seconds and therefore cannot pay well. At the far end sits the single 100-point entry, Galaxy Quest (100), a title almost nobody connects to the theme and defensible only through one brief moment near its finale, which is exactly why it topped the scale. Between the poles stretches the vast 85 band, where date-stamped oddities, arthouse experiments and imported comedies such as ¿Puedes Quedarte un Segundo Más? (85), 1408 (85) and 2067 (85) all earned the same reward. With thousands of titles passing, strangeness outranks fame.