How to play

Every day there is one Eurovision entry to find. Guesses are unlimited — you will always get there. What counts is how few you need. Each guess can be any entry from 1956 to today: type a performer, a song, a country, or a year (“croatia 2024” works).

The tiles

After each guess you get five tiles comparing your guess to the answer.

▲ and ▼ point towards the answer: on the year tile, ▲ means the answer is later; on the placement tile, ▲ means the answer finished higher.

Points

You score on the Eurovision scale — the fewer guesses, the higher the score.

Hint

After four wrong guesses, the first letter of the performer’s name is revealed.

Emoji mode

Same rules, but you also get four or five emoji describing the song or the performance, and the answer is drawn from a smaller set of well-known entries.

Connections

Sixteen entries, four hidden groups of four — by country, by language, by who wrote the song, or by who won when. Pick four and submit. Every entry belongs to exactly one group, but plenty of them look like they belong somewhere else: a Swiss entry sung in Italian is not an Italian entry.

You get four lives. A wrong group costs three points, so twelve becomes nine, then six, then three — and the fourth mistake ends the day. Either way you see all four groups at the end.

ABBA quiz

A different game: ten multiple-choice questions a day about ABBA’s albums, release years and who sings lead. Nobody gets knocked out — you keep picking until you get it right, and the points drop with every miss.

Ten questions makes 120 a perfect day. The fourth try is a certainty once the other three are ruled out, which is why it is worth nothing.

A note on the data

Results come from public records and Wikipedia, compiled by hand. If you spot a mistake, tell us — it helps everyone.