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Category: Trivia · Players: free-for-all · Status: Stable
Each round shows a heavily blurred movie poster that sharpens over a few seconds. Chat races to type the title — the first correct guess wins the round and ends it. Play a set of rounds; the most titles named takes the crown.

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Gameplay

1

Watch the poster sharpen

A blurred poster appears and eases toward clear. The earlier you recognise it, the more of a jump you get on the room.
2

Type the title

Just type the film’s name in chat — no command. Common variants and subtitles are accepted, so you don’t have to match punctuation exactly.
3

First correct wins the round

The first correct guess ends the round and banks a point. The host then advances to the next poster, or reveals to move on if nobody gets it.
Late joiners are welcome between rounds — there’s no elimination, so a viewer arriving mid-set just starts scoring from the next round.

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How the reveal works

The round is a race against the blur: the poster starts unreadable and sharpens toward clear, so recognising it early is the whole skill.
A movie poster sharpening across four steps from blurred to clear, with the last marked winner
  • Earlier is better. There’s no per-step scoring, but the first correct guess ends the round — so reading the poster while it’s still fuzzy is how you beat the room.
  • Forgiving matching. The title is checked loosely: common alternate titles and subtitles count, and case and punctuation don’t matter.
  • The answer stays hidden. The title isn’t in the live data until the round ends, so it can’t leak early.

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Configuration

OptionValuesDefault
Round lengthseconds the poster takes to sharpen15s
Fast-forward gifta gift that skips seconds of the revealOff until set
Round length. How long a poster takes to ease from full blur to clear. A shorter round makes each poster a tighter reaction test. Fast-forward gift. Optional — off until the host configures it. When set, sending the gift skips seconds off the sharpening curve for the whole room (see Gifts).

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Layout

Labeled layout of the Guess the Movie play surface
  1. Marquee — game title and how-to hint.
  2. Round + gift strip — round number, and the fast-forward gift when configured.
  3. Poster — the blurred poster, sharpening over the round.
  4. Leaderboard — players ranked by titles named.
  5. Guess pill — the live count of guesses this round.
The game moves through Lobby → Round → Revealed → Finished.

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Gifts

Guess the Movie’s gift is a cooperative fast-forward — it sharpens the poster faster for everyone, and never picks a winner. It’s off unless the host sets it.
A reveal timeline with a marker pushed forward, and a cost-ordered ladder of gifts skipping seconds
  • Each configured gift skips seconds off the poster’s sharpening, jumping the reveal forward for the whole room.
  • Bigger gifts skip more — a typical ladder is Rose 3s, Heart 3s, Galaxy 8s, Lion 20s.
  • It only speeds up the reveal; the round is still won by the first correct guess.

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Scoring

  • Each round won adds one to your per-streamer win count (which drives avatar ring tiers).
  • The most titles named across the set wins; ties are shipped as co-winners.
  • Wins are tracked per streamer.