What is Songless?

Songless plays a fragment of a song and asks you to name it. The first snippet lasts 0.1 seconds, barely registering as music. You get six tries per board, and every wrong guess or skip unlocks a longer stretch of the same track. Three tabs run separate boards: All, Rock, and Hip Hop.

How to play

  1. Press the green play button to hear the 0.1-second snippet the timeline names.
  2. Type into "Search a song" and pick a result from the list.
  3. A wrong guess fills the next row and unlocks more audio. Skip advances the audio without naming a track.
  4. Continue until you identify the song or use all six rows.

Why the game rewards deep listeners

Six rows and a tenth-of-a-second opening mean Songless suits listeners who know records rather than choruses. The first snippet rewards recognizing a snare sound or a sample. Half-remembered humming gets you nowhere against a search box that requires the exact title.

Signing in is optional and provides stats and custom games. The catch is the back catalogue: past dates sit behind a Lessgames subscription, so a day you skip is only recoverable if you pay for it.

Reading the feedback

Six rows sit under the tabs and fill one at a time as you guess or skip. Above the play button, a segmented bar shows the unlock steps at their true relative widths. The marker labels how many seconds you have earned, so the later segments visibly dwarf the first ones.

Modes

All
The unfiltered board, with no genre restriction.

Rock
The rock board, on its own tab.

Hip Hop
The hip-hop board, on its own tab.

Tips for better guesses

With only a tenth of a second, you are not hearing a melody. You are hearing production details: a drum machine’s attack, tape hiss, or the tail of a particular reverb. Identifying the era or studio sound is the most practical place to start.

The genre tabs are easier boards, not harder ones. Rock and Hip Hop narrow the candidate pool to one style, so listeners familiar with that style have far fewer plausible answers to sort through than they do in All.

If you want to catch up, check the subscription price before starting a streak. The daily is free, but the archive is not.