So I found this Wordle-alike game a couple weeks ago and, I gotta say, it’s pretty fun. Each day has you try to figure out what the top five movies were at a different past weekend at the box office. Each movie is initially worth 200 points, but you can lower the point value by “buying” hints (e.g., movie tagline, director’s name, actors’ names, plot description, etc…). You get 10 guesses to figure them all out, with each unused guess giving you additional bonus points.

So for today, I got:

July 22, 2005
✅ 200
✅ 120
✅ 160
✅ 200
✅ 160
➕ 200
🏆 1040

If anybody else in interested in playing it, it lives at boxofficega.me.

boxofficega.me

June 22, 1990
✅ 160
✅ 160
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 180
🏆 1010

boxofficega.me
June 22, 1990
❌ 0
❌ 0
❌ 0
❌ 0
❌ 0
🏆 0

edit: On reflection I think this is probably not for me - never having cared much about box office results and a dreadful memory = not much chance of being any good at it :(

boxofficega.me
December 1, 2017
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 200
🏆 1050

So I always knew that Titanic was in theaters forever, but this game is how I found out that Good Will Hunting was still in the top five grossing movies in March of 1998! Looking it up after the fact, apparently its theatrical run was basically five full months long. Must have been nice when movies were allowed to have such ling legs.

February 14, 2014
✅ 200
❌ 0
✅ 55
✅ 160
❌ 0
➕ 0
🏆 415

Today really threw my for a loop. The tagline for #3 really had me chasing the wrong kind of movie and I guessed two wrong 2014 movies starring #2’s lead actor before I had to take the “L” for the day.

boxofficega.me
October 13, 2006
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 165
➕ 160
🏆 1005

October 13, 2006
✅ 120
✅ 200
✅ 160
❌ 0
✅ 80
➕0
🏆 540

I’m still kind of miffed that #4 wasn’t The Tale of Despereaux and that #5 wasn’t Dominion: Prequel to the Exorcist.

boxofficega.me
December 23, 1988
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 200
🏆 1050

Man, the 80’s are so much harder to figure out than the other decades. Then again, since I wasn’t stirring in the cultural soup back then (I was definitely a late 80’s baby), I guess it makes sense that a couple random buddy comedies would slip my attention.

December 23, 1988
✅ 200
✅ 80
✅ 120
✅ 85
❌ 0
➕0
🏆 485

Opposite for me, I do much better on the '80s than the last couple decades. But I am much older than you.

boxofficega.me
March 18, 2016
✅ 165
✅ 170
✅ 165
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 160
🏆 1000

Re: Anybody Play the Wordle-Alike “Box Office Game?”
 

boxofficega.me
May 26, 1995
✅ 120
✅ 120
✅ 160
❌ 0
❌ 0
�� 400

boxofficega.me
May 26, 1995
✅ 170
✅ 135
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 180
🏆 995

boxofficega.me
November 7, 2003
✅ 170
✅ 135
✅ 165
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 180
🏆 990

boxofficega.me

June 17, 1983
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 200
🏆 1050

boxofficega.me

July 13, 1984
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 200
🏆 1050

boxofficega.me
May 12, 1989
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 200
✅ 135
➕ 200
🏆 1045

boxofficega.me
August 6, 1999

✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 160
🏆 1010

boxofficega.me
May 25, 2001
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
➕ 180
🏆 1030

boxofficega.me

September 11, 1998
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 170
✅ 160
➕ 160
�� 1000

boxofficega.me
October 22, 1982
✅ 170
✅ 195
✅ 170
✅ 200
✅ 200
➕ 160
🏆 1095