BingeWatcher

BingeWatcher masks a film's Wikipedia article in full, every word reduced to a golden bar on a black background, all dressed as a cinema ticket stamped 'ADMIT ONE'. The opening tutorial gives the instruction in one line: reveal the hidden title of the day, whose words sit at the top of the page. You type words into the 'Enter a word or a number' field and the Shots panel, on the left, numbers each attempt and attaches a digit to it. On the right, the technical card is also hidden: a Cast where each performer is only a gender icon followed by golden bars, then Director and Writers/Inspirations. The banner shows a countdown 'Next reel in' and the day's counter. The description published by the site announces the pool: every day at midnight New York time, a film from the top of the US box office since 1948.

1. Type a word or a number into the ticket field at the top of the masked article.
2. Read the Shots panel, where each suggestion is numbered and assigned a digit.
3. Work the right-hand column as much as the article body: the casting gender icons are readable before any name appears, and the Director and Writers/Inspirations blocks segment the rest.
4. Aim for the bars of the title at the top of the page, which are the target stated by the tutorial.

A film article reads completely differently when every word is a golden bar. The casting gender icons give the size of the cast before a name appears, the Director and Writers/Inspirations blocks divide the text into zones to attack, and the title at the top serves as a permanent target: you are never searching in the void. The cinema ticket dressing does the rest, with its session of the day, its countdown to the next reel and yesterday's poster left visible. And since the announced pool is the US box office since 1948, the first words are not a roll of the dice.

No colored boxes here; feedback is accounting. Each proposed word is recorded in the Shots panel with its rank and a digit. The footer credits Wikipedia and 'Word Vectors for 157 Languages' by E. Grave and coauthors. The rest of the feedback is shown around the dashboard: the number of bingewatchers who found the day's reel, yesterday's reel displayed in the clear with its own counter, and a local save that keeps a badge log with a series of days played, a counter of team members found, and the categories of clues already used.

Reel of the Day

Only one per day, with the 'Next reel in' countdown in the banner and yesterday's reel displayed under the Shots panel.

Country Selection

A flag button sits in the banner and the local save stores games and dates by country.

• The pool is stated plainly by the site: the top of the US box office since 1948. The vocabulary of big releases, studios and sequels is more rewarding than rare words.
• The casting gender icons are visible from the start: they show how many performers make up the entry and in what order, even before a name is revealed.
• An Auto-Scroll switch sits above the article; it's up to you to decide whether automatic scrolling helps or hinders.
• Yesterday's reel remains displayed in the clear with the number of players who found it: enough to gauge the kinds of films that turn up here.