Rushdle

Rushdle plays the song of the day at high speed. The thirty-second excerpt starts at 3.0×, the figure shown beneath the ▶ Listen button, and the search field accepts either the title or the artist. Finding the song therefore depends less on memory than on the ear: at that speed a voice becomes a timbre and a chorus a rhythmic cell. Each mistake slows the track by one notch, down to a final attempt at normal speed, easier to read but worth less. At the top of the board three stations wait their turn: POP with a microphone, ROCK with a guitar, HIP-HOP with headphones, with only the active station lit. That's the day's program: three songs, one per genre.

1. Spot the current station at the top of the board: POP, ROCK and HIP-HOP, one song each, only one lit at a time.
2. Press ▶ Listen: the clip starts at the speed shown just below, 3.0× on the first try.
3. Type a title or an artist name into the "Search title or artist..." field.
4. After an error, or by using "Skip turn (slows it down) →", restart the listen: the button label indicates the track will be slowed.

Because a song at 3.0× is no longer quite a song: it's a signature, a grain of voice and a rhythmic profile. Rushdle turns musical recognition into a pure reflex, and the decreasing scale makes every listen a gamble: jump in now, or wait for a slower notch and accept being worth less.

Here, feedback isn't a color; it's tempo. The game doesn't tell you if you're getting warmer: it slows down. The page lays out the scoring plainly: 100 points for a find on the first try, then 80, 60, 40 and 20, and zero if the five attempts fail, in which case the song is revealed. The day's score is the percentage average of the three stations. Local save only keeps a single progress key dated for the day, with no streak counter. Typed text alone does not move the attempt counter: the field clearly expects a suggestion chosen from its list.

The three stations of the day

POP, ROCK and HIP-HOP, one song per station, with a final score given as the average of the three.

• The scoring rewards boldness: recognizing a track at 3.0× is worth five times the same title found on the last try. If the chorus speaks to you on the first listen, try right away.
• The field accepts title or artist. When the song eludes you but the voice is identifiable, aiming for the artist is still a valid answer.
• Three songs make up the day and the final score is an average: completely failing the ROCK station doesn't doom the day's result.