Anirealm: the complete guide to the four daily animation quizzes

Anirealm is a free daily game for people who grew up on animated films and never really stopped watching them. Instead of a single puzzle, you get a little TV-style lineup of four shows, each testing a different kind of memory: what a poster looks like, who a character is, how a film sounds, and how well you know the details behind a title.

• Screenle: name the film behind a blurred poster.
• Charaquizz: identify characters from their picture, and the film they come from.
• Hear'n'See: recognise a film from a clip of its soundtrack.
• Anifitl: track down one mystery film using clues returned by each guess.

You can play the shows in any order, and the whole site works in English and French. When you play in French, French film titles are accepted too, so you never have to translate a title in your head.

A new programme starts every day at 1 am Paris time, all year round. Everyone gets exactly the same puzzles that day, so comparing scores with friends is fair. Each show can be played once per day; after that, the show displays your result card until the next broadcast.

If you are halfway through a show when 1 am arrives, you can still finish it: the game lets you complete a session you had already started, but it will not let you open a fresh one on a past day.

• Screenle: 3 rounds, one poster each, 3 lives per round.
• Charaquizz: 3 rounds of 4 characters, one submission per round.
• Hear'n'See: 3 rounds, one soundtrack clip each, 3 lives per round.
• Anifitl: one mystery film, up to 12 guesses.

Every show has a give-up button. Giving up reveals the answer and scores zero for that round (or, on Anifitl, for the day), which is handy when you are completely stuck and would rather learn something.

Each show is worth up to 30,000 points, so a perfect day is 120,000.

• Screenle: 10,000 points if you find the poster on your first try, 5,000 on the second, 2,500 on the third. Every miss costs a life and sharpens the image a little.
• Charaquizz: 1,500 points for each correct character name and 1,000 for each correct film, so 2,500 per card and 10,000 per round. Any film from the same saga counts for the film field.
• Hear'n'See: the same 10,000 / 5,000 / 2,500 ladder as Screenle. The clip lasts 5 seconds on your first life, 10 on the second, 20 on the third. Two optional hints never cost a life but trim the round's points if you then find it: year and studio take off 25 %, a blurred poster takes off 40 %.
• Anifitl: 30,000 on the first guess, then 25,000, 20,000, 15,000, 10,000 and 5,000 for guesses two to six. From the seventh guess the find is worth 4,000, 3,000, 2,000, 1,500, 1,000 and finally 500 on the twelfth.

On Screenle and Hear'n'See, guessing another film from the right saga is still a miss, but the game tells you that you are close.

Say you start with Screenle. Round one's poster is a smudge of blue and orange; you guess a sea adventure and lose a life. The blur eases, you spot a familiar silhouette and get it on your second try: 5,000 points.

On Hear'n'See, the first five seconds are a soft piano line that could be anything. You guess wrong, so the next play runs ten seconds and a choir comes in. Still unsure, you take the year and studio hint, which narrows it to a handful of films, and you land it. That round is worth 5,000 for the second life, minus 25 % for the hint: 3,750.

On Anifitl, your first guess comes back with the studio in green, the year marked as too old, the decade as close, and a rating that is close but lower. Your next guesses move forward in time within that studio. After four misses the game starts handing you one trait of the film per miss, and you find it on guess six: 5,000 points.

• Screenle: read the poster's colours and composition before guessing. A wrong answer is not wasted, since it buys a sharper image, but your first try is worth twice the second.
• Charaquizz: rounds get harder on purpose, from the most famous faces in round one to deeper cuts in round three. Fill in the film even when the name escapes you: it is still 1,000 points, and empty fields simply score zero.
• Charaquizz names forgive one or two typos on longer names, and either the English or French name works. Very short names need the exact spelling.
• Hear'n'See: a hint is always cheaper than a life. If the first clip means nothing, a year hint (−25 %) beats a blind guess that halves the round.
• Anifitl: open with a well-known film from a big studio. It gives a solid read on studio, decade and fame tier at once. Follow the arrows: the year says newer or older, and the year turns close when you are within three years.
• Anifitl's rating column is green within 0.5 points of the mystery film's rating, close within 1.5. It is a quiet but powerful filter once the era is pinned down.

Anirealm keeps a day streak for the whole site and one for each show. A day counts when you play at least one show on its own broadcast day; the warning on the home grid reminds you the day ends at 1 am Paris time. Miss a single day and the streak joker can save it: once a calendar month, a joker covers one missed day in all your Letsdle streaks at once. Two missed days in a row always end a streak.

The reruns let you replay any of the last seven broadcast days. They are there for fun, or to catch a day you missed: rerun scores appear in your stats but never extend a streak.

The answers pages publish every past day's solutions, round by round: the posters, the characters and their films, the soundtrack tracks and the Anifitl film. A day's answers only go up once that day has finished airing, so they never spoil the live puzzles.

No account is needed to play. Your progress is tied to your browser, and you can optionally link it to an email address or a Google account to keep your streaks and stats on another device.