A free Hitster alternative you play in a browser
MusicWiz is the same idea — hear a song, work out the year it came out — with nothing to buy, nothing to connect and nothing to install. One person opens a room, everyone else scans a code, and you play.
Free. No account. Up to 12 players.
Play a game now →What each one needs before you can play
| Cards | Streaming subscription | An app installed | An account | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Hitster | Yes | Yes | Yes | Yes |
| MusicWiz | No | No | No | No |
They are the same game to play. The difference is everything you have to arrange first.
How a game works
- Whoever hosts opens a room and gets a four-character code and a QR code.
- Everyone else joins from their own phone — or you play it round one speaker.
- A thirty-second clip plays. Everybody types the year they think it came out.
- Closest year scores. An exact answer scores most, and getting there first breaks the tie.
What is actually different
- 2,941 songs rather than a fixed deck — 1,704 international and 1,237 French, from 1960 to 2026, with three difficulty settings and any combination of decades. It does not run out, and the same group can play it every week.
- The years are checked. The catalogue is built from Billboard and SNEP year-end charts, and every row carries the year the recording came out, which is frequently not the year it charted. That distinction is the entire game, so it is worth getting right. The charts are published if you want to read them.
- It keeps almost nothing about you. No account, no ads, no third-party analytics, no cookies. A birth year is rounded to a decade before anything is written down, and your IP address is never stored. The privacy page says exactly what is kept, which is short.
- There is a daily challenge — the same songs for everyone that day, with a board and a result you can post.
Where it is weaker
Worth knowing before you pick it for an evening.
- It plays thirty-second previews, not full tracks. Enough to name a year; not a listening session.
- The catalogue leans older — roughly two thirds of it is pre-2000 and the 1990s is the deepest decade by some distance. Excellent for a room of thirty-somethings and up, thinner for a chart-pop crowd.
- You need a browser and a connection. There is no offline mode and nothing to put on a shelf.
- There are no cards to hold. If the physical deck is the part your table enjoys, this does not replace it.
Try it
A round takes about five minutes, and there is nothing to set up.
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