About
Every day, one TV show, told only through the names of its episodes. You start with the two that viewers rated lowest and work up, one wrong guess at a time, to the episode everybody remembers. Most people get it somewhere in the middle, when the filler suddenly sounds familiar.
How the clues are chosen
- Episode titles are ordered by their viewer rating on TVmaze, lowest first. The last title is the show's best-rated episode.
- Titles that would give the game away, such as one containing the show's name or a main character's, are left out, as are placeholders like "Pilot" or "Part 2".
- Between the titles come the show's run (seasons and episodes), the year it premiered and its network, and its creator (from TVmaze, or Wikidata where TVmaze has none). The final clue is the lead character.
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Credits
- Shows, episodes and ratings from TVmaze, licensed CC BY-SA 4.0. The puzzle data derived from it is shared under the same licence.
- Which shows are famous enough to be a daily answer (Wikipedia language counts), and creators TVmaze doesn't list, from Wikidata (public domain).
- Type set in Instrument Serif and IBM Plex, both under the SIL Open Font License.
Cold Opens is not affiliated with TVmaze or with any show or network.