Nonfiction · Vérité to True Crime · Roll Sound, Roll Camera
Documentaries
You watched Free Solo through your fingers, finished Tiger King in one night, and still argue that Hoop Dreams got robbed. Six games for people whose watchlist is mostly real.
🕹️ 6 Games
🧠 54 Questions
🧩 3 Connections Boards
🪜 3 Word Ladders
"Documentary is the creative treatment of actuality." — John Grierson, who coined the word
🎬 Six Games. Zero Reenactments.
Talking Heads Trivia
30 questions from Nanook of the North to 20 Days in Mariupol. The canon, the streaming boom, the Oscar shelf, and the slate they clap before every take.
Trivia · 30 QsPlay →
Name That Doc
24 loglines, no posters. A live mic in a bathroom, a cheese sandwich in the Bahamas, an octopus in a kelp forest. One sentence each — you name the film.
Logline Quiz · 24 QsIdentify →
Cutting Room Crossword
A 22-answer grid from the room where docs are really written. Grierson, Shoah, Honnold, Questlove, Sundance, and the boom pole just out of frame.
Crossword · 22 AnswersSolve →
Make Everyone Watch
Not the most important doc — the one you put on for somebody who swears they hate documentaries. Hoop Dreams, Grizzly Man, Free Solo and five more.
Bracket · 8 DocsVote →
B-Roll Connections
Three boards of titles, directors and crew slang. Baseball and Jazz are sitting in the wrong genre on purpose, and Herzog is hiding in the true crime pile.
Connections · 3 BoardsGroup →
Rough Cut Crossclimb
Solve and reorder three word ladders, one letter at a time. The caps spell out three calls you would hear on any doc shoot.
Crossclimb · 3 BoardsClimb →