FilmLink

FilmLink is a daily puzzle that asks you to connect two movies by traveling through the people who made them. You start on one film and try to reach a target film by hopping across shared cast and crew members. Its creator describes it as the Wiki Game for movies, built entirely around cinema instead of encyclopedia links.

What is FilmLink?

Each day FilmLink hands you a source movie and a target movie. From the source, you pick one of its cast or crew members, which moves you to that person. From that person you pick another of their films, and from that film you pick another person, continuing the chain until your path arrives at the target. Each link takes you from a movie to a person, then from that person to another movie. The whole puzzle is one act of route-finding across a graph where movies and people are the nodes and their working relationships are the edges. There is no hidden answer to guess; the task is finding a short, valid trail from the source to the target.

FilmLink is not a guessing game. Letter and word grid games ask you to deduce a single concealed answer, and single-answer movie games like Framed give you screenshots and one target title. FilmLink instead measures how efficiently you navigate. A shorter path, meaning fewer movie-to-person-to-movie hops, usually earns a better efficiency score, and your solve time counts too. It is close to the Wiki Game and the Six Degrees idea applied to film, and it is different from connection-grid formats like Cine2Nerdle because you walk a chain rather than fill a board.

FilmLink was shared through a Show HN post on Hacker News by the user danore2, and it launched in February 2026. Beyond the daily puzzle, it offers a live multiplayer mode, noted as being in beta, along with private leagues that let you compete with friends and a global leaderboard that ranks players by their steps and time. The project reads as a small independent release rather than one tied to a known studio.

When you finish a puzzle, FilmLink tracks the number of steps in your path and how long you took, and a shorter path usually means a better efficiency score. There is no stated cap on the number of moves you can make, so you are free to take a longer route and still solve it, though a sprawling path will cost you on the scoreboard. The game is free to play and gives you one fresh source-and-target pairing per day.

How to play FilmLink

1. Open FilmLink at filmlink.io.
2. Read the source movie and the target movie you have been given for the day.
3. From the source movie, select one of its cast or crew members to move to that person.
4. From that person, pick another of their films, then continue hopping person to film until you reach the target.
5. Aim to complete the chain in as few steps as you can, since a shorter path usually scores better.
6. Check your step count, solve time, and efficiency score after you connect the two films, and see where you land on the global leaderboard.

Tips and strategy

• Favor prolific actors and directors as stepping stones, since a person with a long filmography opens more onward links than a one-role bit player.
• Think about the target first and work out which well-known people are attached to it, then look for a film that bridges toward them.
• When you can, meet in the middle: work forward from the source and backward from the target so you can spot where the two chains overlap.
• Take the most direct link you can see rather than a scenic route through favorite films, since fewer steps score better.
• Keep an eye on your solve time as well as your path length, because both feed your leaderboard standing.
• Performers who work repeatedly with the same collaborators create dense webs you can travel through quickly, so lean on those clusters.

Good to know

Category

Movies and TV

Resets

Daily, one new puzzle per day

Cost

Free to play

Moves

No stated move cap; scored on path length (steps)

Modes

Daily puzzle; live multiplayer (beta); private leagues; global leaderboard

Feedback

Step count, solve time, efficiency score, leaderboard rank

Creator

Shared on Hacker News by the user danore2

Launched

February 2026

FilmLink FAQ

Is FilmLink free?

Yes. FilmLink is free to play, with one puzzle available each day at no cost.

How do you play FilmLink?

You are given a source movie and a target movie. You move by picking a cast or crew member on your current film, which takes you to that person, then to another of their films, and you keep hopping until your path reaches the target. Reaching it in fewer steps and less time earns a better score.

When does FilmLink reset?

FilmLink gives you a new source-and-target pairing each day. An archive of past daily puzzles was not confirmed.

Is FilmLink like Wordle?

Not really. Wordle is about deducing one hidden answer, while FilmLink is a path-finding puzzle where you navigate a graph of films and people to connect two known movies. Its creator describes it as the Wiki Game for movies.

Who made FilmLink?

FilmLink was shared through a Show HN post on Hacker News by the user danore2. It reads as a small independent project.