What's This Video

What's This Video (shortened to WTV in its own title) covers one music video a day, buried under a layer of TV static so you can only make out fragments of it. The game describes itself as being in the same family as Wordle, Heardle, and Framed, just built around music videos instead of words, songs, or movie stills. It runs in the browser at whatsthisvideo.com with no app to install.

What is What's This Video?

What's This Video takes a single music video and hides it behind a screen of TV static, the kind of visual noise you would see on an old analog TV with no signal. The player's job is to work out which video is hidden underneath, using whatever fragments of color, shape, and motion manage to show through the static. It is a visual guessing game first, built around a single hidden clip rather than a grid of letters or a short audio snippet.

The site describes itself as sitting alongside Wordle, Heardle, and Framed, three of the games that helped popularize the daily one-puzzle-a-day format after Wordle's breakout in late 2021. Each of those games hides its answer behind a different kind of veil: Wordle hides a word behind letter-by-letter feedback, Heardle hid a song behind a short audio clip, and Framed hides a movie behind still frames, revealing another frame with each guess. What's This Video applies that same daily-reveal idea to the visual side of music, using static interference over a video clip instead of an audio snippet or a movie still.

Some of the finer details, such as how many guesses you get, what time the puzzle resets, and whether there is an archive of past videos, are not published anywhere outside the game itself, so this entry does not list them. What the site does confirm directly is that the game is live and working, that it is free, and that a new video is featured every day.

The format keeps things simple: one short round a day, quick to try in the browser, and built around the small satisfaction of recognizing a music video from very little visual information.

How to play What's This Video

1. Open What's This Video at whatsthisvideo.com.
2. Look at the day's clip, which is shown covered in TV static rather than clearly.
3. Use whatever colors, shapes, or motion you can make out to think about which music video it might be.
4. Enter your guess for the music video.
5. Check whether your guess was correct.
6. Come back the next day for a new hidden video.

Tips and strategy

• Focus on color patterns and motion showing through the static. They are often the first real clue before anything else is recognizable.
• Think about the general era of the video. Older and newer videos tend to have distinct color grading and camera styles that peek through static differently.
• Keep a mental shortlist of visually iconic music videos. Distinctive sets, costumes, or effects are easier to recognize from partial information than an average video is.
• Watch the clip for a while before committing to a guess. A repeated motion or a recurring shape can give away more than a first glance.
• Treat it as a daily habit rather than a one-off, since the whole format is built around a single new video each day.
• If a guess feels like a stretch, consider the artist's broader catalog and whether a more famous video by them fits better.

Good to know

Category

Music

Format

Daily puzzle, one music video per day

Cost

Free

Platform

Web browser

Inspired by

Described by the site itself as being in the tradition of Wordle, Heardle, and Framed

Domain

whatsthisvideo.com

What's This Video FAQ

Is What's This Video free to play?

Yes. The site's own description identifies it as a free daily game.

How do you play What's This Video?

Each day the site features one music video hidden behind a layer of TV static. You look at whatever comes through the static and guess which music video it is.

Is What's This Video like Wordle or Heardle?

The site describes itself as being in that same lineage, a daily one-puzzle format, just applied to music videos instead of words or audio clips.

Does a new video come out every day?

Yes, the game is built around featuring a new hidden music video each day.