The music game that carries your New Year's Eve to midnight

Every New Year's Eve hits the same wall: the food's done, midnight is still a way off, and the room starts checking phones. Tunigma is built for exactly that stretch, and it happens to suit the night in more than one way.

A game about years, on the night the year turns

There's something fitting about spending the last hours of the year guessing which year songs came out. Open the whole timeline and the evening becomes a tour through music history, from the crooners your parents claim to the hits that defined the last twelve months. It doubles as a natural year in review: play a round of nothing but recent releases and you've got an instant countdown of the songs everyone actually remembers from the year gone by.

Run a bracket up to midnight

Because a round only takes a few minutes, it's easy to string several together into something bigger. Split the room into teams and run a knockout across the evening: a couple of rounds before the food settles, a couple more as it gets closer, and a final showdown timed to finish just before the countdown. The winning team carries their bragging rights into the new year. It's the kind of structure that keeps a party moving instead of drifting until midnight.

Set it to whoever showed up

New Year's crowds are a mixed bag, old friends, new faces, and a few plus-ones nobody knows. Tune the music to match by decade, genre, and country, so there's something for everyone in the room. It plays the songs itself, so there's no Spotify or other streaming app to fuss with while you're trying to host.

One phone, teams, the big screen

One phone runs the whole thing while everyone else follows the live Watch page in a browser, which is ideal on the TV so a full room can play in teams and cheer each guess. There are no cards, it's a free download, and it's ready whenever the party is. You handle the people and the countdown, and Tunigma handles the music.