Unusual SuspectEN · FR
Suspect #001 — sketch complete

Twelve films
built this guy.
Name them.

A free daily film game. One drawn suspect behind the glass, assembled from twelve different films.

A hat from one. A glove from another. The boots from a third. Identify all 12 parts with 3 lives, and you win by recognising, not by reading.

Read the case fileThe line-up is not open yet. This is the trailer.
  • Free forever
  • No ads
  • No account
  • 3 minutes a day
A drawn police line-up suspect: bowler hat, bathrobe, one red racing sleeve, a bladed glove, a glowing briefcase and white platform boots.
Evidence0/12 examined

Twelve films built this guy.

Tap a marker to see what he borrowed.

House rule: no faces, no logos, no names in the artwork

File 01The problem

You know it from the coat.

Film knowledge is a reflex. You see a glove, a pair of boots, a bathrobe, and you know where it came from before you can explain why.

The daily-game slot for cinema is full of text: frames, tiles, criteria, crosswords of actors. Reading exercises. And you leave with a row of coloured squares, never an image worth keeping.

What exists

  • A frame, cropped smaller
  • A grid of tiles and criteria
  • A crossword of actors
  • Ad-cluttered hidden-object portals
  • Coloured squares to paste

What is missing

  • One drawing
  • Twelve punchlines at once
  • Recognition, instant and physical
  • Zero ads beside it
  • A picture worth keeping
File 02How a line-up runs

One suspect. Twelve parts. Three lives.

Four to six minutes, no timer, no pressure. Hints are subtle and only given when asked: a year, a country, a line the inspector half-remembers. Never a list of titles.

  1. 01

    Tap a part

    The part lifts out of the glass into a small evidence frame. One field: which film?

  2. 02

    Type the film

    Three letters is enough. French and English titles both count, accents optional.

  3. 03

    Cleared

    The part snaps into place in green, a stamp reads cleared, and the inspector says one dry line.

  4. 04

    Case closed

    Twelve parts, and he is shown whole for three seconds. Then your rap sheet builds itself.

ClearedCase closedCold caseThree ways a session ends
File 03House rules

The rules that keep it good.

  • R1

    Never a face, never a logo, never a name in the artwork

    We evoke through costume, prop, silhouette and posture. The restraint is the game.

  • R2

    No ads next to the suspect

    Not one, ever. He is the only rich image on the screen and he stays that way.

  • R3

    No account, no password, no gate

    The archive is open, all of it, from the first visit. Your progress lives in a cookie.

  • R4

    Free forever, in English and in French

    Both languages from day one, with film titles in the language you play in.

File 04The next ones

Every genre is another suspect.

The format is a factory. Every decade, director, festival and country is one more body to assemble, and the archive stays open and free forever.

  • Pack — Horror 80s
  • Pack — Tarantino
  • Pack — Ghibli
  • Pack — Cannes
  • Pack — French cinema
  • Hard mode
A second suspect, almost entirely in shadow behind the line-up glass: a straw hat with goggles, a yellow jacket, a life-vest sleeve, a harpoon, a potted plant, one flipper and one work boot.
Suspect #002 — still with the sketch artist
File 05The only thing we sell

The File

The game is free and stays free: no ads, no subscription, no gated archive. The only thing sold is The File, the archive artbook: a downloadable PDF of every suspect released so far in full resolution, with the notes on all twelve references of each.

€19.90, one time. A new edition ships every 100 suspects. It unlocks nothing in the game, because nothing in the game is locked.

Not on sale yet

Twelve films. One guy. Three minutes.

The first line-up opens soon. Until then, the fastest thing you can do is send this to the friend who will argue about part 7.

Copies this page. Nothing else happens.
Rap sheetExample

Suspect #001

Score
9/12
Elapsed
1:42
Hints used
1
Cold caseHe walks. The parts you got were right, though.