Fill The Grid archive

Every grid that has already run. The six constraints are listed as they appeared, three down the side and three across the top, and each date links to a playable copy of that day's board. Today's grid is not listed here and will not be until tomorrow.

Why past grids stay playable

A finished daily puzzle is usually worth nothing the day after, which is why most archives are answer keys rather than games. This one is not, for a specific reason: a grid has no single answer. Most cells have dozens of musicians who fit, so replaying a grid somebody else already posted about tells you almost nothing about what they named. The only thing spoiled is the surprise of the constraints themselves, and those are printed on this page anyway.

Replays do not count toward a streak. That is deliberate and it is the one thing separating a streak from a click counter: a number that any page on the site can increase is not a record of consecutive days.

Reading a row

A constraint is one of four kinds. A genre, taken from the musician's own release tags rather than from how they are usually described. A country, from the artist record. The decade they debuted in. Or whether they are a band or one person. The pairings are generated, not curated, and the generator throws away any grid where a cell has no valid answer at all, so a hard cell is hard rather than impossible.

Every grid so far