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Vinyl collection games from your own records

By Published 3 min read
Record sleeves fanned out like playing cards next to a brass stopwatch

Know your collection is a set of five short games in Shelfify, found under Challenges, and every question comes from your own records: your covers, your shelves, your pressings. Nobody else gets the same game, because nobody else has your collection.

In the Records tab, tap the round record button at the bottom right and choose Challenges. The games open once your collection has at least 50 records in at least 4 compartments.

The five games

  • Focus Pull: a cover starts completely blurred and sharpens against the clock. Name the record early for more points.
  • Shelf Hunt: your room is drawn the way you set it up. Tap the exact compartment a record lives in. Fast finds earn a bonus, and the right shelf still earns some points.
  • Older or Newer: you see the year your copy of a record was pressed. Was the next one pressed earlier or later? Keep the run going.
  • First In: sixty seconds. Two records at a time: tap the one you added to your collection first, as many times as you can. A wrong tap costs three seconds.
  • Label Swipe: "Released on Columbia?" Swipe right if it is true, left if it is not. You have 45 seconds, and a wrong answer costs four of them.
The five games in Shelfify with their best scores, next to a Focus Pull round with a blurred cover and four albums to choose from

Why it is more than a quiz

Shelf Hunt is secretly practice. After a few rounds you know where things are without opening the app, which is the whole point of mapping your shelves. Older or Newer makes you guess when your own copies were pressed, and First In brings back records you bought years ago and forgot about.

Shelf Hunt, Older or Newer, First In and Label Swipe in play, with records by Leonard Cohen, The National, Billie Eilish and Radiohead

Scores, streaks and sharing

  • Each game keeps your best score. Play any game on consecutive days to build a streak.
  • At the end of a game, share your result as a picture: your score, the covers from the round and a dare to beat it on their own shelf.
  • Everything runs offline, from the data already on your phone. The games work on iPhone, iPad, Android and Macs with Apple silicon.
  • The year in Older or Newer is the year your copy was pressed, which can differ from the album's first release.
The result of an Older or Newer run of 12, and the challenge card it shares with the covers of the round

A round takes a minute. Play one while the kettle boils, and see how well you really know your shelves.

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