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Comment by kfichter | Hacker News Reader

A few different movies have this song in it, would be cool to accept any of the correct answers, depending on how easy that is.

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I considered this, but given the way the clues are revealed i think I had to commit to a single answer per needledrop. I mentioned in the 'how to play' disclaimer the subjective nature of the curated list: We’ve selected what we believe to be the first or most iconic instance of each Needle Drop.

Doesn't make it any less frustrating when it doesn't accept a technically correct answer though.

For instances of this that the system knows about, you could add a response that says, “technically correct but not what I’m looking for.” Similar to how one would do it in real life.

What clues? I listened through an entire song and nothing was presented. Although I also noticed the bug that I could click and drag to see a frame from the movie.

I felt like if I didn't know in the first 5 seconds, I wasn't going to know, and there wasn't anything to do but listen to another 2 minutes of music or close it.

I was going to mention the same issue. Not sure how the site decides which is the correct answer, especially considering both possible answers were available in the autocomplete selections.

Indeed, my guess was Cheech & Chong:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eSAOKuO5W8E

My first thought was Dazed and Confused. I'm not sure if it's more iconic in Gone in 60 Seconds, as I've never seen it.

Up In Smoke, Dazed and Confused, and Gone in 60 Seconds are all quite iconic.

Why wouldn't they just accept any of the three?

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