Mixed Music

Listen to a scrambled musical score and restore the original song.

For additional puzzles based on Christmas songs, see the game: Confused Carols.

Last Updated - 27 November 2023

Added 11 new puzzles.

Added 3 new instruments and made minor improvements to existing instruments.

Improved UI flow.

Puzzles can now specify a preferred instrument.

Improved note-reversal algorithm.

Added additional symbols for 'Blind' challenge mode.

Fixed a bug where solving an already solved puzzle did not return you to the main menu.

(12 Dec 2023) Added a "Stop" button to the title bar that will halt any music playback.  The "Back" button will similarly stop playback if you return to the menu while music is playing.

How to Play

The song list contains short excerpts from (mostly) Hololive talents which are divided into 4-12 measures. When a puzzle is generated, the measures of the song will be randomly mixed up and changed (based on the difficulty level). To solve the puzzle, correct the music to restore the original song.

Click the Play button (or type p) to hear the song correctly. Click the Check button (or type c) to hear the current arrangement of measures. When it matches the original, the puzzle is solved and the song selection menu will be displayed.

To restore the song, click on any measure to select it. Clicking on it again will play that measure in isolation. While selected, you can make changes to correct the music:

• Click on a different measure to swap their positions.
• Click on the Order button (or type o), to change the order of the notes.
• Click on the Pitch button (or type i), to change the pitch of the notes.
• Click on the Length button (or type l), to change the duration of the notes.
• Click on the Key button (or type k), to change the key between major and minor.

(Only the options used in creation of the puzzle will be available.)

When you select a puzzle, song's difficulty level will set the possible puzzle elements automatically. Enabling Customize Puzzle Elements allow these can be changed to make the puzzle easier or harder. Puzzle elements can be Always applied, Never applied, or applied at Random. (Count of the Random elements will be chosen for the puzzle.)

For an additional challenge: Blind mode will hide the notes of each measure. Deaf mode will not allow listening to individual measures, only the complete piece. Memory mode will not allow listening to the original music, you must reconstruct it from memory (or try finding and using the corresponding part from the MV on Youtube).

Acknowledgements

The original music is from COVER Corp. and associated talents with some additional songs from ANYCOLOR Inc. and DOVA-SYNDROME; available under a permissive policy for derivative works. To listen to the official version of the song, the red button in the title of the puzzle links to the youtube release.

Many scores used in the puzzle are largely simplified from excerpts of sheets or performances (or corrected using their work as a reference) by: αlpha sapphire, Captain Meow, chronondecay, DrewyJin, Hachit5222, Jayson Isik Kadusale, kaede000, KisaragiBakufu, Kurolaff, m4554sd, みねたけ, Molybdaen42, NoMorePedals, PianAle, Purple Holo, Raygin, sakuya_shihara, Shio.Piano, Spaghetti-san, 歌太音.UTATANE, Whalien3520.

The concept is derived from a puzzle in The Lost Mind of Dr. Brain by Sierra On-Line.