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70s Album Cover Quiz

87
1970s covers in the pool

Twelve inches of cardboard and a recording budget to match: the seventies were the album cover's imperial period. Hipgnosis was setting stuntmen on fire in a field, Roger Dean was inventing floating islands, and airbrush surrealism was a legitimate career. Every round here shows one zoomed-in fragment of a seventies sleeve — a sliver of prism, a corner of a burning handshake — and four albums to choose from.

Ten rounds, four choices, no timer — and every choice is also a 1970s cover, so there is no giveaway option to eliminate. The pool holds 87 covers, which is enough that two games rarely look alike. Get one wrong and the full sleeve zooms back out with a link to the story behind it: who designed it, who shot it, and why it looks the way it does.

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10 rounds · 4 choices · one zoomed-in detail per cover

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