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90s Album Cover Quiz

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1990s covers in the pool

Nineties covers had to survive being shrunk to a CD jewel case, and the great ones did it by picking one unforgettable image and committing. A baby in a swimming pool. A burning man mid-stride. A queue of kids on a Queensbridge stoop. This quiz crops them down further still, to a single detail, and asks you to name the record.

Ten rounds, four choices, no timer — and every choice is also a 1990s cover, so there is no giveaway option to eliminate. The pool holds 83 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.

The Detail

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

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