Nine categories were displayed. Each category was the clue to the title of a song, and each one hid a point value. The player in control chose a category, revealing how many points the category was worth. The higher the points were, the more difficult the song would be to identify. After a category was chosen, Miller would tell the players the year the song was released, the singer's music style, whether the singer was a man or woman (or in other cases, whether it was sung by a duo or group), and the song's peak position on the "Billboard" music charts; if the song was a country song or pop song, the contestants were told of the peak position on either of those charts, while if the song reached the "Billboard" Hot 100 its peak position on that chart would be revealed.