{"id":924256,"date":"2026-08-02T09:13:52","date_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:13:52","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/if-you-can-complete-these-movie-chains-without-getting-stumped-youre-a-certified-film-expert\/"},"modified":"2026-08-02T09:13:52","modified_gmt":"2026-08-02T14:13:52","slug":"if-you-can-complete-these-movie-chains-without-getting-stumped-youre-a-certified-film-expert","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/2026\/08\/02\/if-you-can-complete-these-movie-chains-without-getting-stumped-youre-a-certified-film-expert\/","title":{"rendered":"If You Can Complete These Movie Chains Without Getting Stumped, You&#8217;re A Certified Film Expert"},"content":{"rendered":"<div>\n<div data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<h2>\n<p>      <span>Welcome to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/page\/reel-deal\">The Reel Deal<\/a>, a daily nostalgic movie chain puzzle! Each day will bring you an easy, medium, and hard puzzle to solve \u2014 plus one bonus *nostalgia* puzzle focusing on a specific decade.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<h2>\n<p>      <span><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/newsletters\/buzzfeed-games\">Sign up here<\/a> to get notified every time we publish a new The Reel Deal! \ud83d\udcec<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div data-keywords=\"cleaning\" data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<h2>\n<p>      <span>\ud83c\udfac HOW TO PLAY: Each puzzle is a chain that connects two actors through the movies they&#8217;ve appeared in \u2014 but watch out for decoys (movies or actors who don&#8217;t fit into the solution). There are three levels of difficulty, with more decoys appearing as the puzzles get harder.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<div data-keywords=\"cleaning\" data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<h2>\n<p>      <span>\ud83c\udf7f Note: There might be a shorter or different way to connect these actors (and hey, I&#8217;d love to hear about them in the comments), but there&#8217;s only one correct solution using the pool of movies and actors listed.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<p>New puzzles drop every weekday at 6 a.m. ET.\u00a0<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<div data-module=\"subbuzz-text\">\n<h2>\n<p>      <span>Let me know how you did in the comments! Any thoughts or feedback? And check out <a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/page\/reel-deal\">The Reel Deal<\/a> archive for more puzzles.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/h2>\n<\/div>\n<\/div>\n<p> Joan Motsinger<br \/><a href=\"https:\/\/www.buzzfeed.com\/jenniferabidor\/the-reel-deal-game-july-10-2026\" class=\"button purchase\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Read More<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Welcome to The Reel Deal, a daily nostalgic movie chain puzzle! Each day will bring you an easy, medium, and hard puzzle to solve \u2014 plus one bonus *nostalgia* puzzle focusing on a specific decade. Sign up here to get notified every time we publish a new The Reel Deal! \ud83d\udcec \ud83c\udfac HOW TO PLAY:<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":924257,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4983,43],"tags":[6963,5160],"class_list":["post-924256","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-complete","category-these","tag-complete","tag-these"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924256","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=924256"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/924256\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/924257"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=924256"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=924256"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsycanuse.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=924256"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}