The hardest Grateful Dead songs to name from the lyric

Every day, the Jamband Games Grateful Dead lyric game shows players one line from a song by the Grateful Dead and gives them three guesses to name it. These are the real results, hardest first, as of October 15, 2026. Songs show up here a week after their puzzle, so nobody gets a spoiler.

1. Uncle John's Band · Workingman's Dead

   Named by 91% of players; 64% got it from the first lyric: “I live in a silver mine and I call it beggar's tomb / I got me a violin and I beg you call the tune”

2. Scarlet Begonias · From the Mars Hotel

   Named by 94% of players; 69% got it from the first lyric: “She was too pat to open”

3. Friend of the Devil · American Beauty

   Named by 98% of players; 93% got it from the first lyric: “Got two reasons why I cry away each lonely night”

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