AFL Wordle — Guess the AFL player

Eight names is your limit on the AFL Wordle board. Start with a player you recognise, then compare the facts revealed by each guess. Switch to Classic for the archive challenge: One AFL player, 15 guesses. You start with the era, a single fact and a free example. After 4 misses the club's city is revealed, and after 7 another exact fact arrives with the option to open the answer. Each name you submit is laid out as a full row against the answer.

The name you entered is placed first by position, season and club. The board then sets K, HB, DIS, TAK and GP against the mystery player's real senior season. A deep green cell is exact, green close, gold similar, and the arrow points toward the true answer.

Yes, in the way that matters: one AFL player daily, a fixed number of attempts, colour-coded rows. Anyone searching afl wordle or aussie rules wordle is describing this, with the VFL/AFL record supplying the answers.

Yes — the club and the era first, then the real season numbers, and you name the player from the route. With the competition running back to 1897 the club alone often places a career within a couple of decades. "By stats" and "by the clubs they played for" are the same board — era, club and the genuine season numbers.

AFL and VFL footballers with real senior careers, across the competition's full history. Curated, so the answer is a name the game remembers rather than a handful of senior games.

Wordle and Classic each have a daily board. One a day, no unlimited mode, though you can go back for any Wordle you missed in the past six days, or further back for 200 Pennants a board. Midnight Eastern is the changeover, which lands during the afternoon in Melbourne — so an Australian day and an American day share the same answer. The draft game below has no daily limit if you want to keep playing. More games with AFL players: AFL Grid, AFL Connections and Build an AFL Player. AFL Trivia Quiz asks three questions a day. Guess the AFL Team asks for the club of one era’s players. The AFL Ball Knowledge Dive asks for one right name, and the less obvious it is, the more it scores.

Open with a decorated player from the 1990s or 2000s: the era lands immediately and the club list shortens with it.

The two modes keep separate streaks. The AFL streak stands alone and lives on the device you play on. A reveal closes the day but is not a win, so the count begins again.

Australian rules records in the archive start in 1897, the founding season of the competition that became the AFL, and run to last year. It is a longer continuous history than the NBA or the NHL, held inside a much smaller set of clubs.

A small club list across a long history means the era does most of the separating here. Two players from the same club can sit ninety years apart, so the decade is usually the clue that moves you furthest.

All-Australian selections, the Brownlow, the Coleman. The Brownlow is voted by umpires round by round, so it reads as a verdict on a whole season rather than a single highlight.

Many are in the Australian Football Hall of Fame, but the board reaches wider — a player who dominated one decade for one club is a likely answer regardless.

A real senior season: position, club and years, with the disposals, marks or goals that season posted, and honours where the record has them. No ratings are shown.

No pictures. Era, club and the genuine season line is the whole card, which keeps a 1900s answer answerable on the same terms as a modern one. No photos, silhouettes or emoji rounds — era, club and the numbers.

There is an AFL career game as well — one player, drafted young, played through home-and-away seasons and September, measured against the same VFL/AFL history this board hides its answers in.

The other nine sports each deal their own daily player, and that archive also builds the Daily Challenge board. Try NFL Wordle, NBA Wordle, MLB Wordle, Soccer Wordle, CFB Wordle, Cricket Wordle, Golf Wordle, NHL Wordle, WNBA Wordle, or the Daily Challenge board.