Cricket Wordle — Guess the cricketer

Cricket Wordle is a daily name hunt with eight attempts. Pick a cricketer from the list and use the player clues to work out who is hiding. Switch to Classic for the archive challenge: One cricketer per day, 15 attempts. The era, one opening fact and a free example are there before you start. After 4 misses the country and city appear; after 7 another exact fact lands and you may open the answer outright. Each guess adds its own comparison row — deep green exact, green close, gold similar.

Bat and ball do not share a scale, so the day runs on one discipline — Bowlers, Batters or All-rounders — and compares only within it. The board names which, then sets your guess against the mystery cricketer's real career figures. Deep green is an exact hit, green close, gold roughly right, with an arrow pointing toward the true number.

Same once-a-day format, cricketing subject. Rows shade by era, side and output instead of letters landing green, so it is a cricket Wordle in everything but the spelling.

Yes — the teams a player turned out for, the era they played in, and the real numbers from their signature season. That path is the whole clue, and in cricket it travels further than most: the same name can carry a county, a franchise and a Test side.

Internationals with real Test and limited-overs careers, across the full history of the game and every major nation. Curated, so the answer is a cricketer the format is actually known for.

Wordle and Classic each have a daily board. No, one a day, and a missed Wordle day stays open for six days after it, while older boards take 200 Pennants to open. The player changes at midnight Eastern, which lands mid-morning in India and in the Australian afternoon — everyone still gets the same answer for the same calendar day, which is the whole point of a single board across that many time zones. The draft game underneath runs unlimited, whenever you want it. More games with cricket players: Cricket Grid, Cricket Connections and Build a Cricket Player.

Pick a well-known international from the 1990s or 2000s and you learn the discipline and the country in one move — the two things that cut a global field hardest before any number is compared.

The two modes keep separate streaks. Cricket holds its own streak on your device rather than an account, so it never mixes with the other sports. A revealed answer ends the day without counting as a win, and the run resets.

Cricket's record reaches back to 1877 and the first Test match, which makes it the oldest continuous archive on this site alongside baseball. Formats changed completely across that span, which is why the board names the discipline before it compares a single number.

Eras separate more sharply in cricket than in most sports: a pre-war batting average and a modern limited-overs strike rate are not the same measurement of the same game. The board names the era first so you are comparing like with like.

Wisden recognition and the honours the format keeps, beside the runs or wickets themselves. Cricket's numbers shift completely between eras and formats, so what a player was recognised for often travels further than an average.

Some are, but cricket's honour record runs deeper than any hall — a player with a long international career is a likely answer whether or not an institution has recognised them.

One real career line: role, country and years, and the runs, wickets or averages the record actually holds, with honours where they exist. No ratings are ever shown.

No photographs. You get the era, the teams and the real figures — which suits cricket better anyway, since a career spanning formats is described far more precisely by its record than by a face.

Yes — the cricket career game runs the other direction from this one: you are given a domestic route and a first cap, and the seasons you bat and bowl are checked against the record book instead of hidden inside it.

Every sport here runs its own daily player, cricket included, and the same archive deals the Daily Challenge board. Try NFL Wordle, NBA Wordle, MLB Wordle, Soccer Wordle, CFB Wordle, Golf Wordle, NHL Wordle, WNBA Wordle, AFL Wordle, or the Daily Challenge board.