One skater a day, 15 tries. The era first, then the sweater, then the season that made him.
One skater a day, 15 tries. The era first, then the sweater, then the season that made him.
15 guesses at one NHL player. The era, one fact and a free example are given up front, the city unlocks at 4 misses, and 7 misses buys another exact fact plus the option to reveal. Every guess draws a full comparison row: deep green exact, green close, gold similar.
Skaters and goaltenders are scored on different things entirely, so a day belongs to one group — Skaters or Goalies — and the comparison stays inside it. The board says which, then holds your guess up against the mystery player's real season. Deep green exact, green close, gold similar, arrow toward the answer.
The daily-puzzle shape holds: one NHL player, limited guesses, colour on every row. Search nhl wordle, nhl player wordle or hockey wordle and this is the board people mean — the answer comes from the league's history rather than a five-letter word list.
Yes. Era, sweater and the real season line, and you work back to the name. Hockey rewards it more than most: the league went from six teams to more than thirty, so the club and the era together narrow a career very fast. The same thing people call "by stats", "by teams played for" or "by position" — era, sweater and the real season line.
NHL names with real league careers, from the current game back through the Original Six. Curated on purpose, so the answer is never a call-up nobody has heard of.
One player a day, and no unlimited version. Midnight Eastern is the changeover: same board, same day, whether you are in Toronto or Tampa. If one puzzle is not enough, the draft below spins NHL eras without a daily cap.
A well-known forward from the 1990s is the cleanest opener: it fixes the era, and the sweater and the scoring line both read straight away.
Hockey counts a separate streak on your device, apart from every other sport. Revealing the skater ends the day but never as a win, so the run returns to zero.
NHL seasons in the archive begin in 1917, the league's founding year, and run to last season. Over that span the game moved from six teams to more than thirty, which is why the era and the sweater together narrow a guess so quickly.
The Original Six years concentrate a lot of history into very few rosters, so an early answer has fewer places to hide but far fewer familiar names. Post-expansion decades reverse both. The era clue tells you which of those you are working in.
The Hart, the Vezina, the Calder, All-Star selections — hockey's trophies are unusually specific about what a player was, which makes them a strong clue about the answer's position and role.
A fair number, though the pool is curated for recognisable names rather than for the Hall. A player who defined one era's team can be the answer without ever being inducted.
One season from the record book: the position, the city and years, and either the goals-and-assists line or the goaltending line, with league leads and honours where they exist. No ratings.
No pictures or silhouettes — the card is the era, the club and the numbers. Helmets make hockey the worst sport in the world to identify by face, which is part of why the route through the league is the better clue. No photo, silhouette, emoji or highlight — and helmets would make a face the worst clue in sport anyway.
Yes — the NHL career simulator hands you a major-junior route and a draft year, then a player’s whole run: the deals, the moves, the last sweater. Same NHL archive as this board, pointed forward instead of backward.
Nine more sports run a daily player, and the Daily Challenge board is dealt from that same archive. Try Football, Basketball, Baseball, Soccer, College, Cricket, Golf, WNBA, Aussie Rules, or the Daily Challenge board.
