NHL Wordle

Pick a hockey player and work toward the mystery name. You have eight shots on the Wordle board, and each selection adds a row of comparison clues. Switch to Classic for the archive challenge: 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 — a hockey Wordle whose answer comes from the league's history rather than a five-letter word list. The same board works as an NHL quiz: one player to identify, with every guess graded against the answer.

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.

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.

Wordle and Classic each have a daily board. One player a day, and no unlimited version, though the six Wordle boards before today's are still there to play, with older ones at 200 Pennants each. 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. More games with NHL players: NHL Grid, NHL Connections and Build an NHL Player. NHL Trivia Quiz asks three questions a day. Guess the NHL Team asks for the city of one era’s players. The NHL Ball Knowledge Dive asks for one right name, and the less obvious it is, the more it scores.

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.

The two modes keep separate streaks. 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.

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 NFL Wordle, NBA Wordle, MLB Wordle, Soccer Wordle, CFB Wordle, Cricket Wordle, Golf Wordle, WNBA Wordle, AFL Wordle, or the Daily Challenge board.