Nine squares. Find a player for every pair of clues.
A three-by-three board. Each row is a condition and each column is another — a club, a draft round, an award, a career milestone — and every square wants one player who satisfies both the row it sits in and the column above it. Nine squares, one player each, and no name may be used twice. When a team crosses an award, the player must have played for that team in the award season. Career totals include all teams.
Pick a square, type a player who fits both of its conditions, and submit. A list of matching names appears as you type, so you never have to spell anybody exactly. A correct name fills the square and is spent for the rest of the board.
9 counted guesses. A player in the sport’s search pool uses one guess, right or wrong. An unrecognized name or a player already used on the board costs nothing.
The board is scored and the score stops moving — but it stays playable. Filling squares afterwards is overtime: those answers are marked, kept out of the score, and drawn differently on the shared grid, because finding the answer is the good part and a result you share should not flatter itself.
Your score is the number of squares filled correctly within the first nine guesses. Every correct answer counts equally. Overtime answers fill the board but do not add to your score.
Search the sport’s recorded player pool, including less familiar names. A suggested name still has to meet both conditions to count. Each daily board uses a fixed set of recorded facts, and a player already used on that board cannot be used again.
Public record only — the clubs a player appeared for, the seasons they played, the college they came through, the round they went in, the awards they won, the career totals the record book itself treats as milestones. Nothing is a rating or an opinion, so every square can be checked afterwards.
One a day for each league, the same board for everybody, turning over at midnight Eastern — the same rollover the rest of the site runs on. Today’s grid is the grid everyone else is on until that hour comes round again.
NFL, NBA, MLB, NHL, soccer, WNBA, college football, college basketball, AFL and cricket, each with a board of its own every day. They are separate games drawn from each league’s own record, so playing one does not use up another.
Free, and no. The board opens straight into the game and nothing is asked for before or after a result. Progress lives in your own browser, so clearing your data clears it too.
Yes — nine coloured squares, the score, and a link. No names travel with it, so posting a result cannot spoil the day for whoever opens it.
