How Gridiron Guess works
A daily NFL guessing game. Same five players for everyone, every day.
The basics
- Five NFL player puzzles every day.
- For each one, guess the player from the clues shown. You have 6 guesses per puzzle.
- Each wrong guess narrows things down by revealing matches (team, position, college, draft year).
- New puzzles drop every day at midnight Eastern Time.
- Everyone plays the same five players on the same day, so scores are directly comparable.
- Once you finish a round, that's it for the day — come back tomorrow.
Scoring
- Every puzzle starts at 100 points.
- Each wrong guess costs 15 points.
- Revealing optional clues costs points (see below).
- Taking too long costs points (see the timer section).
- If you don't solve the puzzle, you get 0 for that question.
Clues you can reveal
- Position — 30 pts
- Jersey number — 20 pts
- Draft year — 15 pts
- Years active — 15 pts
- Hometown — 5 pts
The 60-second timer
- You get 60 seconds per puzzle.
- The first 15 seconds are free — no penalty.
- After that, you lose 5 points for every 15 seconds that pass, up to a max of 15 points.
- If the timer hits 0, the puzzle ends as a miss.
The five difficulty tiers
- Q1 · Rookie — easiest, household names.
- Q2 · Backup — solid starters and recent stars.
- Q3 · Starter — you need to know the league.
- Q4 · Pro Bowler — deep cuts and journeymen.
- Q5 · Hall of Famer — only true diehards get this one.
The leaderboard
- You'll see the top scores for the day.
- Your row is pinned so you can always find yourself.
- Your name comes from your account — sign in to be ranked.
Streaks
- Win at least one puzzle in a day and your streak grows by one.
- Miss a day and your streak resets to zero.
- Your longest streak is saved separately, so a slip-up doesn't erase your best run.
Sharing
- After your round, you can copy a clean recap — date, colored squares for each puzzle, your total score, and a link back to gridironguess.app.
- Green square = solved. Red square = missed. Empty square = didn't play.