FootyFacts Board is a free daily soccer puzzle. Every day there is one new three-by-three grid, identical for everybody who plays it. Three categories run down the side and three across the top, so each of the nine cells is an intersection of two of them — "Played for Ajax" crossed with "Won the Champions League", for instance. Your job is to name a footballer whose career satisfies both.
What makes it more than a quiz is the scoring. There is no single correct answer to a cell — often dozens of players qualify — and the more obvious your pick, the fewer points it is worth. Naming the player everybody thinks of first is worth almost nothing. Digging out a genuine deep cut who nobody else would produce is worth many times more. Finishing the board is not the achievement; finishing it with answers nobody else found is.
Read the full rules → · How to actually score well →
Each valid answer is worth between 5 and 200 points, and the value falls the better known the player is. Within a cell the game models how likely each candidate is to be the answer somebody reaches for, then converts that to points on a logarithmic scale — roughly ten points for every halving of how obvious the pick is. Your board score is the sum of the nine cells, minus 25 for each hint.
The game deliberately never shows you a percentage. Earlier versions displayed a "only 4% of players picked this" figure, which was a simulation rather than measured data, so it was removed. A point value is honest about being a scoring rule. The full derivation is here →
The Players / Teams toggle at the top of the board switches the whole game over to clubs: the same nine cells, the same scoring, but you are naming a club rather than a footballer. Clubs are single fixed records rather than long careers, which makes the cells narrower and the colour and founding-date categories matter far more than they otherwise would. How Teams mode differs →
Boards are drawn from a dataset of 32,639 professional footballers, covering 9,591 clubs and 184 national teams, derived from Wikidata and committed to the site so every visitor gets an identical copy.
The standard applied to it is that a category ships only if the underlying fact can be sourced reliably. That has meant deleting work: career caps, goal tallies, league title counts, retirement years and several hand-curated traits were all built and then removed, because the source data was not good enough to make them true often enough. A puzzle that rejects a correct answer is worse than a puzzle with fewer categories.
What is in the dataset → · Every category and its size → · Every national team → · Sources and methodology →
Every past daily is replayable from the Archive tab, and the most recent fortnight is also written up cell by cell — the six categories, how many players qualified for each cell, and a named sample of who they actually were.
Advertising, and nothing else. There is no paid tier, nothing is gated, and no data is sold. Ads are deliberately absent from screens that are pure interface — loading states, error screens and competition lobbies carry none. What the ads collect, and your choices →