Daily basketball games

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These daily games are all about the NBA, with one grid for the WNBA. The player guessers hide one name a day and compare each try on team, conference, position, height, age or jersey number. The grids want a player for every square where a franchise meets a stat line, an award or a draft class, and some score how rare your picks were.

Others work from the record book: a career table with the team names masked, a roster from one era revealed least famous player first, a single still from a historic game, a chain of teammates from one star to another, and five moments to put in order. One builds a player from thirteen drafted skills.

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Poeltl

poeltl.nbpa.com · Sports

Eight guesses to find the mystery NBA player, with each guess compared on team, conference, division, position, height, age and jersey number, from the players' union.

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NBAdle

bingedle.com · Sports

Pick the hidden NBA player by narrowing down his team and conference, position, home country, height, age and championship rings with every try.

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Guess the NBA Player

guesstheplayer.org · Sports

Name the mystery NBA player in ten tries, with tiles comparing each guess's draft year, team, division, position, jersey number and country.

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NBA Wordle

draftchallenger.com · Sports

Each NBA player you name is graded match, close or miss on position, height, age, number, team, conference and division, with eight tries, or 15 in Classic.

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Immaculate Grid: Men's Basketball

Sports Reference · sports-reference.com · Sports

Pick NBA players who fit each pairing of franchise and stat category across a nine-square board, with nine guesses and a rarity score that rewards deep cuts.

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Immaculate Grid: Women's Basketball

Sports Reference · sports-reference.com · Sports

A WNBA-focused grid where each square crosses a team, college or season stat, and you have nine guesses to name a qualifying player for all of them.

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Hoopgrids

hoopgrids.com · Sports

An NBA player grid with unlimited guesses per square and live rarity scoring, plus hint and reverse modes and a one-on-one challenge against a friend.

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NBA Grid

draftchallenger.com · Sports

Match an NBA player to each of nine squares where two clues cross, such as a team plus a draft decade or an award, within nine guesses before overtime begins.

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Basketball 5

basketball-5.com · Sports

A hub of NBA puzzles, including a top-ten list, bingo, a player grid, a Wordle-style name guess and classic player guessing.

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NBA Connections

draftchallenger.com · Sports

Split sixteen NBA names into four hidden sets of four, linked by teams, honors, draft years, colleges or jersey numbers, with six mistakes to spare.

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NBA Chainle

wordlecup.today · Sports

Build a teammate path from one NBA star to another, each link needing a real game the two shared, with hints and a practice mode for extra pairs.

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Ball Don't Cry

balldontcry.com · Sports

Identify an NBA player from a career table of per-season averages with team names masked, across three puzzles each day.

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Guess the NBA Team

draftchallenger.com · Sports

Work out an NBA team from one era as its players appear with stat lines, least famous first and one more per miss, giving its city within six guesses.

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I Called Game

icalledgame.hoopgrids.com · Sports

From a single still of a historic NBA game, pick the home and visiting teams, then the coaches, players and big moments, scoring points for each correct call.

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Chrono NBA

chrono.quest · Sports

Put five moments from basketball history in chronological order, from record nights to championship runs, with three attempts to get the sequence right.

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Starting 5 Trivia

starting5trivia.com · Sports

Twelve NBA questions in four quarters, each answered by picking one of five players on the floor before the 10-second clock expires.

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NBA Ball Knowledge Dive

draftchallenger.com · Sports

Answer seven NBA record-book questions where every valid reply is accepted but rarer ones sink your ball deeper, with 60 seconds each and three seconds lost per miss.

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Build a Hooper

buildahooper.net · Sports

Assemble a custom basketball star by drafting 13 skills like shooting, playmaking and defense from different greats, then run an 82-game season to test the build.

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