A grid game deals a board of three rows and three columns, each labeled with a category, and every square wants one answer that satisfies both of its labels: a player who wore two teams' colors, a comedy with a named star, a Fire-type Pokémon from one region. Most allow nine guesses to fill the nine squares, an answer can be used once, and many score how few other players chose the same answer, so a forgotten name beats the obvious one.
Sports come first. Sports Reference runs the Immaculate Grid boards for baseball, pro football, men's and women's basketball, hockey and soccer, and other sites cover the same leagues with rules of their own: unlimited tries, an overtime round, three lives, or a single hidden player who suits all six categories. Films, anime and video games follow, from Pokémon to League of Legends and FromSoftware bosses, then countries, flags, US states and cities.
The last group takes the format beyond trivia about people and places: cars, animals, languages, numbers, words that follow spelling rules, or answers from any field at all. Sudoku, letter grids and logic grids sit on other shelves, since their squares are not filled by matching a row category with a column category.
Sports Reference's baseball edition: teams, season stats and awards label the rows and columns, any regular or postseason appearance for a club counts, and you have nine tries for the nine squares. A rarity score favors the names few others chose.
The same board for the NFL, where a column can name a college as well as a franchise or an honor. Pair a school with a team and the player needs to have attended one and suited up for the other, with AFL games counted too.
Sports Reference's NBA board, crossing franchises with categories such as birthplace or stat marks, and listing each franchise's former names beside it. Nine guesses, no repeats, and a rarity score for the less obvious names.
The WNBA version, where a square can join a team to a college, a season stat or an honor such as the All-Rookie Team, which has to have come while she played for that club.
The NHL board from Sports Reference, with categories like a career points milestone; a single game for a franchise is enough to count for it, and less common picks bring the rarity score down.
Soccer from the Immaculate Grid family, on a World Football board or an English Football board, where clubs cross nationalities, confederations and honors. Its men's data starts in 1992-93 and its women's in 2016-17.
An NBA grid with no cap on tries per square, rarity that updates as you play, a Hint mode, a Reverse mode and a speedrun. A live challenge against a friend has you pick squares in turn, and the rarer correct name takes it.
Draft Challenger's NBA board, crossing teams with draft decades, playing eras and honors such as All-Defensive selections. When the nine guesses run out, the game moves into overtime so you can keep trying the empty squares.
Draft Challenger's football board, where teams, colleges, positions and career length cross. A team paired with an award must line up in one season, and overtime follows the ninth guess with your score frozen.
Draft Challenger's baseball board mixes teams, birth decades, awards and the Hall of Fame. Career totals count across every club a player suited up for, while a team and an award must share a season.
An NHL grid with just nine shots to cover nine cells, a uniqueness score and player data from Elite Prospects, plus extra modes called Puck Buddies, Pyramid and Jersey Jackpot.
The hockey board from Draft Challenger, pairing clubs with birth decades, trophies and career goal totals, with an overtime round once the regular guesses are gone.
Draft Challenger's soccer board names countries, positions, trophies and decades, so one square can pair a nation with a scoring award and another a cup with an era.
From the site behind Flagdoku, a football grid of clubs, leagues, tournament squads and spelling rules such as a name's last letter, worth a point per square, with one hidden player who fits all six categories.
Premier League players only, matched to a stat along each row and another down each column. A separate rarity mode scores every answer by how obscure the player is.
Pantheon Football's grid sets three clubs across the top and three clubs or nationalities down the side. Each player goes in once, a third wrong answer ends the game, and rare names score more. It plays in English, French or Spanish.
Futbolle's crossover grid asks you to pick Easy, Normal or Hard for the day, and the level decides the board itself, from big clubs and nations up to every trophy, award and player trait. Its puzzle changes at your local midnight.
Films in place of players: rows and columns name actors, directors, genres or rules about a title's words, and nine guesses must fill the board. Afterward you see which films most players chose for each square and which right answers were the rarest. It has an archive and a TV edition.
Vulture's movie grid, new each morning, with clues you can tap for a headshot or details. Earlier editions stay playable in its archive, and a TV grid called Telematrix runs on the side.
Six cells on a two-by-three board, each pairing film people, genres or decades from its row and column, scored on the stars you keep out of five. Leaderboards and a stats passport come with it.
An anime grid whose categories range over genre, setting, demographic, voice actor and theme. No title can be used twice, the board turns over at midnight UTC, and the site comes in ten languages.
Anime clues built on MyAnimeList data, such as a decade, a genre or being adapted from a manga. Rarity is the share of players who put the same show in that square, so a lower figure is better.
Doku Games' Pokémon grid: types, regions and labels such as Legendary on the axes, nine tries to fill the nine boxes and no Pokémon twice. Each pick adds how common it was to your score, so a low total wins.
Its categories go past type and region to learnable moves and a Pokémon's place in its evolution line, with nine guesses, rarity points and a leaderboard. It plays in English, French, German or Spanish.
A tougher Pokémon grid from the maker of Weakdoku. Its labels can name a generation, a fossil or a stage of evolution, or a weakness, such as Grass attacks hitting for four times the usual damage. Older puzzles stay in an archive.
Every square is about damage taken: rows and columns name a multiplier against an attack type, and no type may appear twice across the board. Hard mode hides each Pokémon's types while you search.
A grid made only of types, three along the top and three down the side, so each cell wants a Pokémon that has both. A pick stays where you put it even when wrong, three hints are on hand, and an unlimited mode runs beside the daily.
League of Legends champions on nine squares of crossing traits, like the year a champion came out, played with three lives in place of a guess count. Rarer champions earn more, and the site runs Classic, Silhouette, Abilities and other guessers too.
Brawl Stars brawlers matched to crossing traits such as class, reload speed, range or carrying a shield, with nine guesses and an obscurity score set by the community to beat.
Bosses from FromSoftware's games, Elden Ring included, sorted by traits such as the damage they deal, whether they are an NPC or whether they fight in a single phase. Each pick gets a rarity score, and a Classic mode hides a single boss to guess.
A grid for The Bazaar, filled with its items and skills from clues about tooltips, tiers and cooldowns. Each box has two or more valid answers, ten guesses cover the board, and random boards are there after the daily.
Countries fill nine cells, with conditions on flags, coastlines, farmland or Olympic medals. Ten guesses, rarity tiers running from Common to Mythical, a USA edition and live one-on-one challenges.
Flags in nine squares, each row and column setting a color, a continent, a symbol or a name's first letter. Each correct square scores a point, one flag of the day matches all six, and past boards are archived.
A flag grid from Geoworldle with rules about colors, symbols such as birds and the color in a flag's corners, 15 guesses, and leaderboards for the day, the week and the month.
US states only, with clues such as a population band, a letter in the name, an Ivy League school or the Appalachian Trail. Each state goes in once, five mistakes are allowed, and it plays in English, French or Spanish.
Cities rather than countries, with clues such as sitting on a river, lying in a given country or having a long name. There is no clock, nine guesses are allowed, and the lowest rarity total wins. It belongs to a set of flight and map games.
Countries again, with traits like being a monarchy, a flag with red but no blue or a name of a set length. Twelve guesses, more points for smaller and less obvious nations, and a practice mode that deals random boards.
The open version: a category can be almost anything, so an answer for Historical crossed with Change might be a revolution, an old coin or somewhere people once changed clothes. Niche answers score lower, which is better.
Real cars named by make, model or generation, matched to rows and columns such as horsepower, engine size, supercharging or a name taken from a place. No car goes in twice, and the board closes after a third mistake.
Animals in place of flags, from the Flagdoku site: traits like habitat, speed, size next to a human or ear shape on each line, and one animal of the day that fits all six.
Languages on the grid, with clues about where they are spoken, their scripts and grammar, or the countries that speak them. Three hints, rarity scoring, levels from Easy up, past puzzles and an unlimited mode.
Each day picks a topic, such as countries, and its clues cross within it, like the Southern Hemisphere against French as a language. You play with a set number of lives, and practice boards are there any time.
Words instead of trivia: every row and column sets a spelling rule, like opening with a given letter or containing a pair, and rare words keep the rarity score low. Past grids are archived, and you can build your own.
Numbers in place of names: rows and columns name classes of numbers, and each cell takes one that belongs to both. Practice grids deal random boards after the daily.
