HoopGrids is a daily NBA grid where every square sits at the crossing of two categories, such as Played in the 2010s, and wants one player who satisfies the pair. Tries on any one square are unlimited, which lets you stay with it until something sticks, and a rarity score updates as you play, favoring names few others chose. Normal, Hint and Reverse modes sit beside an archive, a speedrun, custom boards and a leaderboard. A board feels memorable when you land a name no one else considered.
The list opens with other basketball grids, then rarity and stat challenges and NBA rosters used in other formats. After those come grids for football, hockey, baseball, soccer and even pro wrestling, each of which borrows the crossing-categories board.
One more NBA board of nine squares, with each box pairing two conditions, a franchise with an award or a draft decade for example, but you get nine guesses before an overtime round, where HoopGrids never cuts you off.
Crosses NBA franchises with stat categories across nine squares and gives you nine guesses in total, with rarity scoring that favors obscure picks, a stricter test than HoopGrids' open retries.
Turns to the WNBA: rows and columns mix teams, colleges and single-season stats, and nine guesses must cover all nine boxes, a good fit for HoopGrids players who follow women's basketball.
Bundles a player grid with five other NBA games, from bingo and a ranked top ten to a Wordle-style puzzle and a lineup builder, so a finished grid can lead into a different kind of basketball quiz.
Shares HoopGrids' taste for the less obvious answer: seven questions from the NBA record book take any correct name, but uncommon ones send your ball further down, on a one-minute clock that loses three seconds for each wrong reply.
Asks for qualifying players row by row, like a grid, but scores them by the total of one daily stat, WAR for example, so the right star beats the rare one; it has NBA, MLB and NFL boards.
Turns that roster knowledge into a sorting job: sixteen NBA names form four groups tied by things like colleges, jersey numbers, draft years, honors or teams, and six mistakes are allowed.
Connects two NBA stars through a path of teammates, where every link needs a real game the pair played together, with hints available and a practice mode, the same who-played-with-whom recall the team squares lean on.
The football version: a 3x3 NFL board whose rows and columns mix positions, honors, teams and colleges, where nine guesses are followed by an overtime that freezes your score.
Hockey's take: an NHL board where squares mix career stats, positions and teams, one shot each for nine in all, scored for uniqueness much as HoopGrids scores rarity, with side modes called Pyramid and Puck Buddies.
The baseball board: each of nine boxes wants an MLB player who meets a team or stat condition from both directions, nine guesses in all, and rarity scoring that favors forgotten names, a firmer limit than HoopGrids sets.
Brings the board to the Premier League, where each of nine squares needs a player matching both its row stat and its column stat, plus a rarity mode that pays off unusual answers the way HoopGrids does.
Applies the grid to pro wrestling, one of three games it posts each night: nine squares that each need a wrestler matching two clues, next to a short timed quiz and an eight-guess hunt for one mystery wrestler.
It is a live one-on-one game against a friend on a single board. You take turns choosing a square, each of you picks a player for it without seeing the other's choice, and whichever valid pick is less common takes the square. It sits beside the normal daily grid, where retries on each square are unlimited and rarity is scored as you go.
Besides Normal, there are Hint and Reverse modes, a back catalog of older puzzles, a speedrun option, stats, a leaderboard and a friends list, and a tool for creating your own board. For a grid with a hard limit instead, NBA Grid and Immaculate Grid: Men's Basketball each allow nine guesses for the nine squares.
NFL Grid covers football with an overtime stage, Puckdoku does hockey with a uniqueness score, Immaculate Grid: Baseball handles MLB, and The Ball Grid uses Premier League players. Immaculate Grid: Women's Basketball stays with basketball but switches to the WNBA, and The Push runs a nightly grid of pro wrestlers.
