Immaculate Grid: Pro Football
The same grid and the same nine guesses applied to the NFL, where squares can pair a franchise with an honor like first-team All-Pro, from the same publisher.
Immaculate Grid, from Sports Reference, is a nine-square board of baseball trivia. Each row and column carries a team or an achievement, and every square needs a player who fits both, such as someone who played for two particular franchises. You get nine guesses for nine squares, and a rarity score rewards picks few other people made. The satisfaction is digging up a forgotten name that fits perfectly.
Every pick uses crossing categories or rewards deep knowledge of players. The other Sports Reference grids come first, then independent grids for other sports, then grids about Pokémon, countries and movies for anyone who wants the format without the box scores.
The same grid and the same nine guesses applied to the NFL, where squares can pair a franchise with an honor like first-team All-Pro, from the same publisher.
Sports Reference's basketball version, asking you to name NBA players for each franchise and stat pairing, with the same rarity score rewarding less obvious names.
The NHL edition, crossing franchises with milestones like a big scoring season, for hockey fans who want the exact Immaculate Grid rules on the ice.
Soccer's version from the same publisher, with clubs crossed against achievements and separate world and English football boards to choose from.
Brings the grid to the WNBA, where a square might cross a team with a college or a season stat, a good test for fans of the women's game.
An independent NBA grid that drops the nine-guess limit, with as many tries per square as you need, rarity tracked live and a head-to-head mode against a friend.
One shot per square, nine in all, on a grid of NHL teams, positions and career numbers, with its own uniqueness score and a couple of side modes.
A soccer grid with a twist on the format: alongside the nine crossing squares, you look for the one player who fits every category at once.
Thirty baseball puzzles a day, one for each MLB club, where you sort that franchise's players into categories they satisfy, a deep dive for fans of a single team.
Rewards recall plus strategy: you fill each row with a qualifying player while trying to pile up the largest sum of the day's stat, with baseball, basketball and football boards.
Swaps athletes for Pokémon, crossing categories such as typing and home region, and scores rarity the same way, so a lower number means you found the less common picks.
The Immaculate Grid format with countries: each square crosses two conditions, such as alliances or what appears on a flag, and rarer valid answers reach higher tiers.
Vulture's movie version of the grid, where each answer must meet two clues at once, with hints that show photos of the people involved when you are stuck.
A film grid with nine guesses where a row might name an actor and a column a title rule, so the overlap is where the challenge lives.
Each correct answer gets a percentage showing how many other players picked the same person for that square. Your rarity score adds those percentages together, and any square left empty counts as 100, so a lower total is better. A full grid of obscure but correct names can finish in the single digits.
No to both. Each guess is final once submitted, whether right or wrong, and a player can only be used once per grid. That is why it pays to fill the squares you are surest of first and save the trickier intersections for the end, when you know which names are still free.
Sports Reference also runs editions for pro football, men's and women's basketball, hockey and soccer, all listed above. For a version with no guess limit, Hoopgrids lets you keep trying on each NBA square, and Pokedoku and GeoGrid apply the format to Pokémon and countries.