Puckdoku is a daily NHL grid: nine cells, each sitting where a row clue meets a column clue, such as Born in Canada or 750+ career games. You have nine shots, every pick uses one whether right or wrong, a player can appear only once and a choice cannot be changed. A uniqueness score adds up how often your players were picked by others, so lower means rarer. Pyramid, Buddies and Jackpot modes sit beside Classic. Finding the deep cut nobody else thought of is the fun.
Hockey comes first: two more NHL grids, then an NHL Connections board and a hockey player guesser. After that the list follows the same row-and-column format into baseball, basketball, the NFL and soccer, with a few twists on scoring and lives, and ends with a pro wrestling night that includes its own grid.
The nearest relative: another nine-square NHL board where team clues meet achievement clues, like a milestone reached in one season, nine guesses in total, and a rarity score you want to keep low, Puckdoku's uniqueness idea under another name.
Also a hockey grid of crossing clues, from clubs to trophies and career goals, but once your nine guesses are used up an overtime round lets you keep filling the board.
Keeps the hockey knowledge and drops the grid: sort sixteen NHL players into four sets that share something like a first club, an award or a decade of birth, and you can make six errors before it ends.
A guesser instead of a grid: one hidden hockey player a day, and each name you try is rated as a match, close or a miss on height, age, team and position. You get eight attempts, or fifteen in Classic.
Takes the same board to MLB: each cell wants a baseball player who fits a team or stat clue on two sides, nine guesses cover nine cells, and lesser-known names improve your rarity score.
Basketball's version: each square pairs two clues, for example a franchise with the decade a player was drafted, and after nine guesses an overtime phase begins, close to how NHL Grid handles hockey.
A looser NBA grid: you can guess as often as you like in each square, rarity updates as you go, and hint, reverse and friend-duel modes are on offer, a contrast to Puckdoku's strict nine shots.
Sports Reference's football edition: every square crosses two categories, one combination being a franchise with All-Pro first-team honors, and nine guesses have to cover the board, the same discipline Puckdoku asks for.
Carries the grid into soccer, with one version for world football and one for the English game. Clubs meet achievements across nine squares, and nine guesses are all you get.
A soccer grid with an extra layer: nine players go into squares defined by clubs, leagues or even names, and a bonus challenge asks you to name one player able to fill every square.
Its nine soccer boxes pair a club with another club or with a nationality, every answer must be a different player, three wrong picks are allowed, and uncommon names score higher, much like Puckdoku's uniqueness.
Swaps hockey for pro wrestling across three nightly games: a quick timed quiz, a mystery wrestler found in eight guesses, and a nine-square grid where every wrestler must match the clues on both sides.
Puckdoku adds up the percentage of players who picked each of your answers, then adds 100 for every cell left empty. A lower total means your players were rarer choices, so obscure correct answers help you most. Immaculate Grid: Hockey and The Grid reward uncommon answers in a similar way.
Yes, as a single franchise. Players and stats from the Hartford Whalers, for example, count toward the Carolina Hurricanes. Special retro team categories are the exception: they ignore relocation, so in those cells a player who suited up for the Nordiques does not count for the Avalanche.
Every selection, right or wrong, uses one of your nine shots, a player can only be chosen once, and a pick cannot be changed after it is made. To keep a streak you need all nine cells correct on the day the puzzle comes out. The game's player data comes from Elite Prospects.
