In its Big 4 edition, Who Are Ya gives you eight chances to name a mystery footballer from LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1 or the Premier League. You can start by revealing a blurred photo of him, or hide it and open with a random guess. Each attempt is graded on team, nationality, position, age and shirt number: green is a match, an amber club box signals the right league but a different club, and arrows say whether he is older or younger and wears a higher or lower number. Narrowing whole leagues down to one name is the fun.
Other football player guessers lead, ordered by how closely their clue columns match Who Are Ya's team, nation, position, age and shirt number. Then come games that identify a player from his name or club history instead, and the list ends with the same comparison format applied to the NBA and Australian rules football.
Very close in design: the target is a footballer playing now, in a top league or abroad, and each guess reports on club, league, position, country, age and shirt number, with twelve guesses rather than Who Are Ya's eight.
Adds height and preferred foot to the columns Who Are Ya uses, alongside club, league, role, nation, age and shirt number, and allows six guesses to find the player, so each miss tells you a little more.
Swaps the shirt number for money: ten tries, each checked against the mystery player for position, league, club, country and age, plus how much he is worth on the transfer market.
Offers a choice of pace, with Classic allowing fifteen tries and the Wordle mode eight, and each player you pick is checked on age, height, position, nationality, league and club, close to Who Are Ya's categories.
Keeps the up-and-down arrows that Who Are Ya puts on age, and every guess is held up against the player's club and league, country, position and age, plus a count of his World Cups.
Narrows the pool to the Premier League: every guess is lined up against the answer's club, nation, position and year of birth, and also the date he signed for his current club, a fresh column for transfer watchers.
Turns the clues around: you get five clues about a single footballer, such as a record he holds, his shirt number or a famous moment, and three guesses, with wrong answers checked for country, era and position.
Spells out the answer rather than comparing stats: six guesses at a mystery footballer's name, drawn from the five biggest European leagues, with a length that changes by day and colored tiles marking correct letters.
Uses a player's club history in place of a stat table: his former teams appear from earliest on, and a miss highlights any clubs your guess also played for while revealing the next one, with faster solves scoring higher.
Another club-history game: each step of a player's career shows how many seasons, matches and goals he had there, you get a single attempt per club, and the first misses reveal his nationality and then his position.
The same comparison idea for basketball: eight guesses at an NBA player, each graded on jersey number, age, height, position, team, conference and division, the first of those a near relative of Who Are Ya's shirt cell; it comes from the players' union.
Brings the format to Australian rules football: eight guesses at the day's AFL player, with colors marking matches on guernsey number, height, age, position, state and team, and a silhouette you can choose to show, much like Who Are Ya's photo.
Eight in the Big 4 edition, which covers players from LaLiga, Serie A, Ligue 1 and the Premier League. Before your first guess you can show a blurred photo of the player as a starting clue, or hide it and open with any name you like. Editions for other leagues are linked from the same page.
Green means a category matches the mystery player exactly, such as his nationality or position. An amber club cell means his league matches your guess but his club does not. Arrows on age and shirt number point up or down, telling you whether he is older or younger and whether his number sits above or below yours.
The site behind it, PlayFootball.Games, lists many more, including Missing XI, Football Connections, Career Path Challenge and Tiki-Taka-Toe. Elsewhere, Mystery Player and Wordlecup use the same column-by-column comparison, while Journeyman and Career Path identify a player from the clubs he has played for.
