Wordlecup

Wordlecup is a portal of daily sports puzzles, and this entry covers its Soccer Wordle: a mystery footballer to identify in six guesses. The grid is not a checkerboard of letters but a player-profile table with eight columns (LEAGUE, CLUB, NATION, POSITION, AGE, HEIGHT, SHIRT # and FOOT), topped by a MATCH CONTROL banner that shows your current streak and best score. Under the grid, an A-Z row serves as a quick filter to narrow the list of suggested names. Note on arrival: the same site also serves basketball and American football grids, reachable via the ⚽ 🏀 🏈 tabs placed just above the table and via the top menu. A banner reminds you that progress stays local unless you sign in.

1. Make sure the Soccer tab is the active one: the MATCH CONTROL card also carries the 🏀 Basketball and 🏈 NFL tabs.
2. Type the name of a footballer in the guess field, using the alphabetical filter under the grid if necessary.
3. Read the returned row column by column: each of the eight columns has its own proximity rule.
4. Treat the ↑↓ arrows in the numeric columns as a direction: they indicate the target value is higher or lower.
5. Lock in exact matches you obtain and eliminate any players that contradict them.
6. Repeat, tightening one constraint at a time. Six guesses, no more, for the player of the day.
7. Return tomorrow for the next grid; the streak shown in MATCH CONTROL only survives switching devices if you sign in.

Because the grid reads like a scouting sheet rather than a riddle. The eight columns tell a player’s story in the order a fan would describe them (where they play, for whom, for which country, at what position, with what build, what number and which foot), and each guess fills that sheet a little more. The finesse comes from the intermediate tiers calibrated per column: the same tier doesn't tell the same story for nation, where it opens an entire continent, and for age, where it locks the answer into a two-year range. The result: six guesses are easily enough when you know which clue to query first, and not at all when you just line up stars.

Each guess returns a full row of eight verdicts, and the real subtlety is that the intermediate tier does not mean the same thing from one column to another. The How to Play panel details them one by one: for LEAGUE, the intermediate tier means the same country of championship; for CLUB, the same championship; for NATION, the same continent; for POSITION, the same group of positions (ATK, MID, DEF or GK). On the numeric columns, this tier is a numeric tolerance that varies by field: ±2 on age, ±3 cm on height, ±5 on shirt number, with an up or down arrow as soon as the value falls outside the range. The FOOT column adds a special case: a two-footed player will partially tick a right-foot answer as well as a left-foot one.

Daily Soccer Wordle

The daily solo challenge, presented by the badges 6 TRIES, 8 CLUES and SOLO CHALLENGE: a hidden footballer, six guesses, eight columns of clues, a new grid every day.

• The numeric tolerances are not equal. An intermediate tier on shirt number covers five units either side, versus two years for age and three centimetres for height: it's the loosest clue on the board, so don't base your deduction on it alone.
• The POSITION column is the most valuable early on because its intermediate tier is an entire group: attack, midfield, defence or goalkeeper. One guess tells you which quarter of the pitch to search.
• CLUB and LEAGUE answer one another, and you should read them together: a club marked intermediate signals the same championship, while the LEAGUE column can be satisfied by the same country. A well-chosen guess therefore tests two scales of proximity at once.
• The alphabetical filter under the grid is not decorative: once the clues have put a name in your head, it prevents you from struggling with the exact spelling of a foreign surname.
• The FOOT column is worth checking late in the game. Because a two-footed player marks an intermediate tier, guessing one lets you break a tie between two profiles that the rest of the board makes look equivalent.