WC Time Machine

World Cup Time Machine is not a guessing game but a World Cup draft: the subtitle reads « Draft every legend · 1970-2026 », and the promise is to gather legends from all editions into the same starting eleven. You begin by giving yourself a team name and choosing a pennant from sixteen emblems, then you open a game in Classic or in World Cup 2026. The site then describes a loop that feels more like a board game than a daily puzzle: a wheel pulls a real World Cup squad, everyone drafts from that same squad, then a draw places your eleven into a group of historical national teams before knockout rounds played turn by turn. The page keeps a Hall of Fame of the best finished games, ranked by points, and a board of ongoing games to join.

1. Choose a team name and a pennant from the emblem grid, then create your game in Classic or World Cup 2026.
2. Invite your players: the game is shared via a link or a code, and the site specifies that lobbies synchronize in real time.
3. Each round, one of you spins the wheel, which brings up an actual World Cup squad. The site gives as examples Pelé's Brazil, Maguire's England, or Qatar 2022.
4. Draft from this shared squad, with the spinner choosing first.
5. Watch the player types, symbolized by eight pictograms: three identical, four identical, or a complete rainbow trigger combination bonuses.
6. Pass THE DRAW, the draw that slots your eleven into a group of historical national teams; the top two come out of the group.
7. In the knockout stage, set your training then choose an attitude before kick-off, the match then unfolding minute by minute.
8. Remember that a second attitude decision awaits you at halftime, and that a match that remains tied goes to penalties.
9. Open the victory chest after each won round to collect random bonuses, and keep going: winning the seven rounds marks a perfect game, the famed 7-0.

Because it turns the bar-room argument about the best all-time eleven into an arbitrated competition, with a wheel that decides which historical squad you'll all fight over. The fact that everyone draws from the same pool, with the spinner served first, puts every round under tension: accepting a less prestigious player but of the right type to complete a combination is a decision you defend aloud. Then the game says it refuses to simulate in silence: you set a training, choose an attitude, the match plays out minute by minute and you correct at halftime, with a penalty shootout as the ultimate sanction. It's made to be played with multiple phones in hand, lobbies synchronized in real time, and the Hall of Fame gives a good reason to play again.

The game's "How it works" panel describes a return that is not a color but a match: the chosen training then the attitude, the encounter going live, minute by minute, with a second attitude call at halftime and penalties when nothing separates the teams; a won round opens a victory chest distributing random bonuses. The same panel states that type combinations (three or four identical pictograms, or a full rainbow), pay a bonus at the moment of selection. The screen also shows the Hall of Fame: the best games are ranked there by points, with the labels Champion and 7-0.

Daily Challenge

The solo fixture from the home screen, numbered and renewed each day, with the note « same draw for everyone today »: everyone faces the same draw on the same date.

Multiplayer

Two to six managers in the same lobby, created from the page and shared by link or code. The site promises real-time synchronization, and a panel lists ongoing games to join.

Classic

The default creation, the one that draws on the entire history announced by the subtitle, from 1970 to 2026. It is also the label that accompanies the best games in the Hall of Fame.

World Cup 2026

The variant aligned with the ongoing tournament, described by the site as the real groups and real squads: one entire team is replaced, you draft only from the 1,248 players present at the tournament, and the competition follows its 12 groups, its best third-placed teams and its « Round of 32 », a thirty-two-team knockout round.

The Lab

A third door on the home screen, shown in beta under the name Contracts and summarized by « gameplan first · pick your objectives ».

• Spinning the wheel is not a neutral gesture: the rule gives first pick to whoever spun it. When the wheel brings up a legendary squad, that round counts twice as much as the others.
• Draft by pictograms as much as by names. Three players of the same type, four of the same type or a complete rainbow pay a bonus, which can make a well-typed bench player more valuable than a star who breaks your combination.
• Keep a decision in reserve for halftime. The attitude chosen at kick-off is not final, and a match that goes wrong can be corrected at the break before ending in a penalty shootout.
• In World Cup 2026, your historical knowledge is useless: the draw is locked to the 1,248 players actually at the tournament. It's the mode to choose if you follow current squads rather than the archives.