Guide
How to Play
The rules take ten seconds to learn. Getting good at it takes rather longer.
The basic rules
You are shown a player from your club and one of their career statistics — appearances, goals, assists or another stat depending on the sport. Then a second player appears with their number hidden.
Your job is to decide whether that second player's number is higher or lower than the first.
Call it right and the game continues, with the second player becoming your new reference point. Call it wrong and you lose a life. You have three.
That's it. Everything else is a variation on this.
Lives and streaks
Three lives per game. Every correct call extends your streak; every wrong one costs a life. Lose all three and the run ends, and you're offered the chance to save your score to the leaderboard.
Streaks are where the game gets interesting. Early calls tend to be easy — a club legend with 400 appearances against a player who managed six. As the streak grows the numbers cluster, and before long you're choosing between two players who both made somewhere around 80 appearances, one of whom you half remember from a wet Tuesday in 2011.
The game modes
Streak
Endless higher-or-lower on a single club. One long run, three lives, no finish line.
Levels
Structured rounds that ramp from gentle to brutal. Clear each level to unlock the next.
Face Off
Two players, one stat, head to head. Just call the bigger number, round after round.
Rank
Put a set of players in order on a single stat. No guessing your way through this one.
Daily
One shared puzzle a day, the same for everyone. Football, plus separate dailies for the US sports.
The era slider
Most clubs have a century of players in the database, and knowing your club's 1970s side doesn't help much if the game keeps serving you signings from last August.
The era slider narrows the pool to a date range you choose. Set it to the years you actually watched and the game becomes a memory test rather than a research exercise. Set it wide and you're up against the entire history of the club.
Leaderboards
Save a score and it appears on that club's leaderboard under whatever nickname you type. Leaderboards are kept per club and per mode, so a good score on a club with a small player pool isn't competing against one with hundreds.
You don't need an account. Nothing is stored except the nickname you choose, your score, and which club and mode you played. You can ask for an entry to be removed at any time.
Tips
Watch the statistic, not the name. A famous player isn't necessarily a high number — plenty of well-known names had short spells.
Long-serving beats famous. The players at the top of most appearance charts are one-club servants rather than marquee signings.
Use the era slider. Playing all-time on a club with 130 years of history is genuinely hard. Narrow the range and your hit rate climbs immediately.
Goals and appearances behave very differently. A striker with 200 appearances might have 90 goals; a full-back with 400 might have three.
Learn the shape, not the numbers. You'll never memorise every figure, but you'll quickly develop a feel for roughly where a given kind of player sits.
Can't find your club?
Hundreds of clubs and national teams are already in the game, and more get added regularly. If yours isn't here, request it — requests genuinely drive what gets built next.