Every morning, five brand-new football puzzles go live on Football IQ. No accounts, no downloads, no paywalls on the daily games — just open your browser and play.
Whether you're killing time before kickoff, settling a debate with mates, or genuinely trying to prove you know more about football than anyone in your group chat, there's a puzzle here for you. Each one tests a different corner of football knowledge, from transfer fees to tactical timelines.
Here's what's live today.
Career Path — Guess the Footballer from Their Career History
A mystery player's career is laid out in front of you: clubs, years, appearances. The catch? Their name is hidden. Your job is to work out who it is before all the clues are revealed.
The fewer hints you need, the higher your score. Some days it's a household name whose career you can rattle off from memory. Other days it's a journeyman who bounced between six clubs in four countries — and those are the ones that separate the casuals from the obsessives.
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Transfer Guess — Name the Player from a Single Transfer
You're shown one transfer: the selling club, the buying club, and the fee. Three additional hints — year, position, and nationality — are available if you need them.
It sounds simple until you're staring at a £35m move from Ligue 1 to the Premier League in 2019 and realising just how many players that describes. The best scores come from identifying the deal before you tap a single hint.
Connections — Group 16 Players into 4 Categories
Sixteen footballer names. Four hidden categories. Your job is to sort them into the correct groups.
The categories might be straightforward (players who've won the Ballon d'Or) or deviously lateral (players whose surnames are also English towns). You get four lives — one wrong grouping costs you one. The purple category is always the hardest, and getting it right without a single mistake is the mark of a true football brain.
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Timeline — Sort 6 Events into Chronological Order
Six football events. Put them in the right order, from earliest to most recent.
This one rewards the fans who don't just know what happened, but when. Did Zidane's headbutt come before or after Arsenal's Invincibles season? Was Ronaldo's first Ballon d'Or before or after Messi's first? The margins are often tighter than you'd expect.
Topical Quiz — 5 Questions on This Week's Football Headlines
Five multiple-choice questions based on the week's biggest stories. Results, transfers, milestones, records — if it happened this week, it's fair game.
This is the one to play if you've been following the football news closely. It rewards paying attention to the details that most people skim past: exact scorelines, assist providers, minute of the winning goal.
How Scoring Works
Each puzzle has its own scoring system, but the principle is the same: the fewer hints you use and the faster you solve it, the better your score. Your results are shareable with a single tap — a spoiler-free grid that shows how you did without giving away the answers.
Play More on the App
The five web puzzles above are just the start. The Football IQ app has 11 game modes in total, including The Grid, Starting XI, Who Am I?, Goalscorer Recall, and Higher or Lower. You also get a full puzzle archive, streak tracking, achievements, and the ability to compete with friends.
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