THE TEAM TALK
How to play Kick-off
Free football trivia for fans who know the less obvious answer. Guest games are free; sign in for ranked play and the Hall of Fame.
Choose Easy or Hard
Kick-off, Daily Question and 5-a-side offer two levels. Easy uses familiar football names, managers and major awards. Hard keeps the original difficulty. Each quiz level has its own fresh daily set, saved daily result and personal best. Tiki Taka Toe’s original grid is Easy; Hard uses tougher intersections. 32–0 and Guess Who? keep their existing rules.
Daily Question
One separate question each day, changing at midnight in Europe/Dublin. You have 20 seconds to submit one answer. Your first attempt is saved in this browser. New sourced questions and fun facts are prepared for each day. Past content is recorded to prevent repeats.
Kick-off: seven rounds
Answer seven football questions with 20 seconds per round. Every round has at least five accepted answers. Keep guessing until an answer is accepted or time runs out. A timeout scores zero. Each valid answer earns 10–100 editor-assigned difficulty points. Scores are fixed difficulty ratings, not measured player rarity. Everyone receives the same seven-round fixture for their difficulty each day. At full time, see the answers and how your score compares with other players who finished the same set. A fresh set appears at midnight Europe/Dublin; an in-progress game keeps its original questions.
5-a-side multiplayer
Choose Easy or Hard when creating a room, then share its six-character code. Everyone joins the host’s difficulty and rematches keep it. Two to five players can play, or you can practise against four clearly labelled bots. Everyone starts with two lives. On your turn, give a valid unused answer within 12 seconds to pass the ball. Wrong or repeated answers can be retried before the clock expires. A timeout costs a life. The category changes after a lost life or when its answers run out. The last player standing wins. Rooms expire after two hours.
Six answer rarities
Kick-off and the Daily Question reveal a rarity for each valid answer: Grassroots (10–19 points), Academy (20–39), Premier League (40–59), Champions League (60–79), Ballon d’Or (80–99) and Generational (100). Each tier has its own colour and reveal; 100-point answers receive a special finish. A timeout earns zero and no rarity. The Daily Question also scores a wrong answer as zero. The tiers reflect editor-assigned difficulty, not measured answer frequency. Existing exact scores and the perfect-score targets stay the same.
Answers, scoring and facts
Read each question’s historical cutoff and scope. Common aliases, accents and clear spelling mistakes are accepted when they identify one answer. Longer names can allow up to three edits; ambiguous matches are not guessed. At the end of Kick-off, or after the Daily Question, see the accepted answers and historical sources, plus facts about selected top-scoring answers.
Tiki Taka Toe
Choose Easy for the original grid or Hard for tougher intersections. Name a player matching both criteria in a square. Solo: complete nine squares in five minutes with three lives. A perfect grid has no mistakes. Same-screen: X and O alternate; the first three in a row wins, and a wrong answer passes the turn. Use each player once per grid. Read the verified answer-pool scope.
32–0
Draft an XI in a 4–3–3 from random league and era draws. Choose one of three eligible players per position, with two rerolls. Shared club history and nationalities build chemistry. Then simulate 32 matches and chase 32 wins. Ratings and results are a game model with chance, not real statistics or predictions.
Guess Who?: world leaderboard
Each clue shows selected clubs from one footballer’s senior career, in chronological order. Type the player’s name, or pass if you’re stuck. Some clubs and repeated spells may be left out. Identify up to 11 players before the clock runs out. One submission per clue and 90 seconds total. Enter a public nickname to play as a guest, or sign in to use your account. One attempt per day per guest browser or account. Leaving or refreshing does not reset the clock. Correct answers rank first, then server-measured time, including connection delay. Fresh clues and the solo grid release at midnight Europe/Dublin.
Hall of Fame
Sign in before playing. The Hall of Fame’s first-five section has five places, awarded to the first five different accounts to earn a verified perfect achievement in any mode: Kick-off 700 points, Daily 100/100, solo grid 9/9 without mistakes, 32 wins in 32–0, Guess Who? 11/11, or a 5-a-side win with both lives and at least one valid pass. Either difficulty qualifies, with the level recorded beside the achievement. Each account can hold only one place across all modes, even after changing nickname or perfecting another game. Entries show public nicknames and are ordered by their first achievement time. Older local results cannot be claimed retrospectively. A separate Perfect Sweep honour goes to the first account to achieve all six perfect results, measured by when their final required result is completed. The results can span different days. This additional honour does not use a first-five place, and its winner may already hold one.
Ranked results, Hall of Fame achievements and multiplayer games are validated on the server. Guest practice results can remain local. You can choose a public nickname instead of using your real name.
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