Football Wordle

How this football wordle plays

This football wordle is a daily letter puzzle on Footbillion. You have six tries to find one footballer's surname. It is not a five-letter English word pulled from a dictionary. The row is five, six, seven, or eight letters, matching that day's name.

A green tile is the right letter in the right place. A yellow tile is in the surname and in the wrong place. A grey tile is not in the name. Type with the on-screen keyboard or your own keys, then press Enter. The football wordle does not accept a guess of the wrong length.

The daily football wordle follows UTC. At midnight UTC the surname changes for everyone at once. Leave the page and come back the same day and the guesses you already made stay in this browser. They are not sent to a scoreboard.

Practice and the daily row

Practice deals a different surname each time you ask for one. It does not replace the daily football wordle, and it does not use up the six daily tries. Use it when you want another grid without waiting for midnight.

A search for a soccer wordle is the same idea under the other name for the sport. This page stays a football wordle: one surname, six tries, one UTC day. A second soccer wordle habit can live here too, because the tiles work the same way.

Where the surname comes from

Every answer is a surname from Footbillion's own player list, the names our clues already accept. Accents are folded, so Mbappe matches Mbappé. Particles such as van or de are not the whole puzzle unless the remaining name is still five to eight letters.

If two different players share a spelling, that spelling is left out, so the row points at one person. We do not invent a surname for the football wordle. The letters stay on the server until you solve the row or use all six tries. The page you first load does not include them.

After the last guess, the screen shows the player that surname belongs to. Until then the share grid is only coloured squares. A friend can open the football wordle and play the same day without reading the name in your message.

Tips

Start with a surname you actually remember. A random English word burns a guess. When a tile is yellow, move that letter. When it is grey, stop spending guesses on it. Double letters are marked one tile at a time.

If the daily football wordle has you stuck, open practice, learn the colour pattern, and return. The daily guesses are still there. The link you copy uses a share tag so we can see that the grid was shared, and it does not add the answer.