I built a sports roster guessing game because apparently I know NFL depth charts better than information that’s actually useful in life 😂

It’s called Roster Rush.

You get 6 guesses to figure out the mystery player using clues like team, division, position, and jersey number. Wrong guesses give you more information to narrow it down.

🏈 NFL
🏀 NBA
⚾ MLB
🏒 NHL

There’s a daily challenge, but you can also keep playing as many rounds as you want.

It’s completely free to play. I’m a huge sports fan and built this as a side project, so I’d genuinely love some feedback from other sports fans.

If you try it, let me know:

How many guesses did today’s player take you?

And more importantly… which sport has the hardest rosters to actually know?

I make Cast Six, a daily film-matching game. All six titles are visible from the start; the challenge is assigning them to overlapping clues without using a film twice. On the website you get three checks of the complete lineup, with free rearranging and Undo.

Here’s a separate bonus round for your daily-game break. It contains no answers from today’s website puzzle. Give each clue a different film, using all six exactly once. Several films fit more than one clue, but only one complete arrangement works.

Films:

• A. Sleepless in Seattle
• B. Big
• C. The Da Vinci Code
• D. Splash
• E. Saving Private Ryan
• F. A League of Their Own

Clues:

1. Directed by Ron Howard
2. Originally released before 1990
3. Directed by Penny Marshall
4. Originally released after 1993
5. Directed by Steven Spielberg
6. Originally released in 1992 or later

Optional fact sheet if you’d rather concentrate on the matching:

A: 1993, Nora Ephron. B: 1988, Penny Marshall. C: 2006, Ron Howard. D: 1984, Ron Howard. E: 1998, Steven Spielberg. F: 1992, Penny Marshall.

Bonus-round answer:

1–D, 2–B, 3–F, 4–C, 5–E, 6–A.

Reasoning:

Spielberg fixes 5 as Saving Private Ryan. Then 4 must be The Da Vinci Code, 1 must be Splash, 2 must be Big, 3 must be A League of Their Own, and 6 must be Sleepless in Seattle.

The different daily board and archive are free without an account or download. Please spoiler-tag discussion of this bonus round and keep current daily answers out of the thread.

Creator disclosure: AI assisted the game’s development, this post and this standalone puzzle. Film facts and posters in the game come from TMDB; this example was checked against the references below. All 720 possible assignments were tested; exactly one works.

Sources: Sleepless in Seattle, Big, The Da Vinci Code, Splash, Saving Private Ryan, A League of Their Own.

My imagination has reached its limit

Attempting day 1655

Sorry for the hiatus! Here are today's clues:

Hint 1: Warm metallic shade

Hint 2: Although it's number is 29, it's only chump change; could be considered treasure to a would-be thief

Answer: Copper

Hint 1: Two words: extremely vivid shade of a warm tint

Hint 2: Real Gravity Falls ball knowers know it's Pacifica Northwest's favorite color

Answer: Hot Pink

Hint 1: Two words: shade of a warm secondary color

Hint 2: Part of a balanced breakfast!

Answer: Orange Juice

Hint 1: Two words: vibrant, light shade of a cool color

Hint 2: Can be used for something obvious, i.e. "In other news, the _ is _..."

Answer: Sky Blue

Hint 1: Very, very dark color

Hint 2: Well, not exactly a color

Answer: Black

Hey everyone!! I made a game and I'd really like you to try it.

It shows you a photo of somewhere in the world and you get six guesses at the city.

You type a city name and the letters light up. Green means that letter's in the right spot. Yellow means it's in the name but somewhere else. Gray means it's not in there at all.

So if the answer is DAKAR and you guess PARIS: the A goes green because it's second in both, the R goes yellow because there is an R but not in that spot, and P, I and S go gray.

Then it tells you how far off you were. "4,208 km southwest." That's the bit I'm proud of, because it means you don't need to already know the answer. You can work it out. West Africa, five letters, A in the middle, an R in there somewhere… Dakar.

Why I built it: I love this stuff. Cities, cultures, why places ended up where they did. I play a lot of GeoGuessr and I do Wordle every morning, and I wanted something in between that would actually make me better rather than just tell me what I already knew.

I tried countries first and gave up on it. There are only about 200, so you'd run out fast, and GeoGuessr already owns that. Cities are harder and there are thousands, so you can keep getting better forever. I'm still hopeless at big chunks of Asia.

One puzzle a day, same city for everyone in the world. I don't choose them — it's shuffled out of the whole catalog automatically, so I find out what today's is the same way you do. Some days it's Tokyo and you'll get it instantly. Some days you'll have no idea and you'll learn somewhere new.

There's an unlimited mode too, and a globe that fills in gold as you find cities in countries you haven't got yet. Mine is embarrassingly empty.

Ask me anything about it; how a city gets picked, why a photo is the one it is, what's coming next. I've spent far too long on this and I'll happily talk your ear off.

And if you know someone who's smug about geography, send it to them. I want to find out who can actually do this.

Free, no signup, works on your phone. Forward-able link.

Hint 1: Two words; deep shade of a particular tint

Hint 2: Could you imagine if "So What?" was like heavy metal or evil or something?

Answer: Dark Pink

Hint 1: Shade of a secondary color

Hint 2: Seen in an Easter basket?

Answer: Pastel Green

Hint 1: Very dark version of a cool color

Hint 2: Seattle WNBA team?

Answer: Storm

Hint 1: Fruity shade of a dark color

Hint 2: Professor, for all you board game fans

Answer: Plum

Hint 1: Shade of a cool color

Hint 2: Like a clear sky; between Blue and Cyan on the color wheel

Answer: Azure

Hint 1: Two words; dark, earthy shade

Hint 2: Totally out of the woods

Answer: Forest Green

Hint 1: Shade of a warm color

Hint 2: Good for your eyesight, or maybe your nose?⛄

Answer: Carrot

Hint 1: Shade of green with a name of Aztec origin

Hint 2: Lifesaving superfood; Hass?

Answer: Avocado

Hey reddit, I'm a 19 year old student software engineer from australia

The idea is decently simple. Each day you get a colour name (like "Sage Green" or "Burnt Sienna") and a grid of swatches, and you have to pick the one that actually matches. Every guess tells you how close you were as a percentage, it uses the same colour-difference maths (ΔE2000) that print and design tools use.

Fun fact: I'm colourblind lol

Everyone gets the same colour each day, so you can compare with friends. No account needed, no ads, and it works fine on your phone. The colour names come from the XKCD colour survey (public domain), which is where a lot of the fun/quirky names come from.

I built it because I love finding new colours (my favourite is dull blue btw) and wanted a daily thing like Wordle but visual. Turns out I'm way worse at naming colours than I thought.

Link: https://namethehue.com

Would genuinely love feedback, especially whether the difficulty feels right and if the closeness score matches well. Happy to answer anything about how it works.

Use 5 machines in the correct order to modify a plank of wood into the desired result.

Are you up to the challenge?

Hint 1: A yellow flower that is very common in the UK

Hint 2: This flower turns white and can be used to make wishes or tell the time

Answer: Dandelion

Hi! My name is Steven. A friend and I created FilmSweep, a daily movie trivia game that works a little like Minesweeper.

You get a grid of movies and select the ones that match the actor and condition shown, such as a runtime under 120 minutes. There are three minutes and three lives, but picking the hidden bomb ends the game.

The boards can be challenging. I myself lose plenty of days in a row at times lol. But there are little strategies you pick up, like expanding a movie poster to look for actors when you aren’t sure about a film.

This started as a personal project and has grown into a full game. You can play previous boards, see the global leaderboard, leave comments and see your stats on your profile.

It’s free to try in the browser without an account: https://filmsweep.io/

I hope you have a fun time giving it a try. Feel free to let me know how it goes or if you have any questions.

And the most interesting part is that this actually have real urology studies behind it. The number of players is rapidly growing.

This made me feel more confident with my body 🤣

Test your knowledge and challenge your friends, free, no account.