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🏒 Guess the NHL player

Balltelligence's NHL game asks you to name a mystery hockey player. In Classic you get 8 guesses at a current player, and every guess shows seven clue tiles. In Legacy you name an all-time great from NHL history in 3 guesses.

Play today's NHL Daily

Who can be the answer?

• Daily: one of 48 current NHL stars. Everyone gets the same player that day.
• Free Play: pick a pool when a round starts: Stars (48 players), Regulars (171) or Full roster (1175). It locks in with your first guess.
• Any guess: you can guess anyone on a current roster, all 1175 of them, even when they can't be the answer.

Rosters: 2026–27 preseason rosters (as of Sep 22, 2026).

Reading the NHL clue tiles

Each guess fills a row: Team, Conf, Div, Pos, Ht, Age and #. Green means an exact match. Yellow means close: height, age or number within 2, or a position in the same group. Gray means no match, and arrows show whether the answer is higher or lower.

• Team: the team's abbreviation (see the list below). Green or gray only.
• Conf: East or West.
• Div: the division, shortened, for example ATL, METRO or CEN.
• Pos: green for the same position, yellow for the same position group:
  • Forwards: C (center), LW (left wing), RW (right wing)
  • Defensemen: D (defenseman)
  • Goaltenders: G (goaltender)
• Ht, Age, #: height, age today and jersey number, with arrows.

After 3 guesses you can take up to 3 hints (the draft and country, then initials, then the jersey badge). Hard mode hides Conf and Div and turns hints off.

NHL Legacy

Legacy picks a retired NHL legend. You see the number, the first and last seasons, every team and the career honors (All-Star selections, Stanley Cups and awards). Each miss unlocks a clue written by us. The game has 229 hand-picked NHL legends, and 154 of the best known can be the Legacy Daily. In Legacy Free Play, choose the eras you want, from the 1920s to the 2020s.

Recent NHL answers

Finished Dailies, with a write-up of each answer (spoilers):

• Sun, Oct 25
• Sat, Oct 24
• Fri, Oct 23
• Thu, Oct 22
• Wed, Oct 21
• Tue, Oct 20
• Mon, Oct 19

All past answers

NHL teams and their tile abbreviations