Ball Don't Cry

Ball Don't Cry is a daily NBA guessing game played in the browser, made by Kevin Wang. Each puzzle is a career table of the kind you would see on a stats site: one row per season with games played and started, minutes, points, rebounds, assists, shooting percentages, steals, blocks and turnovers. The team column is blurred, so you have to recognise the player from the shape of the numbers alone.

Each day has a numbered puzzle with three players, and you get three guesses for each, picked from a name list as you type, or you can give up. Once a player is named, the teams are shown. A long career with a slow start, a peak and a decline points one way; a short career of big scoring numbers points another. Past puzzles are in an archive, and an Infinite mode in the menu gives more players to guess.

Compared with Poeltl, where every wrong guess tells you how close you were on team, position and height, Ball Don't Cry leans on the table itself, so it rewards players who know box scores well. It is free, shows no ads, and an optional Google sign-in keeps your solves in sync.