CFB Wordle (Draft Challenger)

CFB Wordle is part of Draft Challenger, a sports site that runs daily player boards for several leagues beside its all-time draft game. Each day there is one hidden college football player on each of two boards, and a fixed number of guesses.

On the Wordle board you type a player's name and lock in a guess from the current rosters, and the row compares them with the answer on campus, position, height and jersey number. Each tile shows a match, a close miss or a miss, with arrows on height and number, so every guess narrows the field. Eight names is the limit.

Classic is harder. The answer comes from college seasons going back to 1920, and the board names the era, the number of honours and the day's position group (quarterbacks, rushers, receivers, front seven or secondary), with a worked example row. Every guess is set against the answer's real college season: position, season, school and that group's stats, each tile exact, close, similar or far, with arrows toward the right number. After four misses the school's city shows, and after seven a further fact appears with the option to open the answer.

Both boards change at midnight US Eastern time and keep their own streaks on your device; a panel shows yesterday's player. The same site has College Football Grid, College Football Connections and a career simulator. It suits fans who follow college football rosters and its history closely.