CraftedNBA Games

About CraftedNBA Games

CraftedNBA is a basketball analytics site with player pages, projections and a market, and its games page gathers a set of three daily NBA puzzles. Finishing any one of them starts a streak, a countdown shows when the set resets at midnight Eastern Time, and an archive holds past days.

Guess the Player is the site's answer to Wordle: one mystery player a day, the same for everyone. You start on 100 points and reveal clues such as rookie season, position, age, height, conference, division and per-game stats for 5 points each; a wrong guess costs 10 points and one of your three guesses. Spin & Pin tells you where a player was born and asks you to find it on a spinning globe, scoring the miles you are off, with Standard and Expert modes of four players each. Streak asks you to call whether an NBA legend finished with more or fewer of a career stat, over 25 rounds with three misses allowed and one attempt a day.

Beside the daily three are lineup games: Daily Five, where you pick five players from the night's games under a salary cap, and team builders for current players and all-time greats. The games are free and the site carries ads; a paid membership adds stat tracking, leaderboards and cross-device streaks. The set suits NBA fans who want a few different kinds of challenge each morning.

How to play CraftedNBA Games

1. Open craftednba.com/games and look at Today's Puzzles: Streak, Spin & Pin and Guess the Player.
2. In Guess the Player, reveal clues for 5 points each and type the player's name; a wrong guess costs 10 points and you have three.
3. In Spin & Pin, read each player's birthplace, spin the globe and drop a pin as close as you can; fewer total miles is better.
4. In Streak, call higher or lower on each legend's career stat, for up to 25 rounds before three misses end it.
5. Finish any one game to keep your streak, and come back after midnight Eastern for a new set.

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Tips

• In Guess the Player, take cheap broad clues like conference and position first before the per-game stats.
• Do not guess until two or three clues agree: a miss costs twice a clue.
• In Spin & Pin, use Standard mode first; Expert gives less to go on.
• In Streak, think about career length as well as peak: long careers pile up totals.

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