Futbolle Age Order

About Futbolle Age Order

Age Order is one of the daily games on Futbolle, a football puzzle site. Each puzzle is numbered and dated, and shows five players as cards with a photo and a name. Nothing else is given: no club, no birth date, no hint. You tap them into five slots from youngest to oldest and press Check.

A wrong order is not the end. Players in the right slot turn green and stay put, and the others go back to the row so you can try again. You get three tries in all. The five are always at least two years apart in age, so there is only one correct order, and ages are worked out on the day from Wikipedia birth dates.

At the top you choose All leagues or a single league: Süper Lig, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga or Ligue 1. Each has its own five for the day, so there are seven sets to play. Players are drawn from the most-read Wikipedia pages of each league, and a player only comes back once the rest of the pool has had a turn, always with four new team-mates.

Unlike guess-the-player games, you never type a name: the whole puzzle is a sense of when each player arrived on the scene. It suits football fans who follow the big European leagues and want a quick daily round, and the share button copies a result with no spoilers.

How to play Futbolle Age Order

1. Open Age Order on Futbolle and pick All leagues or a single league at the top.
2. Look at the five player cards and decide who is youngest and who is oldest.
3. Tap the players in order, youngest first, to fill the five numbered slots.
4. Press Check: players in the right slot lock in green, the others go back to the row.
5. Reorder the players that came back and check again, with three tries in total.
6. Share your result, then try the other leagues' sets for the day.

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Tips

• Place the oldest and the youngest first; with those two locked only three players are left to order.
• After a wrong check, keep the green players and move only the ones that came back.
• Think of when you first heard of a player, a breakthrough season or a tournament, rather than how old he looks.
• Most mistakes are two neighbours the wrong way round, so try swapping adjacent players before reshuffling.

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