Sports Reveal

Sports Reveal comes from Sam Shulman and Alex Nunan, who also make the film games Movie Grid and Movie Reveal. It applies the Movie Reveal idea to athletes: each day's player is hidden behind a board of facts, and you decide how much to uncover before you guess.

There are two daily puzzles, one for the NFL and one for the NBA. The board starts with the player's position. The rest of the facts are hidden: up to three teams, ordered by games played; career stats suited to the position, three for an NFL player (sacks, tackles for loss and forced fumbles for a defensive end) and six per-game numbers for an NBA player; and details like height, weight, age, career length, college, Pro Bowl count (All-Star count in the NBA puzzle), draft position and draft year.

You begin with 100 points, and revealing information lowers what you can score, so the skill is in picking the clues that narrow things most. Each fact has its own price, from 2 or 3 points for a stat to 20 for the first team, and making a guess costs nothing. You have five guesses, and you can give up if you are stuck. The puzzles get harder as the week goes on, from Monday to Sunday. Player stats are kept up to date during the season, and player photos come from Wikimedia Commons.

The site also links to the makers' movie games, so it suits people who play Movie Grid or Movie Reveal and want the same format for sports.

When you finish, the game shows your score, your win streak and how your score ranks against other players that day, with a result you can copy or post to Twitter.