World Cup-dle (JLA Tactics Board)

About World Cup-dle (JLA Tactics Board)

Each World Cup-dle puzzle hides a national team's starting eleven from one World Cup match. You are told the stage of the tournament, the opponent and the formation, and you guess a national team and a year, with five guesses in all.

After a guess, the pitch lights up. A position turns green when a player in your guessed lineup played at the same club as the hidden player at the same time, and yellow when they played for the same club in different years. Either way the club badge appears in that spot, so the pitch fills with Chelsea, Tottenham or Manchester City crests that point you to the right squad and era.

Puzzles are numbered and dated, and there is a daily leaderboard. Today's and yesterday's puzzles are open to everyone; a free account unlocks the full archive and your stats. The game is made by the team behind the JLA Tactics Board, which also runs Prem-dle and Champs-dle.

How to play World Cup-dle (JLA Tactics Board)

1. Open the World Cup-dle page and read the stage, opponent and formation.
2. Guess a national team and a World Cup year.
3. Look at the pitch: green positions shared a club at the same time, yellow at different times, and the badge shows which club.
4. Use the badges to narrow down the squad and era.
5. Name the exact team and year within five guesses.

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Tips

• Formation and opponent often point to a decade before any badge appears.
• A cluster of badges from one league usually means a nation whose players were based there.
• Make the first guess a big nation from a likely era to light up as many badges as possible.

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