Worpel

Worpel is the AFL take on the mystery player games that spread after Wordle, the same family as Poeltl for the NBA and Who Are Ya for football. There is one mystery player a day, chosen from current AFL lists, and you have eight guesses to find him.

Each guess fills a row of columns: team, state, position, debut year, height, age and jumper number. Green in any column is a match. Yellow means close, and what close means depends on the column: in the team column it means the mystery player's club shares one or more colours with your guess, in the state column that he plays in a bordering state, and in the position column a partial match, such as a key defender against a medium defender. In the number columns, yellow means you are within three centimetres, years or numbers. If you are stuck you can show the player's silhouette.

Worpel Legends is a second daily puzzle on the same site, counted from September 2022, where the answer is any player with 150 or more games since 2013. Its columns suit longer careers: last team, position, number of clubs, last season, height, premierships and jumper number. Height and jumper number show an arrow pointing up or down toward the answer, in both games.

The game is free with ads, needs no account and keeps your streak and guess distribution in the browser. It rewards fans who know lists beyond their own club, since height and debut year are often what separate two similar players.