Ball Knowledge Game: Daily Football Quizzes

The Ball Knowledge game at ball-knowledge.com is a free collection of daily football quizzes. On this site, football means the game also called soccer. “Ball knowledge” is the site’s own gloss: knowing the players, clubs, transfers, stats, and history, including the obscure parts. The rules below come from the homepage and the Deep Cuts page, checked on 14 November 2026. Other products use the same words for other sports. They are named at the end so a score from one is not compared with a score from another.

What is the Ball Knowledge game?

The homepage says you can play with no sign-up. Every game you finish earns XP and keeps a daily streak. Leaderboards need a display name, not an email. The FAQ says the site has 20 daily football games plus 14 trivia quizzes. The quizzes it names cover the Premier League, the Champions League, the World Cup, and major clubs. Daily games it lists as using the same puzzle for every visitor include Football Wordle, Bingo, and Name Them All, so those days are comparable. Deep Cuts has its own clock, noted below.

The games are grouped on the homepage. A few titles are enough to see the spread. Deep Cuts pays more for the obscure player. Career Path and Who Am I ask you to identify a player from clubs or clues. Missing 11 asks you to name a real starting lineup. Football Wordle is a surname in six tries, one puzzle a day. Transfer Bridge, Crossover, and Guess the Fee are about moves between clubs. Football Grid, Connections, and Bingo are puzzle shapes borrowed from other daily games, filled with footballers. The homepage is the index. This guide does not invent a ruleset for every tile.

How do you play the Ball Knowledge game?

If you arrived from a rare-answer search, start with Deep Cuts. Every day there is one football question with many correct answers. The page’s example is “Name a player who has played for both Chelsea and AC Milan.” Anyone can name the obvious one. The mode wants the player other people do not name.

You get five shots. Every guess uses a shot, right or wrong, so a wrong name is expensive. A name the game does not recognise is free: it does not use a shot, and the site says it logs the name so the player can be added later. Recognition is limited to the Ball Knowledge player database, which the FAQ says grows over time. A real player can therefore miss, and the miss is not your error.

Each correct answer becomes a scout card worth 0 to 100 points. The rarer the pick among players, the higher the card. A wrong answer is marked offside and scores nothing, and it still spends a shot. Your total is out of 500. The page’s bands are Hidden Gem at 85 or higher, Gold from 65 to 84, Silver from 35 to 64, Bronze from 10 to 34, and Common under 10 for the name everyone said.

Everyone gets the same question. It changes at midnight UK time. Past questions stay playable from the arrows or the calendar, with their own leaderboards and pick statistics. Only today’s question earns XP.

The rest of the homepage is a menu, not a sequence you must finish. Missing 11, Football A-Z, and the league quizzes are separate dailies. Finish the ones you care about. The streak and XP notes on the homepage are the reason to come back, and the Deep Cuts page is the one that says only today pays XP for that mode.

Is there an unlimited mode?

Deep Cuts is one shared question per UK day, plus an archive of earlier questions that do not pay XP. That archive is how you practice. It is not a generator of new questions. Across the site you can open many different games on the same day, which is a wide menu rather than an unlimited button on one game.

Rarest Answer does have a free unlimited mode, and its prompts are general knowledge: animals, food, geography, and the other categories on this site, not a footballer database. The scoring idea is similar. A common correct answer is worth less than a rare correct one. Our tiers are Common through Legendary, from 5 points to 100, on today’s round. Deep Cuts runs the points from about 0 for the popular name up to about 100 for the name almost nobody found, across five shots on one question. Read the rarest answers pages for our lists. They will not name a Chelsea squad.

What helps on Deep Cuts?

Spend shots on players you can actually place at the clubs in the question. A rare name that never played for them is offside and costs a shot. A name you are sure about and that casual fans forget is the Hidden Gem shape. The database gap is real: if a correct player is rejected and the shot is not spent, that rejection is the “name we don’t know” rule, not a sign that the player is fictional.

For the non-football version of the same instinct, use how to find rare answers. Krillion, Cosmillion, and Seldom are the general-knowledge cousins. Games like Wordle is where Football Wordle’s six-try surname grid sits next to the original word game. A survey of the daily set is on games like Krillion.

Which Ball Knowledge is which?

This page is ball-knowledge.com only. Search results on the same day also showed ballknowledgeapp.com, which describes daily games for the NFL, NBA, MLB, and NHL, and ballknowledgegaming.com, which describes fantasy-style drafts from a random span of seasons. I did not use those sites’ detailed rules here. If your link is one of those domains, you are in a different game. Leaderboards do not cross.

Which pages were checked?

ball-knowledge.com and Deep Cuts, on 14 November 2026.