What is Guess the Player?

Guess the Player is a free daily cricket puzzle, similar to Wordle. There is one mystery international cricketer each day and you have 8 guesses to find them.

What do the colours mean?

Green means the clue matches the mystery player exactly. Yellow means it is close: the same region, a related role, within 50 matches or within 2 years of their debut. Grey means it does not match.

What do the arrows mean?

On matches and debut year, an up arrow means the mystery player’s number is higher than your guess and a down arrow means it is lower.

When does a new player appear?

A new mystery cricketer is picked every day at midnight Indian Standard Time (IST). Everyone gets the same player on the same day.

Which players can be the answer?

Answers are international cricketers with at least 80 Test, ODI and T20I matches who debuted in 1995 or later. You can guess any player with at least 20 international matches.

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Guess the Player: Daily Cricket Puzzle

A new mystery cricketer every day. You have 8 balls to find them.

Puzzle #1 4 Nov 2026

8 of 8 balls left

Use ↑ ↓ to choose and Enter to guess

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How to play Guess the Player

Guess the Player is a free daily cricket puzzle, a cricket Wordle for fans who know their players. Every day there is one mystery international cricketer, the same for everyone, and you have 8 guesses, or balls, to work out who it is. Each guess reveals five clues that tell you how close you are.

How to play

Type the name of any international cricketer and choose them from the list.
Your guess flips five tiles: country, role, batting hand, international matches and debut year.
Use the colours and arrows to narrow it down, then guess again.
Find the mystery cricketer within 8 balls to win, then share your result.

What the clues mean

Green means the clue is an exact match for the mystery cricketer.
Yellow means you are close. The country is in the same region, the role is related (for example a batter and a wicket-keeper batter), matches are within 50, or the debut year is within 2 years.
Grey means the clue does not match.
Arrows on matches and debut year show whether the mystery cricketer's number is higher (↑) or lower (↓) than your guess.

Cricket regions used for country clues

A yellow country tile means your guess plays for a nation in the same region as the mystery cricketer:

Asia: India, Pakistan, Afghanistan, Nepal, Oman, United Arab Emirates
Oceania: New Zealand, Papua New Guinea
Europe: England, Ireland, Netherlands, Scotland
Africa: Zimbabwe, Namibia
Americas: West Indies, United States

Tips to solve it in fewer balls

Open with a well-known, long-serving player. A big match count and an early-2000s debut split the field in half straight away.
Lock the country first. A green country tile cuts the list to one squad; a yellow one tells you the region.
Follow the arrows. Matches and debut year work like a number line, so each guess should land between the bounds you already know.
Use the role and batting hand together. Left-handed wicket-keeper batters, for example, are a short list in any era.

Who can be the mystery cricketer?

Answers are men's international cricketers with at least 80 Test, ODI and T20I matches combined who debuted in 1995 or later. You can guess any international cricketer with at least 20 matches. Career numbers come from the CricketSky player stats database and update as matches are played. A new mystery player appears every day at midnight IST, and the previous answers are listed on this page.