RFM Games: Football Puzzles

The back page, every day.

RFM Games is a daily edition of four football puzzles. A new edition lands at midnight, the same puzzles for everyone, free every day. Play it with your morning coffee, share your score, and come back tomorrow for the next one.

THE FOUR GAMES

SCOUT: Name the player, letter by letter. You have six guesses to find a footballer's surname, and every letter is marked: right place, wrong place, or not in the name. There are three a day, each longer than the last: the Friendly, the Play-off and the Final.

TEAMSHEET: Footballers are hidden in a grid of letters. Trace them out one name at a time, until every letter in the grid is used.

SQUADS: Sixteen players, four groups. Same club, same country, same something. Find what links them before you make four mistakes.

TWO HALVES: Sixteen fragments, eight surnames. Put every player back together. Working out which pieces start a name is half the puzzle.

FROM THE 1970s TO TODAY
The players come from the top leagues of England, Spain, Italy, Germany and France, from the legends of the 1970s to this season's squads. Every puzzle is set in a league and an era, and drawn from the players people actually remember.

STUCK? TAKE A HINT
Every game has hints that help without giving the answer away: a player's club, the letters in a name, which piece starts a surname. You get three free hints a day, shared across all four games. Every hint costs points, so the best scores are earned.

ERA PACKS
Want more? Era Packs are themed collections of puzzles you keep: England's Lionesses, Brazil in the 1990s, and more to come. The first puzzle in each game is free to try.

YOUR STREAK
Finish a puzzle each day and your streak grows, win or lose. Miss a day and it starts again.

SHARE YOUR SCORE
Share your result as a grid of squares, with no spoilers, in one tap.

PAPER BY DAY, TELETEXT BY NIGHT
Read the back page in print, switch to Teletext after dark, or let it follow your phone's dark mode.

NO ACCOUNT. NO ADS.
There's no sign-up and there are no adverts, and the daily puzzles work offline. Your results and streak are kept on your phone, and in iCloud on an iPhone.

From Coast Gaming, the makers of Retro Football Management.