How to Play Hambone Sports

Choose a sport and difficulty

Start with today's baseball, basketball, or football challenge. The challenge title tells you which team, statistic, and time period to consider.

Choose Easy or Hard before your first guess. Easy uses the first ten players on the leaderboard; Hard uses the full challenge list. The difficulty locks once you start guessing.

1. Find players from the list

Use the search box to guess players who belong in the hidden ranked list. For example, Top 100 Career Hits Leaders.

2. Score points

Each correct player reveals a card and earns points equal to their rank. Lower-ranked players are worth more points.

3. Watch your strikes

Guessing a player outside the list gives you a strike. After three strikes, correct guesses are worth double points.

4. Choose your risk

A fourth strike ends the game with a score of zero. After three strikes, you can bank your points at any time to finish safely.

5. Finish the challenge

Reveal every player for a perfect score. When the game ends, you can view the complete answer list. A new challenge is available every day.

A scoring example

A correct guess at rank 8 earns 8 points. If you already have three strikes, that same correct guess earns 16 points. Doubling applies to new correct guesses, so the points you earned before your third strike do not double.

Once you have three strikes, decide whether to keep guessing for more points or use Take Points to keep your current score. A fourth incorrect guess finishes the game with zero points. Guessing a player you already tried produces an already-guessed message instead of another strike.

Save your progress

You can play without an account. Guest progress is saved in your current browser, so clearing browser storage can remove it. To save scores to an account and track your statistics across games, sign up or log in before playing. Scores from previous day's games completed as a guest cannot be saved afterward.

Play earlier challenges

Use Previous Games inside a sport to browse its archive, or open the baseball archive, basketball archive, or football archive. Each game has its own challenge and URL, so you can return to earlier boards.

If you need help or think a challenge contains an error, contact Hambone Sports with the sport and game number.