Complete any Sportdle once per day to keep the global streak alive. Each game mode also tracks its own streak separately.
NHL Clue Ladder — Daily hockey player clue game
NHL Clue Ladder gives you one NHL clue at a time — the fewer rungs you need, the better you score. It rewards deep fans who can spot a player from a single piece of information.
The ladder opens with a hard clue: maybe a draft year, a jersey number, or a career stat. Each wrong guess drops you down one rung and unlocks an easier clue, all the way to obvious tells like the franchise or nationality. Expert players chase the top rungs; casual players let the ladder do the work.
Clue Ladder and NHL Classic share an answer pool, so the two modes reinforce each other — clues you've seen in Classic give you a sharper nose for Clue Ladder, and vice versa. Combine both to build a feel for which NHL players Sportdle is currently rotating.
Solve today's puzzle to extend your streak. Unlimited random rounds are available if you want to keep climbing.
Frequently asked questions
- How is NHL Clue Ladder scored?
- You start at the top of the ladder and drop one rung per wrong guess. The fewer rungs you use, the higher your final position. Solving at the top rung is the best possible score.
- What kind of clues appear in NHL Clue Ladder?
- Clues range from hard (jersey number, specific career stats) to easy (current franchise, country). The exact mix depends on what data Sportdle has for the answer player.
- Is it the same player as NHL Classic?
- No — each mode picks its own daily answer independently, though they draw from overlapping pools of NHL players.
- Can I play Clue Ladder more than once a day?
- Yes. The daily puzzle sets your streak, but you can play unlimited random rounds from the same page at any time.
- Is Sportdle the NHL Wordle?
- Yes — Sportdle is widely played as the NHL Wordle. It's a free daily hockey player guessing game in the same format as Wordle, but with NHL players instead of words. NHL Clue Ladder is one of several Sportdle modes, all of which refresh every day.