Teammate Chain
Link two footballers through their club teammates, same club and same season. Beat par on the daily, three lives. Then race the clock in a timed run.
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Link two footballers through their club teammates, same club and same season. Beat par on the daily, three lives. Then race the clock in a timed run.
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Two players. Get the ball from the first to the second in short passes. Every pass has to go to a club teammate: someone who was at the same club in the same season as the player on the ball. He then becomes the man on the ball, and you pass again. The chain is complete as soon as you reach a player who played with the final name.
Par is the shortest route we know. On most days that is two players in between. You can use up to five. Beat par and you score 120. Match it and you score 100. Every extra pass costs points.
You have three lives. A pass to someone who never played with the man on the ball is a misplaced pass and costs a life. Lose all three and the move breaks down. If your chain heads somewhere useless, take the ball back. That is free. It just undoes your last pass so you can try a different route.
Work from both ends. Who did the last player play with at his biggest clubs? Who did the first player play with at his? You are looking for two squads that share a man. Players who moved between big clubs are the best connectors. So are long careers: a keeper who played fifteen seasons has hundreds of teammates.
Finish the chain to keep your streak. Your stats, streak, best score and par record save on your device and sync to your account when you sign in. Every past puzzle stays playable in the archive, but only today's counts towards your streak.
Once you know the daily, try a timed run: 1, 3 or 5 minutes on the clock and pair after pair to link. Finish a chain and you get 20 seconds back. A wrong pass costs 10 seconds. Skipping a pair costs 15. The first pairs need one player in between. Later ones need two. Your best for each length is saved on your device. Timed runs do not touch your streak.
This is six degrees of football: six degrees of separation, played with club teammates. Some people call it connect the players. Until October 2026 it was called Tiki-Taka here. Same game, same streaks.
Same club, same season. Loans count. National teams don't.
Every club-season since the early 1990s for 26,000 players with 20 or more top-flight appearances, plus older squads for the legends Transfermarkt doesn't cover.
Midnight UK. One puzzle a day, same for everyone.