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How do you play 321 Football?

321 Football is a football knowledge game: you are given two axes — two clubs, or a country and a club — and asked to name a player who fits both. Answers never live on the device; every answer is checked against verified career records on our server, so a name you genuinely know is accepted and a guess is not.

The games

Club × Club

You are given two clubs and asked to name a player who wore both shirts. This is the classic game: you get three attempts and the first correct answer takes the round. The axes come only from the seven biggest leagues — left unrestricted, the pool would fill with pairings that are technically valid but unanswerable.

Country × Club

You are given a country and a club. What counts here is nationality, not caps: most players never appear for a senior national team, so requiring caps narrowed the pool to the point of being unplayable. With dual nationality, either country is a valid answer.

Grid

A three-by-three board with nine squares, each the intersection of a row club and a column club. You take turns picking a square and naming a player who turned out for both. You cannot use the same player twice, so where you spend the names you know matters. Complete a line, or hold more squares when the board fills.

Impostor

Four player names and one club are shown. Three of them really did play there and one never did — find the impostor. The impostor is drawn from the same league, so a vague sense of "that one looks off" will not carry you; you need to know the careers.

Mirror

A player sits in the middle and you have to name someone who shared a club with them. The middle name itself is off limits, and every name played is spent for the rest of the match, so the easy answers run out as the game goes on.

More or less

Two players appear side by side and you compare the total transfer fees paid for them across their careers. What is compared is not market value but money actually paid — two very different numbers. The figures are revealed only after you answer.

Who you play with

Solo

You play against a virtual opponent. It does not answer instantly, it still tries in rounds it will lose, and the questions come from the easiest band — a first match opening with an obscure pairing is the shortest path to never opening the game again.

Side by side

You put one device on the table and take turns. Answers are spoken aloud and the app referees: it tells you whether a name counts and, at the end of a round, reveals the valid answers nobody found.

Play in a room

You open a room and share a six-character code; your friends join from the browser. Five games take up to ten players, while Grid is for two — split nine squares between three people and a line becomes practically impossible.

Sign-up, devices and price

No sign-up and nothing to download: you start playing as a guest the moment the page loads. An account is only needed for friends, the leaderboard, and carrying your match history between devices. The browser version runs on desktop and mobile browsers; the iOS and Android apps add real-time 1v1 matchmaking, friend invites and notifications.

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