How to play
Eight questions a day, the same for everyone. Each has many right answers. The rarer yours is, the bigger the score.
A day
- A new game opens at midnight, Sydney time. One go a day.
- Eight shots, two a quarter. Each shot is a question with many right answers: name one.
- You have 30 seconds a shot, the time a player has for a set shot. The clock keeps running if you leave the page.
- One answer a shot. A wrong answer, or none in time, scores nothing.
Scoring
Super goal. One of the rarest right answers: the rarest tenth of them. 9 points, as a goal from outside 50 was in the pre-season cup.
Goal. A right answer most people would not think of first. 6 points.
Behind. One of the best-known right answers: the best-known fifth of them, and never fewer than three. 1 point.
No score. A wrong answer is out on the full. Thirty seconds without an answer is the siren.
The day reads as a pre-season score, super goals first: 1.5.1 (40) is one super goal, five goals and a behind. The best a day can be is 8.0.0 (72).
Every right answer is also a kick from somewhere, and the rarer the answer, the longer the kick: a behind from inside 20 m, a goal from 20 to 50 m, a super goal from outside 50. Your metres for the day are added up beside the score, so two days on the same score are told apart.
At full time a graph shows where your score sits in the field. That field is the game's own form guide, not real players: nothing you play leaves your browser, so the game cannot see anyone's score.
Which answers are behinds is decided when the day is made, from each player's games, goals, Brownlow votes and medals, how lately he played, and whether the question is about his main club. It does not move during the day, so the first player and the last are scored the same.
Typing
- Type a name and kick. Capitals, hyphens, apostrophes and accents do not matter.
- One letter out still counts, for a name of five letters or more.
- A surname alone counts. If more than one right answer has that surname, you get the best known of them, so a vague answer earns the lower score.
- If the game does not know the name at all, it says so and the shot stays alive. The clock keeps running.
- For a club, its name or its nickname will do: Collingwood, or Magpies.
- No players' nicknames yet.
Where the answers come from
The answers come from the game's own records: every season from 1990 to 2026 (who played for which club, the number he wore, his games, goals and Brownlow votes), the national draft, each season's ladder, and the rolls of premiers and of Brownlow, Coleman, Norm Smith and Rising Star winners. A question about lists, numbers, goals or drafts covers 1990 on, and its words say so.
- A season's goals count finals.
- Brisbane covers the Bears and the Lions. Footscray counts with the Western Bulldogs. Fitzroy stands on its own.
- If an answer is wrong or missing, tell us: hello@magnetboard.com.au.
Fair warning
Someone who goes looking can work out the answers from the page's files. There is nothing to win, so it only spoils their own game. There are no prizes, and there never will be.