CAREER LADDER

One career, revealed stop by stop. Name the player before the ladder runs out.

Career Ladder: Guess the Soccer Player Quiz

Every round hides a real footballer behind their career ladder. You start with a single early stint, just a club, a season and a stat line, and work out who climbed it. The fewer clues you need, the bigger your score.

Career Ladder shows a mystery footballer's career one stop at a time, earliest club first. Each rung lists the club, season, stats and that season's market value. Name the player before the ladder runs out.

Early guesses are worth a fortune, late ones are worth crumbs, so every reveal is a small surrender. Play the shared daily or grind Unlimited with its two difficulty pools.

How to play Career Ladder, a free daily soccer career quiz

Choosing Daily or Unlimited mode

Pick Daily for the one ladder everyone shares today, or Unlimited for endless rounds.

Studying the first career stint

Study the first stint: a club, a season, appearances, goals and a value.

Typing a name from the suggestion list

Type at least 2 letters and pick a name from the list. Only listed names submit, so typos never cost you.

Letting wrong guesses reveal the next stop

Wrong guesses reveal the next career stop automatically. You can also reveal one on purpose, for a price.

Naming the player before the guesses run out

Name the player before the guesses run out, and early enough to protect the score.

Career Ladder rules: guesses, scoring and the daily pool

Getting six wrong guesses per ladder

You get 6 wrong guesses per ladder. The sixth miss ends the round.

Scoring from 1000 with wrong guesses and reveals

Scoring starts at 1000. Wrong guesses cost 100 each, reveals cost points scaled to career length, and the floor is 100. Giving up scores 0.

Revealing the whole career in one go

Revealing the whole career burns about 90 percent of the base score whether the ladder has 4 stops or 14.

Getting a nationality flag hint at the halfway point

A nationality flag hint appears once half the career is showing.

Resetting the daily ladder and the Legend pool

The daily flips at midnight Eastern Time and leans toward the harder half of the pool two days in three. Unlimited adds a Legend pool of pure deep cuts.

Career Ladder walkthrough: naming Cristiano Ronaldo early

Reading a promising first rung at Sporting CP

The first rung reads Sporting CP, a teenager scoring a handful of goals. Promising, but you buy one reveal. The next rung says Manchester United, and the ladder can only really be one man.

Confirming the name with two stints showing

You type three letters, pick Cristiano Ronaldo, and the ladder unrolls to confirm it. Two stints showing, zero misses, nearly the full 1000 banked.

Career Ladder tips for reading value and nationality clues

Reading the value column as a difficulty meter

The value column is a difficulty meter. A ladder peaking at 8 million is a journeyman story, not a superstar.

Spotting nationality clues in the youth clubs

Youth clubs and first leagues leak the nationality long before the flag hint appears.

Buying a cheap reveal over risky guesses

A cheap reveal often beats two expensive wrong guesses. Torn between three names? Buy the next rung.

Career Ladder FAQ: reveal costs and the Legend difficulty

How does the reveal cost work?

The button always shows the exact price of the next rung. Costs are bigger per rung on short careers, so a full reveal burns about the same anywhere.

What is the Legend difficulty in Unlimited?

It draws only from the harder half of the pool by peak market value. Same rules, lower fame, much harder ladders.

Is Career Ladder free to play?

Yes. Career Ladder is free to play on DoUKnowBall, right in your browser. No download and no signup needed.

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