Tap the players from YOUNGEST to OLDEST
A new puzzle every day at your local midnight.
How to Play Age Order
Age Order shows you five footballers and asks for something you have never consciously memorised: put them in order from youngest to oldest. No birth dates, no hints, just five faces and the vague sense that one of them has been around longer than you thought.
How a round works
Tap the five players in the order you believe is correct, youngest first, then press Check. Players standing in the right position lock in green and stay; the ones in the wrong place bounce back out so you can re-order them. You get three tries in total, and each one carries forward everything you have already locked. The five are always at least two years apart in age, so there is exactly one correct order and never a coin-flip between near-twins.
How to think about it
Nobody knows five birth years. What you actually know is when players arrived — the season someone broke through, the tournament where they were the young one, the year they were already a veteran. Convert the question from *how old is he* to *when did I first hear of him*, and the ordering becomes far more reliable. Faces mislead constantly: some players look thirty at twenty-two, and a shaved head or a beard will cost you more places than any genuine knowledge gap.
Using the three tries properly
- Place the extremes first. You are usually most confident about the oldest and the youngest; getting those two locked turns a five-way problem into a three-way one.
- Do not reshuffle everything after a failed check. Green positions are information — keep them and move only the cards that came back.
- Swap adjacent pairs, not distant ones. Most wrong orders are two neighbouring players the wrong way round, not a complete misreading.
- Trust breakthrough seasons over faces. A player you remember as a teenage sensation five years ago is now twenty-three, however he looks today.
Where the players come from
Only well-known players are used. Choose All leagues and the five come from the 400 most-followed players across the Süper Lig, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga and Ligue 1; pick a single league and they come from the best-known players of that league. How well known a player is comes from how often their Wikipedia page is read in seven languages. A player returns only after the whole pool has had its turn — every few weeks in a league, every two to three months in All leagues — and always with four different team-mates. Birth dates come from Wikipedia squad data and ages are calculated live; images come from TheSportsDB.
Sharing and the daily reset
Your result is whether you got the order and how many tries it took. The share button copies a spoiler-free summary. Every league has its own five, and a new set arrives at midnight in your own time zone — the same five for everybody playing that league on that day.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you play Age Order?
You tap 5 footballers in order from youngest to oldest, based on what you know or can guess — no birth dates are shown upfront. Once you've tapped all 5, hit 'Check'.
What happens if I get the order wrong?
Players in the correct spot lock in green; the wrong ones bounce back so you can try again. You have 3 tries in total.
Can two players have similar ages?
No — the five are always at least two years apart, so there is exactly one correct order.
Can I play with only one league?
Yes. Pick a league at the top (Süper Lig, Premier League, La Liga, Serie A, Bundesliga or Ligue 1) or stay on All leagues. Each one has its own daily five, so you can play all seven every day.
Will I recognise the players?
That's the idea: only the best-known players are used, measured by how often their Wikipedia pages are read. A player comes back only every few weeks, and never with the same four team-mates.