Top 10#23

Name all 10 on the board — 5 lives

Name the 10 all-time top scorers in Ligue 1

Source: Wikipedia. 2 players are level in last place — any of them counts.

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How to play Football Top 10

Top 10 — the football tenable format — doesn't test what you know, it tests what you can retrieve. You get a question, something like “Real Madrid's 10 most expensive signings”, and ten empty slots. You almost certainly know all ten answers. Getting all ten out of your head at once is the hard part.

The idea in one paragraph

Every question has exactly ten correct answers, ranked by a number. Type a name; if it's on the list it drops into its own rank with its value shown. You have 5 wrong guesses. Order is irrelevant — naming the seventh before the first is fine.

How to think about it

  • Start with the obvious one. The name at the top is usually the one everybody knows, and it opens a slot for free.
  • Sweep by era. The names that won't come to you are usually from a different decade — when the 2010s run dry, drop back to the 2000s.
  • Save the shaky guesses for last. Five lives is not many; burn three on hunches and you've no room left to actually think.
  • Repeats are free. Typing the same wrong answer twice costs nothing — you just get a nudge.

Where the questions come from

The current lists are calculated from verified transfer data: 188 fee records drawn from Wikipedia's most-expensive-transfers list and the English season lists. Nothing is typed in by hand, so the numbers aren't guesses — and the lists refresh themselves as the data grows. Tournament lists are coming.

Scoring, sharing and the daily reset

There's no score, just how many of the ten you got. The shareable result is a row of squares that gives nothing away. A new question arrives at midnight in your own time zone, and everyone playing that day gets the same one.

Frequently Asked Questions

How do you play Football Top 10?

You get a question and ten empty slots. Type answers that fit the question to fill them. You have 5 wrong guesses.

Is this the same as football tenable?

Same format, yes — ten correct answers, limited lives. This is the daily soccer version of it.

Do I have to answer in order?

No. Whatever you type drops into its own rank automatically.

Will a surname on its own be accepted?

Usually yes. But when two answers on the same list share a surname, the full name is required — otherwise there's no way to tell which one you meant.

Is there a new question every day?

Yes, a new list is picked at midnight in your own time zone.