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Germany World Cup 2014 Squad
Find all 4 who match · avoid the impostors
A new puzzle every day at your local midnight.
How to Play Find the Impostor
Find the Impostor gives you a category — a club, a trophy, a record — and a handful of footballers. Some of them fit it. The others are impostors: players picked because they look like they belong, not because they do. Your job is to select every player who fits and leave the impostors alone. One attempt per day.
How a round works
The category sits above the cards and the counter tells you how many players match it. Tap the ones you believe fit; tap again to deselect. When you are ready, press Submit. To win you must have selected every matching player and no impostor — one extra tap or one missed name loses the round, the answers are revealed on the cards, and that is your day. Everyone playing on the same date sees the same round.
The part that makes it hard
You are not told how many impostors there are. Some days there is one, some days two, and that uncertainty is the whole game. Marking a single card is the safe move and it is wrong roughly half the time; marking two is the greedy move and it fails whenever the round only had one. There is no way to buy information — so the decision has to come from the cards themselves.
How to actually find them
- Start from the majority, not the odd one out. Work out who definitely belongs; whoever is left over is your candidate.
- Nation rounds are about squads, not passports. A player born elsewhere who represents the country still belongs — the trait is who he plays for internationally.
- Club rounds punish stale knowledge. A player who left in the last window is exactly the kind of impostor these boards use.
- If two cards look equally out of place, look for the pair. Two impostors are often connected to each other by accident — same league, same age bracket — and that coincidence is a tell.
- Do not mark a card just because you do not recognise him. Obscurity is not evidence; a squad player you have never heard of is still in the squad.
Deciding between one and two
When you are confident about one impostor and unsure about a second, the honest question is whether your second candidate is genuinely out of place or merely unfamiliar. Certainty about the majority is worth more than suspicion about an individual. If you can construct a clean, complete story for the shared trait using every other card, then the round has one impostor. If one card refuses to fit that story no matter how you tell it, you have your second.
Where the players and traits come from
Cards are drawn from the six top leagues and every one has a real photograph. Club and nationality come from Wikipedia squad data refreshed as transfers happen, with images from TheSportsDB. Because the shared trait is read from real data rather than written by hand, the answer is always defensible — if a player moved clubs and the board has not caught up, the feedback button at the bottom of the page reaches us directly.
Scoring, sharing and the daily reset
The round is won or lost — but the result also shows how many you found and how many impostors you picked. The share button copies a spoiler-free result. A new set of cards arrives at midnight in your own time zone, and since there is only one attempt a day, comparing with friends is unusually meaningful — everybody had exactly one shot at the same puzzle.
Frequently Asked Questions
How do you play Find the Impostor?
You'll see 6-7 footballer cards. Most of them share the same club or the same nationality, but 1 or 2 don't belong — those are the impostors. Tap the cards you suspect, then hit Submit.
How do I know how many impostors there are?
You don't — that's the challenge! Some days there's just one impostor, other days there are two. To win, you must mark every single impostor correctly.
What happens if I guess wrong?
You only get one attempt per day — if your selection doesn't exactly match all the impostors when you hit Submit, the round is lost and the correct answer is revealed on the cards. Come back tomorrow for a new round.
Is it the same round for everyone?
Yes, the round is determined by the date — everyone playing on the same day sees the same cards and the same impostors, which makes comparing results with friends fun.