Type what you know
Every question asks you to name something that is true. One answer is enough — but the more obscure, the better it scores. Aliases, accents and common short forms are all accepted.
What is Longshots?
A daily football quiz built on one idea: the rarer the answer, the more spectacular the goal.
Longshots is a free daily football quiz for people who know their football — and for people who want to find out how much they really know. Instead of picking from four options, you type an answer. A club, a player, a manager, a country. Anything that fits the question is a goal.
What makes Longshots different is what happens next. Your answer is graded by rarity. Name the most obvious club and you score a six-yard tap-in. Dig out a forgotten cup winner from the 19th century and your shot is suddenly a 40-yarder, a halfway-line strike, or the holy grail: a 100-yard keeper’s goal.
Each match day is seven questions with 25 seconds on the clock. A perfect round is 700 yards. Miss the target and the keeper saves it, a defender blocks it, or the ball ends up in Row Z. Run out of time and you get slide-tackled. The full-time whistle brings a match report, a shot map, the full answer sheets and a score you can share.
It is free to play, needs no sign-up, and resets every day at midnight UTC. If you cannot wait for tomorrow, Longshots Unlimited is the endless version: three lives, a streak multiplier, and the entire question bank to work through.
Sample question · today’s match day 6
Name a player who scored in a men's World Cup final for the winning team.
Seven shots. Three minutes. One score to share.
A daily routine for football obsessives. No accounts, no ads, no nonsense.
Rarity is distance
Tap-ins are worth 6 yards. Edge-of-the-box 18. A 40-yarder 40. A halfway-line answer 55. The rarest answers are 100-yard keeper’s goals. Seven questions, 700 yards available.
Full-time bragging rights
From Sunday League to Ballon d’Or, your total earns a title. See the shot map, read the match report, open the full team sheets and share your score card.
The five distances
Every correct answer belongs to one of five rarity tiers. The rarer the name, the longer the shot.
| Tier | Yards | What it means |
|---|---|---|
| Tap-in | 6 yds | The obvious answer. Almost everyone gets it. |
| Edge of the box | 18 yds | A well-known alternative — tidy fan knowledge. |
| 40-yarder | 40 yds | Proper supporter territory. Requires a second thought. |
| Halfway line | 55 yds | Deep-cut knowledge. Historic names live here. |
| Keeper's goal | 100 yds | The ultra-rare answer. Box to box, one in a million. |
PERFECT SCORE · 700 YDS · 188 correct answers across today’s sheet
Why Longshots is different
Built for real football knowledge — and for the highlight-reel moment when a deep cut pays off.
No invented questions
Every answer sheet is built from public records and checked against sources. No “probably true” trivia, no fake stats. If it is on the sheet, it happened.
Shots that feel like shots
A real-time 3D stadium, a ball that travels the actual distance of your answer, a keeper who dives, a net that ripples, a crowd that reacts. Your knowledge decides the highlight.
Daily and unlimited
Play the seven-question daily, then keep going in Longshots Unlimited — three lives, streak multipliers and keeper’s goals that buy a life back.
No account, no tracking
Longshots stores your score in your own browser. No email, no login, no ad tech, no analytics profile. Just football.
Today’s match day #6
World Cup finals · English stadiums · Benfica · Shirts & Numbers · Africa Cup of Nations teams · 7 questions
Today’s Longshots round is live now. If you have already played, the full-time page keeps your score, shot map and answer sheets; if not, the clock starts as soon as you kick off. Tomorrow’s match day unlocks at midnight UTC.
Want to see how earlier rounds were scored? Browse the Longshots archive for every previous match day, including the questions, the full tiered answer sheets and the fun facts behind the answers.
Kick off
Seven questions. 25 seconds each.
Longshots FAQ
The things players ask before their first shot.
What is Longshots?
Longshots is a free daily football quiz with a difference: there are no multiple-choice options. Each question asks you to name something — a club that has won the FA Cup, a player who has scored in a World Cup final, a manager who has taken charge of Real Madrid. The rarer your correct answer, the further from goal your shot starts.
How does the scoring work?
Every correct answer is placed in a tier. Obvious answers are tap-ins worth 6 yards; lesser-known answers are edge-of-the-box (18), 40-yarders (40) or halfway-line strikes (55). The rarest answers earn a 100-yard keeper’s goal. Seven questions gives a maximum of 700 yards.
How often does Longshots update?
A new Longshots match day goes live every day at 00:00 UTC. There are seven questions, 25 seconds per question, and the whole round takes about three minutes.
Do I need an account to play Longshots?
No. Longshots is free and needs no sign-up, no email and no app. Your score and streak are saved in your browser’s local storage, not on a server.
What is Longshots Unlimited?
Longshots Unlimited is the endless mode. You get three lives, a streak multiplier and a fresh mix of questions from the full Longshots question bank. Rare answers score further, and a keeper’s goal earns a life back. It never locks you out — you can play as many runs as you like.
Is Longshots a Wordle-style daily game?
It shares the daily-game rhythm — one set of questions, the same for everyone, a shareable result — but the mechanic is different. Longshots is a free-text football quiz where knowledge, not guessing, determines how far out you score.