How to Play SquadXOX

The basics

Name a player who played for both clubs

SquadXOX is a football grid puzzle — also known as a footy grid or football tic tac toe. You get a 3×3 grid. Each row and each column is a football club. Every cell sits where a row club and a column club cross, and your job is to name one footballer who played official matches for both of those clubs.

Example: the Chelsea × Arsenal cell could be Cesc Fàbregas. The Milan × Juventus cell could be Andrea Pirlo. There is almost always more than one correct answer — any valid player fills the cell.

Step by step

Playing a round

• Tap a cell. Start anywhere — there is no fixed order.
• Type a player. Begin typing a name and pick from the suggestions. Spelling help is built in.
• Lock it in. If the player really appeared for both clubs, the cell turns green and shows the player.
• Wrong guess? If the player never played for one of the two clubs, the cell shakes and you keep your streak-focus but use up a guess — so think before you commit.
• Finish the grid. Fill all nine cells to complete the puzzle.

Scoring & rarity

Common picks vs. deep cuts

Every correct answer counts, but SquadXOX rewards knowledge, not just a right answer. Each player you name carries a rarity score based on how often other players picked them:

• Obvious picks (the superstar everyone names) score safe but low.
• Rare picks — the forgotten loanee, the one-season journeyman — score much higher and show off real Football IQ.
• Your grid gets a combined rarity grade, so two people can both finish and still get very different scores.

That is the whole game: anyone can fill a grid, but naming the deep cut is what separates the fans from the fanatics.

Modes

Daily grid & live duels

Daily mode

A fresh grid drops every day and it is the same grid for everyone — so you can compare your rarity score with friends and the global board. Come back daily to keep your run going.

Live duels

Go head-to-head with another player on the same grid in real time. Faster, rarer answers win the duel. It is the quickest way to find out who actually knows their football.

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