NFL Six Points

Six Points gives you one NFL surname a day and six guesses to find it - six points, a touchdown. The board is exactly as wide as today's name - four letters some days, nine on others - and that width is the only clue you get for free. Type a guess and submit it, and the row resolves left to right: a filled gold tile means that letter is in the right spot, a teal outline means the letter is in the name but somewhere else, and a dark tile means it is not in the name at all. Repeated letters are scored honestly, so if the name holds one E and you guess three, only one of them lights up. Your guesses do not have to be real players - a probe word that burns a row to test five new letters is a legitimate move. Everyone in the world gets the same name each day, and no name is ever used twice.

• Open with vowels and common consonants. A name like RIVERA or STARKS tells you far more on guess one than a wild stab at a name you already suspect.
• Read the length before you type. A four-letter board and a nine-letter board are completely different pools - WATT and JEFFERSON are not on the same shortlist.
• A teal tile is worth more than it looks. Knowing a letter is present but misplaced usually kills more candidates than a gold tile does.
• Watch for doubles. Plenty of NFL surnames carry a repeated letter, and the board tells you honestly how many of a letter the name holds.
• Spend a row on information when you are stuck. Six guesses is generous - a deliberate probe on guess three often beats a hopeful name.
• Think in eras. If the letters are not resolving toward a current star, the answer is often someone from the 80s or 90s.

Six Points is sacked.gg's daily NFL name game - a football-flavored word puzzle in the shape people know, built on our own player database rather than a dictionary. The answer is always a surname drawn from the eligible player pool, filtered so every name belongs to a player a fan can actually picture, and surnames that are also ordinary English words are excluded on purpose: solving GREEN or MOSS is a word game, not a football one. Length varies day to day, which is why the board's width is stated up front. Duplicate surnames are harmless here because the answer is a WORD, not a person - the reveal simply credits the name to its most recognizable owner. Every player worldwide gets the same puzzle, and the never-repeat rule means a name that has been used is retired for good.

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