Recorded answers
3,151 recorded answers
How to approach it
The pool is enormous, so the real work is scouting for obscurity rather than recall. Begin by picking one league and one roster tier — a promoted club's bench, a franchise's special-teams unit, a newly signed full-back nobody has watched yet — then walk the roster until a name surfaces that you have never heard spoken aloud. Resist the first five names that arrive; they are the ones everyone else types. Check spelling variants and initials, because unusual transliterations and apostrophes tend to hide names that few solvers think of. Before committing, ask whether the person has appeared in a competitive fixture this season; a name technically on the books is what the question allows, and that margin is where the deep answers live.
Get a hint
Start from the sheer size of the pool: two leagues, dozens of squads and a spread of roles that runs from kicking specialists to full-backs who barely feature.
A little more
Walk a roster the way a scout would, through reserve defenders, third-choice goalkeepers, undrafted newcomers and academy call-ups, and you reach the seam almost nobody else digs.
One step further
Spelling is a legitimate lever: surnames buried late in the alphabet, double-barrelled forms and odd transliterations usually sit in a shallower bucket than a name everyone can type.
Reveal answers 3,151
- LT OvertonDeep Cut85points
- Luca NetzDeep Cut85points
- Luca Williams-BarnettDeep Cut85points
- Lucas Gourna-DouathDeep Cut85points
- Lucas HerringtonDeep Cut85points
- Lucas KrullDeep Cut85points
- Lucas PatrickDeep Cut85points
- Lucas ScottDeep Cut85points
- Lucca BenettonDeep Cut85points
- Lucky JacksonDeep Cut85points
- Lukáš HorníčekDeep Cut85points
- Lukas NmechaDeep Cut85points
- Lukas Van NessDeep Cut85points
- Luke AltmyerDeep Cut85points
- Luke ChambersDeep Cut85points
- Luke FarrellDeep Cut85points
- Luke FortnerDeep Cut85points
- Luke GiffordDeep Cut85points
- Luke GoedekeDeep Cut85points
- Luke GrimmDeep Cut85points
- Luke HaggardDeep Cut85points
- Luke McCaffreyDeep Cut85points
- Luke MusgraveDeep Cut85points
- Luke NewmanDeep Cut85points
- Luke O'NienDeep Cut85points
- Luke RhodesDeep Cut85points
- Luke SchoonmakerDeep Cut85points
- Luke TenutaDeep Cut85points
- Luke WattenbergDeep Cut85points
- Luke WoolfendenDeep Cut85points
- Luke WyplerDeep Cut85points
- M.J. StewartDeep Cut85points
- Maalik HashiDeep Cut85points
- Maason SmithDeep Cut85points
- Mac McWilliamsDeep Cut85points
- Macauley ZepaDeep Cut85points
- Maceo Beard-AigretDeep Cut85points
- Mack AllanDeep Cut85points
- Mack Wilson Sr.Deep Cut85points
- Maema NjongmetaDeep Cut85points
- Mahdi Nicoll-JazuliDeep Cut85points
- Major BurnsDeep Cut85points
- Malachi CorleyDeep Cut85points
- Malachi FieldsDeep Cut85points
- Malachi LawrenceDeep Cut85points
- Malachi MooreDeep Cut85points
- Malaki StarksDeep Cut85points
- Malcolm DeWalt IVDeep Cut85points
- Malcolm KoonceDeep Cut85points
- Malcolm RoachDeep Cut85points
Why these answers count
Almost everything clusters at 85 points: 2505 of the recorded answers landed in that band, which tells you the puzzle rewards depth of roster knowledge rather than household fame. The single 100-point answer, Tom King, stands alone at the top because apparently nobody else offered it. Names such as A.J. Haulcy and Aaron Banks, both at 85, are typical of that winning tier — players a devoted follower of one team knows and the wider public does not. Adetomiwa Adebawore, also at 85, fits the same profile: a rotational defender whose surname is long enough to stick only with people who actually watch the snaps. The 517 answers sitting at 60 points are the more familiar end of the scale, the picks a casual viewer reaches for first. Rarity drives the scoring, so the lesson runs against instinct: the more obvious a name feels, the less it is worth.