How to play Career Path (MLB)
Career Path clues describe a player’s whole career instead of one stint. You pick a team and an era, and the mystery player is someone who spent time with that team in that era. It comes in two forms: practice puzzles any time, and a Daily Challenge that is the same for everyone.
How a round works
There are five clues. The first two are free and shown at the start; the other three are hidden until you reveal them. The first clue lists every team he played for, in order, with the years. The second gives a career batting or pitching line. Later clues describe his role or playing style, share a notable fact from his career, and finish with a second set of career stats.
You have up to nine guesses, and a Give up button appears after three.
Scoring
- Your score is the time on the clock, in seconds, plus a penalty for each extra clue you reveal. Lower is better.
- Extra clues cost 5 seconds for the first, 10 for the second and 15 for the third.
- A wrong guess doesn’t add time, but it uses up one of your nine guesses.
- Practice puzzles have a leaderboard for each team and era. Daily puzzles have a leaderboard for each team and day.
The Daily Challenge
Every team gets one shared puzzle each day, identical for everyone. The day changes at midnight US Eastern time, and the new puzzles are ready shortly after. The era rotates by weekday: Monday to Wednesday uses 2000–present, Thursday and Friday use 1974–1999, and Saturday and Sunday use 1947–1973.
Signed-in players get one scored attempt per puzzle. After you finish, you can see your result and that day’s leaderboard for the team. A franchise that didn’t exist yet in the day’s era shows as unavailable that day.
Around the League
Solve every team’s daily puzzle on the same day to make the Around the League board. It ranks finishers two ways: by order of completion, and by combined time, which is the sum of your scores across all the puzzles.
Tips
- The first clue does most of the work. A list of teams and years narrows things quickly, especially for players with short stints.
- Use the years to place him in baseball history before you think about names.
- The Daily Challenge is the same for everyone, so compare notes afterwards. The share button leaves the answer out.
Where the data comes from
Player stats and team histories come from the official MLB Stats API.