MLB Grid
Grid
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How to play
Every square wants a player who satisfies both its row and its column. You get nine outs, and a guess spends one whether it lands or not — so an uncertain pick is a real decision. Your result reads as a batting line.
Nine squares, each wanting a player who satisfies both its row and its column. Your result reads as a batting line.
9 outs left
0 for 9
San Francisco Giants
Boston Red Sox
Detroit Tigers
Pittsburgh Pirates
Cleveland GuardiansHow to play MLB Grid
Nine squares, three row categories and three column categories. Each square wants a player who satisfies both the row and the column — a club and a club, or a club and an achievement like an MVP, a Gold Glove or 500 home runs. You get nine outs, and a guess spends one whether it lands or not, so an uncertain pick genuinely costs you. Your result reads as a batting line: seven for nine. Each square also shows how unusual your answer was once it lands.
Strategy & tips
- Fill the hardest square first. Your best answer for a tough intersection is often the only one you have, and spending it on an easy square wastes it.
- Journeymen beat superstars. A man who played for six clubs can fill six different squares; a one-club legend fills one.
- Think about the eras the two categories share. A club that folded in 1960 and an award that started in 1957 leave a three-year window.
- A rare correct answer scores better than an obvious one, so if you have two players who fit, play the one nobody else would think of.
About MLB Grid
The grid format is the most demanding thing on the site because it asks for the intersection of two facts rather than either one. Rows are always clubs, which puts the deepest part of the database on the axis; columns mix clubs and achievements so a board is never nine variations of the same question. A grid made only of club-against-club cells degenerates into naming journeymen, so every board carries at least one achievement column. Two categories that cannot sensibly share a square never appear together either: the same club twice asks who played for the Cubs and the Cubs, and a 500-homer column beside a 300-homer one is the stricter of the two wearing a disguise.
Frequently asked questions
Does a wrong guess cost me?
Yes. Every guess spends one of your nine outs whether it lands or not, which is what makes an uncertain pick a real decision rather than a free swing. Nine outs against nine squares means a perfect board needs a perfect record.
Can I use the same player twice?
No. Each player claims one square, which is why the order you answer in matters as much as what you know — spending a six-club journeyman on an easy intersection leaves you nothing for the hard one.
What does the percentage on a solved square mean?
How unusual your answer was among the players who could have filled that square. A lower number means fewer people would have thought of him.
Statistics come from Major League Baseball and cover every player since 1871, including the Negro Leagues, which MLB recognised as major leagues in 2020.