Football Pyramid — rank the ten players
Every day a ranking category — most club goals, most international caps — and ten players to place in a pyramid of four tiers: the top is the highest number, the base the lowest. Players appear one at a time; you tap the tier where you think each one belongs, and then you can swap two of them as many times as you like. There is no dragging — tapping is the only way, on purpose. Order within a tier does not matter. Free, no sign-up, in English, Portuguese and Spanish.
How to play Football Pyramid
Football Pyramid is the daily ordering game: ten players, one
ranking category, and a pyramid of four layers — 1, 2, 3 and 4 slots, top to
base. The top is the highest number.
How it is played, without dragging
- One player at a time. Tap the layer where you think he belongs.
- With all ten placed, swap. Tap one player and then another: they change
places. As many times as you want.
- Check. The game reveals the numbers and counts how many landed in the right
layer.
There is no dragging in this game, and that is deliberate: on a phone, dragging
is the hardest gesture to get right — small target, scrolling competing — and the worst to make
accessible. Tapping works for everyone, keyboard and screen reader included.
A layer is a band
Inside a layer, order does not matter: the two in the second layer count in
either order. That is not generosity — it is what stops the game from charging you for an order a
tie would make arbitrary.
And when a tie would cross the border between two layers — third and fourth with the same number
— the category does not enter the calendar. You would land in the wrong layer by
chance, and that is not a game.
Three strategies that work
- Place the extremes first. The one you are sure is the highest takes the top,
and the rest organises around it.
- Use the base as a parking spot. It has four slots: when in doubt, put him
there and swap later.
- Think about long careers. In appearance categories, twenty years of football
climbs; in goal categories, the striker.
Frequently asked questions
When does the pyramid change?
At midnight, in your device's local time. Everyone plays the same pyramid on the same
day.
Is my progress saved?
It is, in your own browser — including a pyramid you started — and separate from the other
games.
Is there another game with these numbers?
There is: Football Top 10, which uses the same categories and asks
who is on the list instead of in what order.