The club
About Footbillion
A daily football quiz built around one idea: the forgotten name is worth more than the famous one. Seven clues a day, written and checked by hand.
What this is
Footbillion publishes one set of seven football questions per day. You type the answers, the server grades them, and the score stays in your browser. That is the whole product. There is no feed, no comment section and no ranking of other players.
The name comes from the scoring idea: a rare answer is worth more than an obvious one. A clue that almost anybody can answer is a tap-in. A clue that needs a real memory is a shot from distance.
How the questions are made
Every clue is written to have one defensible answer, then checked against a published record before it ships. Nothing is generated by pattern and shipped blind. Where a fact is contested — and in football plenty are — the question is rewritten or dropped rather than solved with a loose key.
An alias list is attached by hand for names with common alternate spellings and for clubs usually written with a suffix. That list is deliberately short: it exists to stop a correct answer being marked wrong, not to accept near-misses.
Every accepted answer also carries a rarity tier, set by an editor before the set is frozen. A clue cannot be scheduled until each answer on its list has a rating: the build refuses to read a missing rating as zero points, and it refuses to invent one. A set that has no Legendary answer is rejected too, because a 700-point total has to be reachable.
What the site refuses to do
- Put answers in the page, in the bundle or in the network response.
- Hint after a miss, or offer a “close enough” verdict.
- Ask for an email address to show a score.
- Run ads or tracking scripts against the game.
Rhythm
A new set appears at midnight in New York (2026-11-14 is the current set date). The address never changes, so a bookmark is enough. The daily set is fixed at seven questions and 700 points; everything beyond that lives in unlimited play.
Faults
A question with two good answers is a fault, and faults get fixed in public on the corrections page. If a clue is ambiguous, it is replaced rather than patched with a longer alias list.