How to play GridClash Baseball
GridClash Baseball is a free MLB trivia game played on an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe board. Each square sits where two headings meet: two teams, or a team and a stat. Claim it by naming a player who fits both, like Babe Ruth for the New York Yankees and the Boston Red Sox.
The board
- 1. Fill a square.Name a player who fits its row and column.
- 2. Follow the board.Your square picks which small board the next answer goes on.
- 3. Get three in a row.Win three boards in a row, or any five.
- The board is nine small tic-tac-toe boards. Win a small board with three in a row or any five squares; win the game with three boards in a row or any five.
- Each player can be used only once per game.
- Two wrong guesses in a row on the same small board give a square to your opponent.
- The daily grid gives you five minutes; head to head is turn-based by link, with an optional shot clock.
MLB stat squares
Some headings are stats instead of teams. The grid picks from these:
- 30+ home runs in a season
- 100+ RBI in a season
- .300 average in a season (400+ at-bats)
- 30+ stolen bases in a season
- 20+ wins in a season
- 200+ strikeouts in a season
- 30+ saves in a season
- Won the World Series
- 2,000+ career hits
- 300+ career home runs
- 1,000+ career RBI
- 100+ career wins
- 1,000+ career strikeouts
- One team only
- 3+ teams
Questions
- What is GridClash?
- GridClash is a free sports trivia game played on an Ultimate Tic-Tac-Toe board: nine small tic-tac-toe boards inside one big one. Each square sits where a row heading and a column heading meet, and you claim it by naming a player who fits both.
- What counts as playing for a team?
- Any game for that team, regular season or playoffs. A season split between two teams counts for both. Teams that moved count for the team they became: the Brooklyn Dodgers count for Los Angeles, the New York Giants for San Francisco, the Montreal Expos for Washington and the Philadelphia and Kansas City Athletics for today's Athletics.
- How do stat squares work?
- A stat square pairs a team with an achievement. Season stats must happen in a season with that team; career totals and "one team only" or "3+ teams" are about the whole career. Winning the World Series means playing for that team in a season it won. Stats count the regular season only.
- When is there a new daily grid?
- Every day at 6 AM Eastern. You get five minutes to fill as many squares as you can, and every square has at least 10 correct answers.
- Can I see the answers?
- Yes, once a grid is over. Past grids with every square's most picked answers are at /answers, and finished games show every correct answer when you tap a square.
- Do I need an account?
- No. The daily grid, practice and head to head all work without one. An account keeps your stats, puts you on the leaderboard and works on every GridClash sport.
- Where does the player data come from?
- From the SABR Lahman Baseball Database, covering everyone who played from 1901 on.