Stumped is a set of free daily WNBA games you play right in your browser — no account, no download. Here is how each one works, and how to get good at it.
Decipher is a guess-the-player game, and the daily headliner. You are given a mystery player's real per-game averages and a blacked-out silhouette, and you have six guesses to name her.
Every guess must be a real WNBA player, and each one you submit is compared against the answer across six attributes — conference, position, height, jersey number, draft year and college. A green match means you nailed that attribute; amber means you are close; and arrows point you toward the answer on the numeric fields. A wrong guess that is not a valid player does not cost you a turn.
Use the comparisons to triangulate. One guess can tell you the conference, rule out a position, and put you in the right draft era — turning a blind guess into a short list.
Pace is a higher-or-lower streak game you can play anytime. You are shown two players and one stat; your job is to say whether the second player lands higher or lower than the first. Keep guessing correctly to build a streak.
There are two modes. This Season compares each player's projected season total in a stat — points, rebounds, assists or threes — using our own projection model. Career compares all-time career totals across current and former players, over a wider set of stats including steals, blocks, games and minutes.
The projected numbers are not just today's averages — they account for recent form, workload and injuries. If you want to know how a projection is built, see How the projections work. Injury status is shown on the card, which is often the tell on a close call.
The grouping puzzle gives you 16 tiles hiding four groups of four that share a category — players on the same team, holders of a particular record, members of a draft class, and so on. Pick the four you think belong together and hit Submit; guess wrong and you take a mistake, and four mistakes ends the game. It is no longer a daily, but every past board stays playable anytime in the archive.
The challenge is rarely the category itself — it is the overlaps. Start with the group you are most certain of, ask what each tile could also belong to before submitting, and solve the last group by elimination. For the full breakdown, see how to solve the puzzle.
Your Pace best streak, and your grouping-puzzle history and streak, are saved in your browser's local storage — never on our servers. When you finish, share your result: Pace and Decipher make a spoiler-free result card, and the grouping puzzle makes a spoiler-free emoji grid. Tag it with #StumpedWNBA.