WARNING: THERE ARE PUCKDOKU SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT CONTINUE SCROLLING IF YOU DON’T WANT TODAY’S PUZZLE SPOILED FOR YOU.
The new game “Puckdoku” is taking the hockey world by storm. Here’s how it works. There’s a 3×3 grid, and each row and column are marked with either a team or a statistic of some sort. You have to guess players who meet the criteria for both the column and the row for the square you’re on. For example…if your square is in the Toronto Maple Leafs’ column and the St. Louis Blue row…Ryan O’Reilly would work. If it’s in the Washington Capitals column and the row says “40+ goals in a season”, Alex Ovechkin would work. You can play the daily Puckdoku puzzle here:
There’s also a rarity score in the form of a percentage next to the player you guess…the lower the percentage, the more rare the guess. Once you start getting used to the game, you want to shoot for a low rarity score.
Without further ado, here are some hints for today’s Puckdoku puzzle. You can play the game for yourself here.
Maple Leafs/Jets: He’s one of the highest-scoring Finnish players of all time
Rangers/Jets: He was a top ten pick when drafted
Lightning/Jets: He was drafted third overall by the Atlanta Thrashers
Maple Leafs/Red Wings: His uncle was one of the best power forwards in the league in his day
Rangers/Red Wings: He’s currently the President of an NHL team
Lightning/Red Wings: He was on the Red Wings’ Cup-winning roster in 2008
Maple Leafs/One team whole career: He scored four goals in his NHL debut
Rangers/One team whole career: He was drafted first overall by the franchise
Lightning/One team whole career: He’s scored 60 goals before
The most popular answers to today’s Puckdoku puzzle are below this picture of referees. Don’t scroll if you don’t want spoilers!
Maple Leafs/Jets: Olli Jokinen
Rangers/Jets: Jacob Trouba
Lightning/Jets: Zach Bogosian
Maple Leafs/Red Wings: Tyler Bertuzzi
Rangers/Red Wings: Brendan Shanahan
Lightning/Red Wings: Valtteri Filppula
Maple Leafs/One team whole career: Auston Matthews
Rangers/One team whole career: Alexis Lafreniere
Lightning/One team whole career: Steven Stamkos
