WARNING: THERE ARE PUCKDOKU SPOILERS AHEAD. DO NOT CONTINUE SCROLLING IF YOU DON’T WANT TODAY’S PUZZLE SPOILED FOR YOU.
The new game “Pucudoku” 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.
Canadiens/Wild: He was on the losing end of both the 2021 and 2023 Cup finals
Lightning/Wild: He won three Stanley Cups in a row from 2019-2021
Penguins/Wild: He’s a goaltender who was picked first overall in his draft year
Canadiens/Devils: He’s a six-time 20-goal scorer and has been in the league since 2012-13
Lightning/Devils: Once made up the Lightning’s “triplets” line with Nikita Kucherov and Tyler Johnson
Penguins/Devils: He makes an appearance in quite literally every one of these pieces I do
Canadiens/40+ assists single season: His brother spent 15 years in the NHL, mostly with the Minnesota Wild
Lightning/40+ assists single season: He’s a member of the aforementioned Triplets line
Penguins/40+ assists single season: He was the greatest player in the NHL between 2005-2015
The most popular answers to today’s Puckdoku puzzle are below this picture of referees. Don’t scroll if you don’t want spoilers!
Canadiens/Wild: Eric Staal
Lightning/Wild: Pat Maroon
Penguins/Wild: Marc-Andre Fleury
Canadiens/Devils: Tomas Tatar
Lightning/Devils: Ondrej Palat
Penguins/Devils: Jaromir Jagr
Canadiens/40+ assists single season: Saku Koivu
Lightning/40+ assists single season: Nikita Kucherov
Penguins/40+ assists single season: Sidney Crosby
