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. There’s a specific theme to this one, see if you can figure it out.
Canucks/Coyotes: Player was drafted sixth overall in 2009
Maple Leafs/Coyotes: Player is a three-time Stanley Cup winner
LightningCoyotes: Player won a Cup with the Lightning in 2004
Canucks/Predators: Player was drafted 12th overall by the Predators
Maple Leafs/Predators: Player had stops with the Calgary Flames and Seattle Kraken between these two teams
Lightning/Predators: Player appeared in games for both of these teams in 2022-23
Canucks/played with Luke Schenn: Player has hit the 60-point mark in four of his five seasons so far
Maple Leafs/played with Luke Schenn: Player scored 60 goals
Lightning/played with Luke Schenn: Player recently expressed frustration over lack of contract talks
The most popular answers to today’s Puckdoku puzzle are below this picture of referees. Don’t scroll if you don’t want spoilers!
Canucks/Coyotes: Oliver Ekman-Larsson
Maple Leafs/Coyotes: Phil Kessel
Lightning/Coyotes: Nikolai Khabibulin
Canucks/Predators: Dan Hamhuis
Maple Leafs/Predators: Calle Jarnkrok
Lightning/Predators: Tanner Jeannot
Canucks/played with Luke Schenn: Elias Pettersson
Maple Leafs/played with Luke Schenn: Auston Matthews
Lightning/played with Luke Schenn: Steven Stamkos
