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#ladder-team-ties
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One bookmark starts a Team Ties Ladder — a run of escalating rounds where the clubs get harder to tie together as you climb. Pin an obscurity band in the URL, or leave it off for All-teams. Keep answering correctly to build the longest streak you can. Sign-in required, so your run is ranked.

Pattern

/games/team-ties?obscurity=<all|well_known|mixed|obscure|virtually_unknown>#ladder-team-ties

The obscurity param goes before the hash. Leave it off for an All-teams climb:

/games/team-ties#ladder-team-ties
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Or climb a ladder of obscure clubs:

/games/team-ties?obscurity=OBSCURE#ladder-team-ties
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Parameters

obscurityWELL_KNOWN · ALL (default) · MIXED · OBSCURE · VIRTUALLY_UNKNOWN

How famous the clubs are across the whole run. The Ladder sets the club count itself (it escalates as you climb), so there's no clubs param here.

An unknown or missing value falls back to All-teams — a malformed link still starts a ladder.

Behavior

  • On page load the hash is read once and cleared via history.replaceState — refreshing doesn't re-trigger the start.
  • The ladder escalates as you climb — later rounds tie together more clubs.
  • Sign-in is required. If you're signed out, the link sends you to sign in first and resumes the ladder afterwards.

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