URL HOOK

Single Player

#single-team-ties
Open to everyone

One bookmark drops you into a single Team Ties round — a set of 2 to 4 club crests, and your job is to name a footballer who played for every one of them. Pin the obscurity band and how many clubs in the URL, or leave them off for All-teams with a random 2–4 clubs. Open to everyone; guests can play, their results just aren't ranked.

Pattern

/games/team-ties?obscurity=<all|well_known|mixed|obscure|virtually_unknown>&clubs=<random|2|3|4>#single-team-ties

Params go before the hash. Leave them off for a quick All-teams, random-clubs game:

/games/team-ties#single-team-ties
Open

Or pin a tougher combo:

/games/team-ties?obscurity=OBSCURE&clubs=3#single-team-ties
Open

More combinations

Mix any obscurity band with any club count — a few handy ones:

Famous clubs only, gentle 2-club ties
/games/team-ties?obscurity=WELL_KNOWN&clubs=2#single-team-ties
Open
A famous club paired with a hidden one
/games/team-ties?obscurity=MIXED#single-team-ties
Open
Diehard mode — virtually unknown, 4 clubs
/games/team-ties?obscurity=VIRTUALLY_UNKNOWN&clubs=4#single-team-ties
Open

Parameters

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

How famous the clubs are. Famous bands give more possible answers; obscure bands are for the diehards.

clubsRANDOM (default) · 2 · 3 · 4

How many club crests to tie together each round. “random” picks a fresh 2–4.

Unknown or missing values fall back to the defaults — a malformed link still starts a game.

Behavior

  • On page load the hash is read once and cleared via history.replaceState — refreshing doesn't re-trigger the start.
  • Every round has at least one footballer common to all the shown clubs — rarer ties and more clubs are worth more points.
  • Guests can play Single Player with any obscurity or club count; their results aren't ranked.
  • Prefer clicking? The in-page setup on the /games/team-ties hub has the same options — the hook is the bookmarkable shortcut.

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