How to Play Footbillion
A quick tactical breakdown of prompt mechanics, answer matching logic, and scoring £1bn squads.
1. The Objective
Every day at 00:00:00 UTC, seven new prompts appear on the pitch. Each prompt asks for a player, club, country, manager, or host city from football history. Your objective is to submit one valid answer per prompt, aiming for lesser-known "deep cuts" to amass a combined squad valuation of £1,000,000,000 (£1bn).
2. Valuation Tiers (£10m to £150m)
Unlike conventional trivia where all correct answers earn 1 point, Footbillion values answers inversely to prominence:
- £10m – £30m (Household Icons): Modern legends, tournament Golden Boot winners, and dominant champions (e.g., Messi, Zidane, Pelé, Real Madrid).
- £35m – £95m (Core Starters): Regular tournament starters, respected league stalwarts, and seasoned internationals.
- £100m – £150m (Deep Cuts): Reserve squad members, obscure host cities, or one-cap bench players that only football historians recall.
3. Answer Matching & Surnames
Our parser is forgiving with spelling:
- Accents & Diacritics: Ignored (e.g. "Pelé" = "Pele", "Müller" = "Muller").
- Club Prefixes: Common prefixes like "FC" or "AFC" are handled automatically ("AFC Bournemouth" = "Bournemouth").
- Surnames: When a surname is unique among valid answers for that prompt (e.g. "Messi" in Argentina 2022), it is accepted immediately. If multiple players share a surname, the system offers an autocomplete suggestion dropdown.
4. Tries & Lives
You receive 3 tries per prompt. An invalid submission deducts one life. If all 3 tries expire on a single prompt, that round ends with £0m, making the £1bn summit significantly harder to achieve!
5. Footbillion and Krillion
Football trivia enthusiasts often compare Footbillion with Krillion. Both games share the intellectual appeal of reverse-rarity valuation: rather than merely guessing any correct name, players are rewarded for recalling obscure squad members, historic bench options, and niche club veterans over obvious household superstars.
While Krillion pioneered early iterations of rarity scoring in the football community, Footbillion offers an independent, deterministic daily puzzle engine calibrated with 1,400+ curated prompts, seven tactical positions per pitch, an Unlimited Practice Mode, and verifiable valuation methodology.