What is Tipoff?
Tipoff is a free daily sports photo game. Each day presents three famous sports photographs that are identical for every player. For each photo you identify the location, the year, and the person or team shown in the image.
How to play Tipoff
- Open the daily set of three photos.
- For location, drop a pin on the map. Landing exactly on the stadium scores the full 400 points; any correct country still earns 150 or more, with higher scores for closer placements.
- For the year, slide the control to the estimated date. Near misses still receive points, and older photographs allow a wider margin of error.
- For the subject, type the name of the player, coach, or team. If no individual is widely known, name the team.
- Submit each answer. Every photo is worth up to 1,000 points (400 location + 400 year + 200 subject).
- Review the score breakdown and any source credits, then move to the next photo.
- After all three photos, check your total and optional streak. A new set appears every midnight Eastern Time.
Scoring and feedback
Each photo awards a maximum of 1,000 points. Exact stadium placement yields the full location total; proximity within the correct country still produces a solid base score. Year accuracy follows a sliding scale that widens for earlier decades. Subject identification contributes the remaining 200 points. Results appear with short labels such as hole-in-one, buzzer-beater, home run, first down, foul ball, or airball according to overall precision. Photographs are drawn from public-domain or openly licensed sources; credits display after each round.
Sports coverage and modes
The collection spans basketball, American football, baseball, soccer, tennis, boxing, hockey, golf, track and field, Olympic events, racing, and additional disciplines. Images range from the 1890s to the present and include college, professional, and international moments. Daily Tipoff uses the same three photos for everyone. An archive lets players revisit earlier days. Real Ball Knowers mode supplies unlimited practice rounds built from older, less familiar material.
Groups and comparison
Create a free account to form a private group and share an invite link. Daily scores from all members appear together for direct comparison. A global leaderboard ranks players across the full community. The game runs in any modern browser on phone or computer with no download required.