THE NAME GAME

// ATHLETE RELAY · 45s CLOCK

How it works: the first player gets a random letter and must name an athlete whose first name starts with it. Every player after that has a set amount of time (default 30 seconds, adjustable below) to name an athlete whose first name starts with the first letter of the previous athlete's last name. Miss the clock, repeat a name, or pass, and you're out. Last lane standing wins. Pick a sport mode below to check names against a real roster live, or leave it on "Any sport" to play on the honor system.

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30 seconds per turn
10s60s
Names get checked live against real rosters, with typo-tolerant matching for small misspellings. "Any sport" checks all leagues one at a time and stops at the first match — it's more likely to hit the shared 5-requests/minute limit than a single-league mode, since a wrong or obscure guess has to strike out across every league before it's rejected.