BBC Sport runs daily football quizzes in three formats — SkimNews
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- BBC Sport runs a daily football quiz round built around three formats — Who Am I?, Five in Five, and a Brainteaser — published on its quizzes hub.
- Today's Who Am I? puzzle challenges players to identify a mystery footballer in as few guesses as possible, unlocking a new clue after each wrong attempt.
- The Five in Five quiz requires players to deliver five correct answers inside a five-minute window.
- Brainteaser is billed as "fiendishly difficult" and gives players five lives before today's answer is revealed.
- The day's quizzes were written by Joe Rindl and BBC Sport user Matt Sims, both credited as being based in London.
- BBC Sport invites readers to sign up for notifications so the latest quizzes are sent straight to their device, with linked Football Quizzes and Sports Quizzes pages for additional content.
Why it matters: For BBC Sport, the daily quiz format is a recurring engagement hook that funnels casual football fans to its quizzes hub and sports coverage. The tiered difficulty — from a guess-the-player warm-up to a five-life Brainteaser — rewards return visits, while the notification opt-in converts episodic readers into push-channel subscribers.
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