Immaculate Grid is a popular daily baseball trivia game that challenges fans to name players who fit specific criteria arranged in a 5x5 grid. Each square contains a prompt (team, season, stat, position, or other constraint); your task is to fill every square with a player who satisfies both the row and column clues. The aim is to complete the grid with as few incorrect guesses as possible — perfect (zero wrong guesses) completions are rare and celebrated.

Key features

Grid format: typically 5x5 with intersecting row and column prompts so one answer satisfies two clues.

Prompts: can be teams (e.g., “Yankees”), seasons (e.g., “2016”), stats (e.g., “20+ HR”), positions, award winners, or broader constraints (e.g., “played for both teams”).

Daily puzzles: a new grid is published each day; multiple themed variants exist (MLB.com, Sports Reference–powered, third-party sites).

Scoring: based on number of wrong guesses; leaderboards and shareable results are common.

Accessibility: ranges from very easy (common stars) to extremely obscure prompts; strategy involves leveraging intersections to deduce answers.

Why fans like it

Combines baseball knowledge, research, and logic.

Social and competitive: players share results and compare streaks.

Educational: introduces fans to less-known players and historical facts.

Where to play

Official MLB Immaculate Grid page and Baseball-Reference/Sports Reference versions.

Third-party sites and clones offer variations and archived grids.

Tips and strategies

Start with intersecting cells where prompts narrow possibilities (e.g., a specific season + team).

Use well-known players for broad prompts; reserve obscure guesses for tightly constrained intersections.

Work systematically across rows/columns and update possibilities as you confirm answers.

When stuck, think of utility players, bench/role players, or common journeymen who meet multi-team/time constraints.

Community and culture

Emerged into mainstream baseball culture around 2023 and has been covered by outlets and fandoms; players from casual fans to managers have been known to play and share results.

Fans post favorite grids, strategies, and memorable perfect runs.