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The idea. Four quick rounds a day and a bonus question, the same for everyone, each round a different little NBA game worth 100.

Mystery player. A player's photo starts as a blur of big squares and sharpens a little every second, 30 steps in all. Name them from four: right away is worth 100, sliding to 25 once the photo is sharp. A wrong guess costs 20.

Fast break. Five teams stay on the board while ten players come up one at a time, six seconds each. Tap a team the player played for. Some played for two of the five, and either counts. Each right answer is worth 10; a wrong team or running out of time is worth nothing.

Missing starter. "2018-19 Houston Rockets: Chris Paul, Eric Gordon, James Harden, Clint Capela and ?" Who was the fifth starter? Two lineups, 50 each.

Match up. Five teams as cards, and five players as cards below them, dealt in the same order for everyone. Each player played for exactly one of the five teams (their whole career is in the data). Drag a player onto another card, or tap two, to swap them. A card that lands under the right team gets a green tick at once, and the round ends the moment all five are right. 100 points at par, which is the fewest swaps; each extra move costs 12. The 💡 locks one right pair for 20 points.

Bonus question. One more, from the record books: a champion, a scoring leader, a team's top scorer, how many teams someone played for. A right answer is worth 25 on top; a wrong one costs nothing.

Scoring. A day is 400 for the four rounds plus up to 25 for the bonus. Later rounds use players and teams that are harder to know.

Sound. Taps and solved rounds make sounds. The 🔊 button at the top turns them off and on for every IT Games game on this device.

Every game since 2000-01 comes from balldontlie. Teammates are players who each played 20 games for the same team in the same season.