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REVIEW
Hockey Grid turns the Immaculate Grid format into a couch hockey quiz.
Omshy's NHL-themed take on the now-ubiquitous sports-trivia grid lands on LG webOS as a free, ad-supported TV game — limited in scope, sharp on premise.
BY THE APP COMRADE DESK · MAY 11, 2026 · 2 MIN READ
The Immaculate Grid format — six axis constraints, nine cells, one shared puzzle a day — escaped baseball years ago. There’s a football grid, a basketball grid, a soccer grid, a Premier League grid, an F1 grid. Hockey Grid is the NHL one, and on LG webOS it arrives as a free, ad-supported, single-mode TV port of the phone original. Omshy hasn’t reinvented anything, which is the point: the grid format barely needs a tutorial, and the appeal is whether you can name a Bruin who also wore a Coyotes sweater.
What makes the grid format work on a TV — and it does work — is that it’s legible at three metres, takes a minute of input, and lives or dies on the depth of the trivia. Hockey Grid passes the legibility test (large axis tiles, clear cell states) and clears the trivia bar with surprising range. The constraints reach further into NHL history than the phone-trivia genre usually bothers with, and rarity scoring gives the puzzle a second axis beyond simple correctness.
The TV-app shell is where the experience thins out. Magic Remote text entry works but feels half a step behind the phone build, and the lack of a past-grids archive on webOS is a small but real disappointment for a daily game. Free-tier ad density is the other friction. None of it breaks the core appeal, but it keeps Hockey Grid in solid-not-essential territory until the TV-specific polish catches up to the trivia design.
The grid format barely needs a tutorial; the appeal is whether you can name a Bruin who also wore a Coyotes sweater.
FEATURES
Hockey Grid is a 3x3 trivia grid in the style of Immaculate Grid (baseball) and its football, basketball, and soccer cousins — six axis categories, nine cells, and a single daily puzzle. Each row and column is a constraint (an NHL franchise, an award, a stat threshold, a country of birth), and each cell asks for a player whose career satisfies both intersecting constraints. Guess wrong and the cell locks; rarity scoring rewards picks fewer other players have used.
The webOS build runs the same daily puzzle as the mobile and web editions, navigated with the Magic Remote pointer or the directional pad. Input is a name-search field with autocomplete against a roster of historical NHL players. There's a daily-streak counter, a basic stats screen showing your average rarity score, and ad breaks between sessions on the free tier.
No login is required to play the daily; an optional account syncs streaks across devices. There is no archive of past grids, no multiplayer, and no league-specific variants beyond the single NHL grid.
MISSION ACCOMPLISHED
The format travels well to a TV. A grid is legible from across the room, the autocomplete reduces the typing burden that usually kills TV-app text entry, and the once-a-day cadence fits the rhythm of a living-room app better than most games do. Omshy clearly understood that the puzzle is the product — there's no skin system, no battle pass, no padding.
Trivia depth is the real win. The constraints rotate through obscurer cuts (journeyman defencemen, expansion-draft picks, single-season award winners) often enough that even committed hockey fans get challenged a few times a week. Rarity scoring gives the puzzle replay value beyond the binary right/wrong of most TV trivia apps.
ROOM TO IMPROVE
The TV-app shell is thin. Text entry via the Magic Remote works but feels slower than the mobile version, and the autocomplete dropdown sometimes hides behind the on-screen keyboard until you scroll. There is no past-grids archive on the webOS build — if you miss a day, the puzzle is gone, which is a real loss for a once-a-day game.
Ad density on the free tier is high relative to how long a single grid takes to play (a minute or two of input, then a 15-30 second ad). No paid tier removes ads on the LG version as of this writing. A couch-co-op mode where two players alternate cells would suit the TV context better than the strictly-solo design the app inherits from its phone roots.
CONCLUSION
Hockey Grid on LG webOS is the right install for NHL fans who want a low-commitment nightly puzzle on the TV instead of the phone. The format is proven, the trivia is genuinely good, and the once-a-day cadence respects your time. Watch for a past-grids archive and an ad-free tier; both would push this from "fun" into "regular rotation."