About
A small daily game, made carefully
Chainle Today is one daily word chain: five rounds, one word in the middle of each, a score out of 5,000. It exists because the shape of the game — one shared puzzle, one number, no account — is the best thing the internet has invented for a morning in a long time, and because a word game should be quiet.
There is no timer, no streak guilt, and no sign-up. Progress is saved in your browser. The archive keeps every past puzzle playable forever. Nothing about the daily board is randomised: everyone who opens it on the same day gets the same five rounds.
How the scoring was built
Every clue is compared with your word on its own, and the comparison is measured against the strongest link the round was built around. The clues are then combined so that a word which misses one clue completely cannot be rescued by the other. Answers the numbers underrate are given credit by hand, and each round is read through before it ships.
What it is not
It is not affiliated with chainle.io, with Wordle or The New York Times, or with any game listed on the alternatives page. Those games are linked because they are good, not because anyone asked us to.
Run it, break it, tell us
If a round feels unfair, a word is missing, or the board does something odd on your phone, that is worth an email. A word game lives or dies on the words it accepts.