The arcade
Games like Chainle, built here.
Most pages like this one send you off to play somewhere else. These four are built here, on the same data as the daily chain: one puzzle a day, the same for everyone, no account, nothing to download.
Five
2–4 minA hidden five-letter word and six tries. Green means the right letter in the right place.
Fours
4–7 minSort sixteen words into four groups of four, with four mistakes to spend.
Nearest
3–8 minGuess a word; the game tells you how close it is in meaning to the one it is hiding.
Ladder
3–6 minTurn the first word into the last, changing one letter per rung.
Why build them instead of linking them
The usual shape of a page like this is a list of other people’s games and a row of links out. It ranks, it costs nothing, and it leaves the reader somewhere else.
These four exist because the mechanics behind them are small enough to build properly — a five-letter word with six guesses, sixteen words in four groups, a hidden word ranked by meaning, and a ladder of words one letter apart. Each one takes the same two minutes as a round of the daily chain, and each one keeps its own puzzle for the day.
The words are ours, the rankings are computed for this site, and the scores are what the rules say they are. That is the whole argument: a game you host is a game you can be honest about.