Chessle — Daily chess puzzle
Can you find today's chess opening in six tries? Drag your moves, submit, learn from Wordle-style colour feedback. One position worldwide.
How to Play Chessle
Chessle is a daily chess puzzle dressed up like Wordle. You get a real position from the Lichess open puzzle database — checkmate-in-N, win material, or find the only defence — and 6 attempts to find the winning sequence. Drag your pieces on the board, then press Submit. Every move you played is graded with four colours: dark green (right piece on the right square), green (right piece, wrong square), tan (right square, wrong piece), grey (neither). The opponent answers between your moves — instantly with the canonical reply when you're on the line, or with a real chess-engine reply when you go astray. The position of the day is the same for every player worldwide; difficulty is Medium for everyone in Daily, with Easy and Hard tiers in Unlimited. Free, no account, no ads during play.
How Chessle works
Each puzzle starts from a real game. The setup move is played for you; you're now on move. The status line tells you whose turn it is and how many moves you have to play this attempt.
Drag a piece to its square — or tap to select, tap to move. The opponent answers between your moves: instantly with the canonical reply when you're on the line, or with a real chess-engine reply when you deviate.
Use Take back to undo any of your pending moves. When the move-pip row at the top is full, hit Submit. Every move in your attempt is graded at once.
Dark green = right piece on the right square. Light green = right piece, wrong square. Tan = right square, wrong piece. Grey = neither. The legend stays visible; use the colours to repair your line on the next attempt.
Find the puzzle's intended sequence within six attempts. Daily plays Medium for everyone — same position worldwide. Unlimited adds Easy and Hard tiers.
Every move you submit is graded against the puzzle's intended sequence. Same idea as Wordle's tiles, just per chess move — dark green is exact, light green and tan are partial credit, grey is neither. Use the colours to repair your line on the next attempt.
Tips & Strategy
Most puzzles fall into one of three buckets — checkmate-in-N, win material, or find the only defence. Look at material, king safety, and whose turn it is before you touch a piece. If white is up a piece and black to move, you're probably defending.
In that order. A move that gives check leaves the opponent very few legal replies, which is exactly what a puzzle wants. Walk every check, then every capture, then every direct threat — the right move is almost always one of them.
A puzzle isn't solved when you find your move — it's solved when you've checked the only sensible reply doesn't refute it. Submit only after you can name what the opponent plays back and see why your follow-up still works.
Dark green = exact ply. Light green = right piece, wrong square (you had the idea, just the wrong destination). Tan = right square, wrong piece (the square is the target, switch which piece arrives there). Grey = wrong on both axes. Most second-attempt solves come from acting on the tan signal.
If the puzzle says two moves, the answer is exactly two — not one and not three. A one-move mate doesn't appear in a two-move puzzle. Use the count to constrain your search: ‘what does my opponent play, and what's my second move that finishes it?'
Move pieces around freely while you're calculating — only Submit grades the attempt and burns one of your six tries. If the move-pip row at the top is full but you're not sure, take a piece back and try a different ordering.
More Game Modes
One word per day. 6 guesses. The classic.
2 boards, 1 keyboard, 7 guesses.
4 boards, 1 keyboard, 9 guesses.
8 boards, 1 keyboard, 13 guesses.
16 boards, 1 keyboard, 21 guesses.
32 boards, 1 keyboard, 37 guesses.
Race the clock. Solve as many words as you can before time runs out.
Navigate meaning space. 30 guesses.
Find the mystery country. 6 guesses on a paper globe.
Guess the daily math equation in 6 tries.
Find every word hidden in seven letters. New puzzle daily.
Swap the 21 tiles so every row and column spells a word. 15 swaps, par 10.
Trace hidden theme words on a 6×8 grid. New puzzle daily.
Trace adjacent letters to find every word in the grid.
Crown each region — one queen per row, column, and colored area.
Sixteen words, four hidden groups. Find what connects them.
Fill a 6x6 grid with suns and moons — balanced lines, never three in a row.
Read the clues, rule out the impossible, find the only grid that fits.
Lay every domino so each outlined region satisfies its rule.
Split the 6x6 grid into rectangles — one clue in each, matching its shape and size.
Trace four hidden words through a 5x5 grid
Draw one line through every cell — numbers in order, walls in the way.
Turn one word into another, changing a single letter at a time.
Fill a 6x6 grid so every row, column and 2x3 box holds 1 to 6 once.
A five by five crossword in your own language, every day.
The day’s letters, jumbled. Put the word back together in six tries.
Spell your way around the box and use all twelve letters.
Name the country from its flag. 6 guesses, one tile at a time.
Name the countries that link two places by land.
Name the country from its shape alone. 6 guesses.
A secret thing. Ask twenty yes-or-no questions and name it.
Think of anything. It asks up to twenty questions and tries to name it.
One letter, five categories, sixty seconds. A fair judge scores every answer.
You give the clues, the judge guesses. Lead it to your eight cards.
Guess what the crowd answered. Three strikes.
A spectrum and a target: name something that sits right there.
Play in 90+ Languages
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