Matle[1], a daily puzzle game that combines chess and Wordle mechanics. You have to guess a hidden checkmate. How it works: 1. You’re given a board with five hidden squares. 2. Guess the pieces in those squares. 3. You must form a checkmate! Hints work like Wordle: Correct piece & position Correct piece, wrong position ⬜ Wrong piece |
IMO those should count as guesses.
I felt like an imposter getting the praise "Wow, you're fast!" and "only two guesses!" when I'd actually submitted 4 guesses... just that two were so bad that the game rejected them outright. lol.
Sharing the result also reveils the solution in copied text, maybe remove that so someone could share the exact puzzle without immediatly seeing the solution.
Very cool to have to think in the other direction to solve it.
- not every square with a ? needs to be filled
- a piece that's marked as yellow or green may appear more than once (if that's legal)
- you can see your previous guesses by clicking on the guess history squares
- the game shows you pieces that have been eliminated based on their background colour in the pieces list under the board
But I think that's probably true of a lot of chess sites. I sort of feel like sites should have a way of flagging themselves as already in dark mode, so that they can be ignored by any dark mode extensions.
Here is mine: https://www.solitairle.com/
And the first one presented to me, I’m pretty sure it is unsolvable. I can’t even find a valid first move.
And it doesn't play like normal solitaire. You can move any card, no matter what's on top of it. That makes it much easier.