Show HN: Matle – A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle
12 comments
·February 5, 2025ldb
Very nice idea. Reminds me a bit of https://www.chessguessr.com/.
dmonitor
Very cool idea, and very well implemented. My only feedback is that you should clarify whether the solution has to be a valid position that can be reached in a chess game.
stavros
It's really confusing to me that I drag a piece, I drop it on a square, it stays there, and there's an animation that the piece returns to the bottom. If it stays there, it shouldn't have a "returning" animation. Otherwise, it's an interesting puzzle.
dudefeliciano
Cool! not getting any response from the share result button on firefox (got it on the second try and wanted to brag a bit about it)
miningape
This is actually an interesting take on a chess puzzle, instead of calculate the winning sequence it's asking you to reconstruct it.
Very cool to have to think in the other direction to solve it.
Out_of_Characte
Managed to guess it on the first try after realising it looked like a real game. Bit sad to see only one puzzle per day.
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.
oyster143
Seems cool, reminds me of this video where top GMs guess the position without seeing the pieces. Some can even name players and the date of the game.
axus
Worked pretty well. It was nice that it told me "this is not a mate", I'd have burned through all my tries without that guardrail.
maaaaattttt
At first I thought it would be the typical chess exercise question, just that everybody gets the same one each day, but I like the approach you have. Makes one think differently than usual.
egglemonsoup
Looks really cool, although way beyond my chess ability. Nice work
ajkjk
at least on the first one there was really only one way it could have happened under reasonable assumptions (mainly, that the white queen had just been taken). I'm not sure it works very well for the Wordle format, although it is fun as a puzzle otherwise.
shirol
That's quite challenging for a first puzzle, though it is a well-known mate. Guessed in 3 tries
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
[1] http://www.matle.io/