About Chainle

Chainle is a small, independent daily word game. The idea is deliberately narrow: two clue words, one answer that belongs to both, five rounds a day. There is no letter grid, no timer and no server-side account. Everything you need to play is on one page, and everything the game remembers about you stays in your browser.

We built Chainle because the daily-puzzle format works best when the challenge is meaning rather than spelling. Guessing letters tests recall; asking what two unrelated words have in common tests something closer to creativity. The scoring model makes that concrete: a guess is measured against both clues at once, and the weaker match dominates, so the only way to score well is to find a genuinely central idea.

Puzzles are written in advance and checked by hand. Each round carries a canonical answer, a short list of accepted synonyms, an explanation of why the word fits, and three graded hints. A validation script refuses to publish a puzzle with a missing hint, a duplicate answer, or a round whose explanation is too thin. Answer pages are published at the same moment the puzzle goes live, because hiding solutions behind a click is hostile to the people searching for them.

Chainle is free and does not ask you to register. The site is supported by advertising when ads are enabled, and the privacy page explains exactly what that means for your data. If something looks wrong — a puzzle that does not work, an answer you think is unfair, or a bug in the score — email us; corrections are welcome and occasionally necessary.