Chainle. Find the connection.
Find one word that connects every clue.
Five rounds. One very satisfying aha.
Find the missing link.
One word that connects both clues. What comes to mind?
Three steps to Chainle.
No instructions manual required. Just a curious mind.
Read the room.
Two words, three words, or a single word. Each round gives your brain a different little challenge.
Find your thread.
Find a word that brings the clues together. A shared meaning, a familiar phrase, an unexpected link.
Enjoy the aha.
Get up to 1,000 points a round. Finish all five, share your score, and make it a daily ritual.
Your daily Chainle
aha moment.
Chainle is a daily word association game about the space between words. Find a shared meaning, spot an unexpected connection, and see a familiar word in a whole new way.
Enjoy Wordle, Connections, or semantic word games? Chainle offers a different kind of daily brain break. Five rounds, a fresh perspective, and something worth sharing.
A few hints for the curiousWhat is Chainle?
Chainle is a daily word association puzzle. You look for a word that connects two or three clues, or a close match for a single clue. This independent edition offers five-round challenges and a practice mode.
How are answers scored here?
This edition uses real GloVe word vectors and a general English vocabulary. Similarity to every clue is combined with a harmonic mean and scaled against the strongest vocabulary link. Scores are independent of chainle.io.
When does the daily puzzle reset?
The daily challenge changes at midnight in America/New_York, including daylight saving time. Everyone using this edition sees the same daily set.
Play Chainle. Learn the connections.
Play Chainle first. Open a guide when you need one.
Chainle is a daily word association puzzle about finding a word that fits more than one clue. Our Chainle edition combines three double links, one triple link, and one closest match. You get one accepted guess per round, with up to 1,000 points each. There is no timer, no account, and no need to install an app.
New to Chainle? Start with the rules and a worked example. Stuck on a connection? Explore meanings, common phrases, and shared properties. Curious about your score? Our Chainle scoring guide explains the vocabulary and word-vector scoring and how this edition differs from the original game.
Looking for the original? Chainle.io has its own daily puzzles and semantic scoring. This site is an independent edition with an expanded, validated clue bank.