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Show HN: Matle - A Daily Chess Puzzle Inspired by Wordle
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/
Author : m88m
Score : 67 points
Date : 2025-02-05 14:37 UTC (8 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.matle.io)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.matle.io)
| shirol wrote:
| That's quite challenging for a first puzzle, though it is a well-
| known mate. Guessed in 3 tries
| egglemonsoup wrote:
| Looks really cool, although way beyond my chess ability. Nice
| work
| oyster143 wrote:
| 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.
|
| https://youtu.be/_Ntn4jEv7rE?feature=shared
| maaaaattttt wrote:
| 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.
| stavros wrote:
| 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.
| Out_of_Characte wrote:
| 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.
| ajkjk wrote:
| 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.
| axus wrote:
| 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.
| miningape wrote:
| 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.
| dmonitor wrote:
| 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.
| dudefeliciano wrote:
| 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)
| ldb wrote:
| Very nice idea. Reminds me a bit of https://www.chessguessr.com/.
| monroewalker wrote:
| Nice! Will be trying this over the next few days
| Vincenius wrote:
| A fun idea and great execution. Looking forward to tomorrow's
| puzzle
| littlestymaar wrote:
| The experiment is cool, but after this first attempt I wonder if
| it's not going to be too easy to guess in just one try lots of
| times.
| lReficul wrote:
| There should be colorblind options. Makes the puzzle quite
| challenging.
| raymond_goo wrote:
| Nice idea!
|
| Here is mine: https://www.solitairle.com/
| charlieyu1 wrote:
| I tried this, but it doesn't seem to work in mobile.
|
| And the first one presented to me, I'm pretty sure it is
| unsolvable. I can't even find a valid first move.
| Silphendio wrote:
| It does work on mobile,but the instructions are cut off.
|
| 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.
| charlieyu1 wrote:
| I like this! Very creative tool to learn chess mating patterns
| h-c-c wrote:
| Fun puzzle! Fyi, does not play well with Brave - experimantal
| dark mode.
|
| 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.
| neuronflux wrote:
| I think that this solution is a bit backwards. I think it
| should be on the extension to detect if the site is already
| "dark".
| h-c-c wrote:
| Also, it wasn't immediately obvious that you only get the
| feedback after a valid checkmate.
| pranshuchittora wrote:
| Sorry to say, but this is very unintuitive and hard.
| inanutshellus wrote:
| I guess I was a bit flippant about my guesses and realized I made
| two guesses that were invalid because they weren't actually
| checkmates.
|
| 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.
| prettyblocks wrote:
| I really liked it. I found it to be quite difficult, but somehow
| managed to solve the problem in 4 tries. At first I didn't quite
| realize that you can put opposing pieces on the board so I think
| I wasted one or two turns. In general, love the concept and
| execution, but seems like it might have a pretty narrow audience
| of chess enthusiasts.
| voisin wrote:
| Incredible. Loved it!
| jmpavlec wrote:
| Loved it! I'm so so at chess but was able to get it in 3 tries.
| Nice execution with the UI.
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