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.
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.
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.
I think this is cool, but you should eliminate the possibility for squares to be empty. This is already significantly harder than Wordle because almost nobody is going to know the positions of games by heart (so you have to randomly guess in many cases). The possibility of blank spaces is just cruel to add on top of that inherent difficulty.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Todays matle.io had a few positions that were inconsequential to the mate itself and could be a lot of pieces other than the solution that could be reached through normal game so it's pretty much a guessing game.
