Bazaar Doku: daily video games game

Bazaar Doku is a daily nine-box logic puzzle for fans of The Bazaar, the hero-builder auto-battler from the studio Tempo. Every row and every column carries its own clue, and each box you fill needs an item or skill that satisfies both at once. It is less a guessing game than a fast daily test of how well you know The Bazaar's deep catalog of items, tags, and card text.

What is Bazaar Doku?

Bazaar Doku is a daily logic puzzle built around The Bazaar, the asynchronous hero-builder auto-battler from the studio Tempo. Instead of numbers in a Sudoku grid, you place items and skills from The Bazaar into a three-by-three set of boxes. Each row carries its own clue and each column carries its own clue, so every box you fill has two conditions stacked on it at once. An answer only counts if it satisfies both the row clue and the column clue that meet at that box. The grid is small, but the knowledge it asks for is broad, since you are pulling from a roster of over a thousand items plus hundreds of skills across heroes like Vanessa, Pygmalien, Dooley, Mak, and Stelle.

The puzzle is hosted on Bazaar DB, a community database site for The Bazaar at bazaardb.gg, and it lives at the /doku path. That origin matters, because the clues are drawn from real game data: item names, types, tags, and card text. According to the site's own rules, every box has at least two valid answers, which means there is rarely a single forced solution. You get room to choose, and that choice is where the strategy lives. One rule shapes everything else: each answer can only be used once across the whole grid. Spend a flexible, well-known item early and you may find yourself stuck at a box where it was the only piece you could remember.

Bazaar Doku also handles clues in a way that rewards players who actually read cards in The Bazaar. Tag clues do not just match an item's formal category; they also accept any card whose text contains the clue word. The site notes a further wrinkle: for tags that also have a -Reference tag, both versions are accepted. Those details quietly widen or narrow the answer pool depending on how the clue is phrased, and noticing them is part of getting good at the puzzle. Your progress on the day's official puzzle is saved automatically, so you can step away and finish later. The site also offers random puzzles for extra practice, though those random runs are not saved the way the daily one is.

The vibe is closer to a knowledge test than a guessing game. There is no hidden word to deduce from color feedback the way Wordle works; instead you are recalling and cross-referencing the game's content under two overlapping constraints. That makes it most satisfying for people who already play The Bazaar or follow it closely, since fluency with item names and tags is the real skill being measured. Newcomers can still enjoy it with the Bazaar DB database open in another tab as a reference. A fresh grid arrives every day, which keeps it a short, repeatable ritual rather than a long sitting.

How to play Bazaar Doku

Open the day's grid at bazaardb.gg/doku and read the clue on each of the three rows and each of the three columns before touching a box.
Choose a box and identify the two clues that intersect there: the answer you enter must satisfy both that box's row clue and its column clue.
Type the name of an item or skill from The Bazaar that fits both clues; remember that tag clues also accept cards whose text contains the clue word, and that a tag with a -Reference version accepts both.
Submit a valid answer to lock it into the box, then move to the next one, keeping in mind that no answer can be reused anywhere else in the grid.
Work through all nine boxes until the three-by-three grid is complete; your progress on the daily puzzle is saved if you need to leave and return.
Come back the next day for a brand-new grid, or try the random puzzles for extra practice if you want more in one sitting.

Tips and strategy

Scan all six clues first and find the box whose two clues overlap most narrowly; solving that tightest intersection early prevents you from wasting your only valid answer for it on another box.
Because answers cannot repeat, treat broad, versatile items as currency: hold them back for boxes where you cannot think of anything else, and use a more obscure exact-fit item where one exists.
Lean on tag clues. Since a tag clue also accepts any card whose text mentions that word, and a -Reference variant counts too, recalling an item's ability text rather than just its category can unlock a box you thought was empty.
Keep the Bazaar DB item database handy in another tab; filtering its catalog by type or tag is a legitimate way to surface candidates that fit a stubborn box.
Group your mental recall by hero. Items tied to Vanessa, Pygmalien, Dooley, Mak, or Stelle often cluster around shared themes, which helps you generate options for category-style clues.
Use the random puzzles to drill clue patterns you find hard before they show up on the saved daily grid, since random runs let you experiment without affecting your daily progress.

Good to know

Grid: 3x3 (nine boxes), each row and column has its own clue
Source game: The Bazaar, by the studio Tempo (created by Andrey "Reynad" Yanyuk)
Resets: New puzzle every day; daily progress is saved
Answers: Items and skills from The Bazaar (over a thousand items plus hundreds of skills); each can be used only once; at least two valid answers per box
Archive / practice: Random puzzles available, but random-puzzle progress is not saved
Publisher: Bazaar DB, a community database site at bazaardb.gg
Cost: Free to play in a web browser

Bazaar Doku FAQ

Is Bazaar Doku free?

Yes. It is a free browser puzzle hosted on Bazaar DB at bazaardb.gg/doku, with no purchase required to play the daily grid or the random puzzles.

How many guesses do you get in Bazaar Doku?

There is no fixed guess limit shown for the grid. Your goal is to fill all nine boxes correctly, where each answer must satisfy both its row clue and its column clue, and each answer can only be used once.

When does Bazaar Doku reset?

A new puzzle is available every day. Your progress on the daily puzzle is saved, so you can return and finish it, then a fresh grid arrives the following day.

Is there a Bazaar Doku archive?

The site offers random puzzles for extra practice in addition to the daily one. Note that progress on random puzzles is not saved the way your daily puzzle progress is.

Is Bazaar Doku related to Wordle?

It shares the once-a-day habit of Wordle-style games, but the format is different. It is a Sudoku-style grid where you place items and skills from The Bazaar to satisfy two overlapping clues per box, not a word you deduce from letter feedback.

Do I need to play The Bazaar to enjoy Bazaar Doku?

It helps a lot, since the answers are items and skills from The Bazaar. Newcomers can still play by keeping the Bazaar DB database open as a reference to find items that match each box's clues.