Chronle: daily history game

Chronle is a daily history game about order, not exact dates. Every day it gives you the same handful of real historical events, each paired with an image and shuffled out of sequence, and challenges you to sort them from earliest to latest. You get six moves to lock in the full timeline, with correct placements turning green to guide your remaining adjustments.

What is Chronle?

Chronle is a daily browser game about historical sequence rather than precise dates. Each day it hands every player the same small set of real historical events, each shown with an image, in a scrambled order. Your task is to read the timeline correctly and arrange those events from the earliest at the top to the most recent at the bottom. You are not asked to type a year or name a century. You only have to know, or reason out, what came before what.

The core loop is a guess-and-feedback cycle borrowed loosely from Wordle, but the input is physical reordering instead of typing letters. You drag events into the slots you think are right using the handle of six dots on the right of each card, then submit the whole arrangement. The game checks your order and marks the events you placed correctly in green, while the ones still out of place show in a contrasting accent color. The site frames your budget as six moves to get the correct order, so each rearrange-and-submit step counts and gradually narrows down where the remaining events belong. That makes the puzzle feel less like a quiz and more like sorting a deck you can only peek at a few times.

What sets Chronle apart from most Wordle-style spinoffs is the subject and the interaction. Instead of vocabulary or geography, it tests your sense of historical order across many eras and topics, and instead of single answers it asks you to manage a whole sequence at once with a limited number of moves. The images do real work here: clothing, architecture, technology, and art style often hint at an era when an exact date will not come to mind. Because the same events go out to everyone each day, it also doubles as a shared talking point and a friendly competition.

Chronle was made by Andrew Henry, who builds under the handle ajhenry. It started in March 2025 and was originally created for the Hack Reddit 2025 hackathon, where it earned a Best App honorable mention, and it has a companion presence on Reddit through the r/chronle community. The standalone site is free to play, resets at midnight UTC for a fresh puzzle, and keeps an archive so you can go back and try earlier days. Making a free account is optional and mainly lets you track your progress and stats across devices. The overall vibe is low pressure and curiosity-driven: a quick daily round that rewards a broad sense of history and a bit of careful deduction, suitable for casual players and history buffs alike.

How to play Chronle

Open Chronle for the day and look over the set of historical events, each shown as a card with an image.
Use the handle of six dots on the right side of each card to drag events up or down the list.
Arrange the cards so the earliest event sits at the top and the most recent sits at the bottom.
Submit your arrangement to check it: correctly placed events highlight in green and the rest show in an accent color.
Use that feedback to reposition only the events still marked wrong, then submit again.
Reach the correct chronological order within your six moves to solve the day's puzzle.

Tips and strategy

Lock down the events you are sure about first, then slot the uncertain ones into the gaps between those anchors.
Read the images for era cues such as clothing, architecture, weapons, art style, or technology when an exact date will not come to mind.
After each submission, focus your moves only on the cards that did not turn green, since the green ones are already confirmed.
Treat the six moves as a budget: avoid reshuffling the whole list when a single swap could fix the remaining errors.
When two events feel close in time, decide which broad century or period each belongs to before worrying about the precise gap between them.
If you are stuck between two orderings, place the one you are more confident about and let the next round's feedback settle the rest.

Good to know

Resets: Daily at midnight UTC
Cost: Free to play
Moves: Six moves to get the correct order
Archive: Yes, past puzzles are playable
Creator: Andrew Henry (ajhenry)
Platform: Web browser, with a companion r/chronle community on Reddit

Chronle FAQ

Is Chronle free?

Yes. Chronle is free to play in your browser. Creating an account is optional and mainly lets you track your progress and stats across devices.

How many moves do you get in Chronle?

The site gives you six moves to get the events into the correct chronological order. After each submission, correctly placed events are marked in green so you can focus on the rest.

When does Chronle reset?

A new puzzle appears every day at midnight UTC, and all players get the same set of events for that day.

Is there a Chronle archive?

Yes. Chronle keeps an archive of previous puzzles, so you can go back and play days you missed.

Is Chronle related to Wordle?

Chronle borrows the once-a-day, limited-attempt, color-feedback format made popular by Wordle, but it is its own game. Instead of guessing a word, you drag historical events into chronological order. It was created by Andrew Henry and is not made by the team behind Wordle.