DAILY CRAFTING PUZZLE
Minecraftle
Pick an ingredient, place it on the 3×3 grid, and press Check. You have 10 guesses.
Today's Minecraftle daily puzzle
Place a guess, press Check, and read Correct, Move, and Not needed.
How a round works
- Pick an ingredient from the tray, or choose Empty. The tray is Ashchip, Reedbind, Slatechip, Tinleaf, Brassdrop, Prismbit, Emberdust, and Kilnclay.
- Place it in a slot. Empty cells are allowed. You need at least one ingredient.
- Check the recipe and read the marks. You have 10 guesses.
- Correct — that ingredient is in the right slot.
- Move — that ingredient is in the recipe, but in a different slot.
- Not needed — that ingredient is not part of this recipe.
Daily is one shared recipe per UTC day and tracks your streak. Unlimited is practice: a new recipe when you want one, and it does not change the streak. Hard mode locks every Correct slot, including a Correct empty slot. The full scoring is on the rules page, including hard mode.
The strategy page covers opening placements, how to read the marks, empty slots, and a worked example. It does not reveal the daily recipe. Past UTC dates are on the archive. Future dates stay closed.
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When does the daily recipe update?
The daily recipe changes at 00:00 UTC, when the Coordinated Universal Time date rolls over. Your local midnight is a different moment. A clock ahead of UTC sees the new puzzle later that morning. A clock behind UTC sees it on the previous evening.
The page reads the current time as an ISO timestamp and keeps the first ten characters. That string is the UTC calendar date. Daily chooses its recipe from that date, not from the hour on your wall clock. The book does not get a new file at midnight. A fixed order, built in the browser from a seed, assigns one recipe to each UTC date. The same date keeps the same recipe.
The streak uses those UTC date keys. A win on today's UTC date counts today. A loss on today's UTC date sets the streak to zero. If today is still unfinished, the count starts at yesterday and walks backward through consecutive wins. Skipping a UTC day after a streak has started breaks the run. Archive rounds do not change it. Unlimited rounds do not change it either.
How is Minecraftle different from Wordle?
Wordle asks you to name a five-letter word. Minecraftle asks you to fill a 3×3 crafting grid. After each check, every slot is marked Correct, Move, or Not needed. You get 10 guesses. Empty cells are allowed, and you still need at least one ingredient on the board.
| What you do | Wordle | Minecraftle |
|---|---|---|
| Guess | A five-letter word | A 3×3 recipe |
| Marks | Green, yellow, or gray on each letter | Correct, Move, or Not needed on each slot |
| Tries | 6 | 10 |
| Empty cells | Every position is a letter | Empty slots are allowed |
| Hard mode | Reuses the letters the marks already confirmed | Locks every Correct slot, including a Correct empty slot |
| Practice | One daily word | Unlimited is a separate mode and does not change the streak |
Hard mode and Unlimited are separate. Hard mode can be on for the daily puzzle or for Unlimited. It locks slots the checker has already called Correct, and it does not add or remove guesses. Unlimited deals a practice recipe when you ask for another one. It does not use the shared UTC puzzle, and a finished Unlimited round leaves the daily streak as it was. Daily stays one recipe for everyone on that UTC date.
Why is the board a 3×3 grid?
The board has nine slots because the tray has nine choices: eight ingredients, plus Empty. Each slot is one of those choices. Position is part of the answer, not only a place to drop a name. A material can belong in the recipe and still sit in the wrong cell.
The eight ingredients are Ashchip, Reedbind, Slatechip, Tinleaf, Brassdrop, Prismbit, Emberdust, and Kilnclay. Empty is a real selection. A blank cell is stored as empty, not as a ninth named material. The checker compares your nine slots with the secret pattern. Correct means that slot matches, including a slot that should stay empty. Move means that ingredient is in the recipe, in another slot. Not needed means it is not part of this recipe. An empty guess never receives Move, because a blank is not an ingredient that can be relocated. Two marks would hide that split. Everything that failed to match the slot would look the same, whether the item belongs elsewhere or does not belong at all.
A shape can also shift or mirror on the grid and still match. The checker scores those placements and keeps the strongest set of marks, so the slot carries information beyond the ingredient list. Recipes in the book use three to six ingredients. The other cells stay empty. You do not have to fill all nine slots. You do have to place at least one ingredient.
Where can I practice or replay past puzzles?
Practice and replay stay on this site, off the live daily answer. Unlimited gives you a new recipe without touching the streak. The archive opens a past UTC date and keeps the pattern hidden until you finish. Strategy and the rules explain the marks. They do not print today's recipe.
Open Unlimited when you want another round after the daily is done, or before you spend a guess on it. The archive lists UTC dates on or before today. Future dates stay closed. Playing an earlier day does not repair a broken streak. The rules page is the full scoring reference, including hard mode. The strategy page covers opening placements, empty slots, and a worked example that is not the live recipe.
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Frequently asked questions
What is Minecraftle?
Minecraftle is a free, independent daily crafting-recipe puzzle in your browser. Each UTC day has one secret recipe on a 3×3 grid, and you have 10 guesses. Unlimited practice uses the same rules.
How do you play Minecraftle?
Pick an ingredient, place it on the 3×3 grid, and press Check recipe. Correct means the right slot. Move means a different slot. Not needed means it is not in the recipe. The daily puzzle resets at 00:00 UTC.
Is Minecraftle official Minecraft?
No. Independent fan-made puzzle. Not an official Minecraft product, and not approved by or associated with Mojang or Microsoft. Not affiliated with the original Minecraftle.