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How a daily Shotle puzzle is made

See how answers are chosen, assigned a date and checked.

By chko gamesPublished About 2 min

A daily puzzle gives people a shared challenge to compare. Behind it are three simple jobs: choose a suitable answer, give it a date and check that the game works. Different games need different kinds of answers.

Start with the game

Playerdle needs a player profile. Career Path needs a club journey. Player Guess needs a surname with the right number of letters. Top 10 needs a ranking with a clear subject.

The question comes first. Sharing a former club, for example, is a different question from having been teammates. The clues need to match what the game is asking.

Choose suitable answers

Not every footballer suits every puzzle. Career Path needs more than one club stop. Career Sorter needs enough different clubs to make an ordering challenge. Playerdle leaves out historical legends.

You may be allowed to guess a name that is never chosen as a daily answer. Accepted guesses and possible answers can be different lists. Those rules help the format work; they are not a ranking of players.

Give the puzzle a date

Daily changeover is at midnight in London. Your local clock may show a different time. When comparing results with a friend, check that you chose the same game and date.

The scheduled quizzes avoid repeating an answer within their previous 90 dates. This is a rule within each quiz. It does not prevent the same player appearing in a different game. Some formats have their own prepared cards.

Example / Making a daily puzzle
  1. Choose records
  2. Set a date
  3. Check the puzzle
  4. Ready to play
Checks help a puzzle work. Players can still spot mistakes.

Check it, then listen to players

Checks look for missing records, unsuitable answers and other problems that could stop a round working. But a working puzzle can still contain a wrong football fact or a confusing clue.

Archives let you return to a selected challenge. If today’s puzzle or an archive looks wrong, report the game, date and exact issue. Reports help find problems that automatic checks miss.

Questions or a correction? Contact chko games.