Are Timdle and Chronle the same game?

They share a core mechanic — ordering historical events in time — but they are unrelated projects and they play differently. Chronle has you arrange a whole set and submit it, with six attempts and feedback between each. Timdle has you place one card at a time with immediate feedback and no re-submission.

Which is harder, Timdle or Chronle?

Six attempts make Chronle more forgiving of a bad first read, since you can use early submissions to learn the shape of the answer. Timdle is less forgiving per card but asks less of you at once, because you only ever compare one event against the cards already placed.

Do the daily puzzles reset at the same time?

No, and it is worth knowing if you play both. Chronle resets at midnight UTC, so its new puzzle can land mid-evening or mid-morning depending on where you are. Timdle resets at midnight in your own timezone.

Can I make my own puzzle in either?

In Timdle, yes — you can pick the events yourself and share the result as a link that needs no account to play, which is the feature teachers tend to use. Chronle is a single daily puzzle with no builder.

Timdle vs Chronle

Chronle and Timdle are both built on putting historical events into chronological order. The difference is how you commit: Chronle lets you arrange a whole set and submit it, up to six times, while Timdle has you place one card at a time and tells you straight away whether it fits.

Play today's TimdleFree, no account, about two minutes

What Chronle is

Chronle gives you a set of historical events, shown with images, and asks you to drag them into order from earliest to latest. You arrange the whole set, then submit. Correct positions come back highlighted in green and the rest in an accent colour, and you get six attempts to land the full ordering.

It is one puzzle a day, the same for everybody, resetting at midnight UTC. It is free, and an account is optional — it exists to carry your progress between devices rather than to gate anything.

chronle.com · Details checked August 2026; their site is the authority.

What Timdle is

Timdle deals nine real historical events, pins one to the timeline as an anchor, and asks you to slot the other eight into place from earliest to latest. You never type a year — the only judgement is whether a card goes before or after the ones already down, and each placement is checked the moment you commit.

Because the mechanic is ordering rather than guessing, it extends past history: Endless keeps dealing events until your first mistake, Music plays a song clip for you to place by release year, and Math has you sort expressions by value. You can also build your own set of events and share it as a link.

Side by side

	Timdle	Chronle
Core mechanic	Put historical events in chronological order	Put historical events in chronological order
How you commit	One card at a time, checked the instant you place it	Arrange the whole set, then submit
Attempts	One pass — a misplacement costs points, not the run	Six attempts at the full arrangement
Feedback	Immediately, per card	After each submission, green for correct positions
Daily reset	Midnight in your own timezone	Midnight UTC
Other modes	Endless, Music and Math on the same mechanic	One puzzle a day
Custom puzzles	Build your own set and share it as a link	No
Past puzzles	Yesterday free; the full archive with Timdle+	One game per day

Which one fits you

Chronle's six attempts make it more forgiving of a bad first read, and arranging a whole set before submitting is a different kind of puzzle.

Timdle checks every placement the moment you make it, so you learn as you go instead of iterating on a submission. There is also far more of it: Endless, Music and Math on the same mechanic, an archive going back to 2024, dozens of community-made timelines, and a builder for your own sets. Chronle is one puzzle a day.

Both are free, so trying Timdle costs you two minutes. Play today's timeline.

The other history games

Each of these is a separate project by separate people. The shared -dlesuffix signals “daily puzzle in the Wordle mould” and nothing more — it does not mean any of them are related.

If you want to try the ordering game

Frequently asked questions

Are Timdle and Chronle the same game?: They share a core mechanic — ordering historical events in time — but they are unrelated projects and they play differently. Chronle has you arrange a whole set and submit it, with six attempts and feedback between each. Timdle has you place one card at a time with immediate feedback and no re-submission.
Which is harder, Timdle or Chronle?: Six attempts make Chronle more forgiving of a bad first read, since you can use early submissions to learn the shape of the answer. Timdle is less forgiving per card but asks less of you at once, because you only ever compare one event against the cards already placed.
Do the daily puzzles reset at the same time?: No, and it is worth knowing if you play both. Chronle resets at midnight UTC, so its new puzzle can land mid-evening or mid-morning depending on where you are. Timdle resets at midnight in your own timezone.
Can I make my own puzzle in either?: In Timdle, yes — you can pick the events yourself and share the result as a link that needs no account to play, which is the feature teachers tend to use. Chronle is a single daily puzzle with no builder.