Chainle Modes: Daily, Practice and Archive
Daily, Practice and Archive draw from the same 1,200 clue sets but follow different scoring rules.
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Daily: the shared table
The Daily mode gives the same five rounds to every player and resets at 00:00 UTC. Daily play is what your streak is built on, and it draws from the scheduled half of the collection: 1,000 of the 1,200 distinct clue sets are reserved for daily tables. A daily season spans 200 tables — five rounds each — and never repeats a clue set within the season.
Practice: the 200-round pool
Practice draws from its own pool of 200 rounds. Two properties matter:
- It does not affect the daily streak. A bad practice table costs nothing but time.
- Selections can repeat. Unlike the daily season’s no-repeat rule, the practice pool can serve you a round you have already seen.
Practice is the natural home for experiments: rehearsing an unfamiliar bridge type or checking how a hunch scores before you try it on the daily table.
Archive: dates that keep their rules
The Archive holds earlier published dates, and each date keeps its original collection and its original scoring version. Replaying an archive date is a replay of history, not a re-scored copy — including the rule set in force before the October 3, 2026 season, with its 970-point ceiling on estimated scores.
One collection, three doors
| Daily | Practice | Archive | |
|---|---|---|---|
| Rounds per table | 5 | 5 | 5 |
| Affects the streak | yes | no | no |
| Source of rounds | 1,000 scheduled daily clue sets | 200 practice clue sets | past published dates |
| Repeats | none within a season | selections can repeat | fixed by date |
| Scoring version | current, from October 3, 2026 | current; older practice links keep earlier rules | each date’s original version |
Together the two pools make up the full collection: 1,000 scheduled daily clue sets plus 200 practice clue sets equals 1,200 distinct clue sets. And because the daily season never repeats a clue set, the same table never comes back within a season — which makes every daily round a one-shot event rather than a rehearsal.
Choosing a mode
- Learning the game: Practice, where a low score has no downstream cost.
- Protecting a streak: Daily, ideally at a consistent time relative to the 00:00 UTC reset.
- Studying the rules: Archive, to see exactly how scoring behaved under earlier versions.
Whichever mode you play, the answer rules are the same — what changes is which rounds you get and which scoring version grades them. If a score from an older table looks impossible by today’s standards, the rule-version guide explains why.