What Chainle Unlimited changes, and what it leaves alone
Chainle Unlimited exists because one set of five rounds is not always enough. Some players want a second sitting after the daily puzzle is done. Some players want to learn the shape of a bridge before they spend today's only submission. The pool is a separate list, each set with three two-word bridges, one three-word bridge, and one closest connection. The scorer is the same function the daily board uses. Progress for this page sits in chainle.practice.v1. The streak keys are never written here.
That separation is the whole point. Chainle Unlimited keeps the second sitting off the streak. A finish on this board must not look like a daily finish. If it did, a player could mint a streak without meeting the puzzle everyone else has on that UTC date. You can prove it: finish a set, go back to play Chainle, and the streak still reflects only daily completions. Archive replays are isolated the same way, which the Chainle archive explains on its own page.
People use unlimited mode in a few ordinary ways. One is a warm-up before the daily set, trying the shape of a bridge without spending today's guess. Another is a second sitting in the evening, when the daily set is already done and you still want five more rounds. A third is showing a friend the rules on a board that is not today's. None of those sittings changes the number on the home page. You can stop after one round, close the tab, and the unfinished set is still here when you come back on this browser.
How a Chainle Unlimited round is chosen
A fresh set comes from a fixed pool. The first board on this page is stable, rendered in the HTML so the clues are visible without a script. Use the button under the board and the browser picks a different set. The pool is public. Chainle Unlimited never pulls tomorrow's daily file, and unreleased daily files are not part of this page. Random here means a draw from a reviewed list, not a model inventing clues in the moment.
Each set was checked the same way a daily set is checked. The clues and the strongest connection are common English words. The gold can be explained in ordinary sentences. The five golds inside one set do not repeat. Accepted alternatives have preset scores below 1,000. The explanations are stored with the puzzle so a later archive-style writeup would have something true to say, even though these sets are not given their own date pages. Date pages are reserved for the daily calendar.
You may see a word here that later appears in a different role on a daily board. English only has so many clean double meanings. What you will not see is this page printing the clue pair from a daily puzzle that has not been released. This list and the daily list are separate collections. Classroom examples used on how to play Chainle are a third, smaller collection, so the lesson page does not have to raid the calendar. Scores still come back from the server after you submit, so the page you loaded does not already contain the listed connections for that set. You only learn the listed word once the round has a score.
How to use the Chainle Unlimited board
How to play Chainle Unlimited is the same shape as the daily game. Read both clues before you fall in love with the first association. On the three-word round, check the third clue before you submit. On the closest connection, prefer a synonym over a topic word. If the input rejects the guess, you have either repeated a clue or typed something outside the common-word list. Fix the entry and try again. The round is still yours. If the input accepts the guess and shows 40, the word is real and unlisted. The Chainle scoring rules describe why 40 is the floor. A blank field or a repeated clue does not spend the round, so a typo can be corrected before a score is stored.
This board is also the right place to learn the share result. After five scores, the text shows Unlimited, a total out of 5,000, five blocks, and the URL of this page. It still does not include clues or guesses. A fresh set is the button under the board. The heading does not carry a Chainle Unlimited issue number.
What Chainle Unlimited will not do
It will not log you in, because the site does not have accounts. It will not sync a streak to a phone if you started on a laptop. It will not sell a hint for today's daily puzzle, and it will not accept a request to reveal a date that is still in the future. It will not change the countdown on the home page. That countdown belongs to the daily clock, 00:00 UTC, and unlimited mode can be played on either side of it without affecting the handoff.
It will also not pretend that Chainle Unlimited means infinite puzzles generated on the fly. The pool is large enough for a long sitting, and it is finite because every set was read by a person. When you have seen a set before, the repetition is still useful. If you want a puzzle tied to a real date, use the archive for a revealed day instead of asking this board to impersonate the calendar.
Players who are stuck on the daily set sometimes come here to feel the pattern and then return. Name the kind of bridge you are missing, play two or three Chainle Unlimited rounds of that kind, and go back. The Chainle FAQ has a longer version of that advice that still does not print today's answers. If this board misbehaves, write to hello@chainle.me and describe the clues in front of you.