The Chordle game
Chordle is a daily challenge to recognize a chord.
There are three versions:
You can listen to the chord by using the Play Chord button.
You can enter the notes using a piano keyboard
or using a guitar fretboard
You can switch between these two versions using the guitar symbol or the piano symbol on the toolbar.
Chordle is based on the idea that you can define a chord as a sequence of notes, played in ascending order.
In Chordle, the sequence
is equivalent to the C major triad
on the piano
or on the guitar
The three versions are basically the same, with the following exceptions:
- In the version with 3 notes:
- the root note may be at any position
- the chord always contains three different notes
- In the versions with 4 and 5 notes:
- the first note is always the first note
- the chord may contain repeated notes
You can a very quick tutorial via the icon on the toolbar, or find more informations on the detailed instructions page.
Chordle is modelled on the popular game Wordle, so if you know Wordle you should understand Chordle quickly.
For the version with 3 notes, you start with an empty grid of 6 rows with 3 tiles in each row.
You get six attempts to identify the chord. After entering your guess for the chord, you can listen to listen to the chord you entered, using a play button ▶ which is shown to the left of the chord.
After entering your first guess, the tiles are coloured as follows:
- green - this is the correct note, in the correct position
- yellow - this note is in the chord, but at a different position
- grey - this note is not in the chord
In the piano version
a thumbnail piano keyboard shows the notes under the guess.
In the guitar version
a thumbnail guitar fretboard shows the notes to the right of the guess.
All about chords
This site contains a comprehensive guide to chords, which will help you to understand chords and to play chordle.
The guide does not assume any particular knowledge about music or about chords. The ideas are introduced in a logical order anyone interested in chords should be able to understand.
The pages in the guide illustrate chords on a piano keyboard and on a guitar fretboard. They do not use any musical notation.
The guide is split onto 4 pages, which cover four different kinds of chord.
This page introduces the most basic ideas and describes the 4 kinds of triad, which are chords with 3 notes.
This page introduces more ideas and describes the different 7th chords.
This page briefly introduces extended chords and then goes on to describe added note chords. Added note chords contain additional notes, but NOT the 7th.
This final page describes the complex extended and altered chords used in jazz.