CHILLPLAYS CHAIN REACTION

LIVES:
LADDER — CHANGE ONE LETTER PER STEP
TARGET
ALPHABET DEFUSE BOARD
LEFT-CLICK: TYPE  ·  RIGHT-CLICK: PLANT MINE FLAG 🚩
SYSTEM LOG

How to play Chain Reaction — a word-ladder puzzle with mines

Chain Reaction is a free word-ladder game: rewire the START word into the TARGET one letter at a time, and every rung must be a real four-letter word — COLD → CORD → WORD → WARD → WARM. Four letters of the alphabet are mined, and stepping onto a word that contains one costs a life.

What is a word ladder?

A puzzle where you transform one word into another by changing a single letter per step, with every intermediate step a real word. Chain Reaction adds mines, radar counts and a move budget of nine steps on top of the classic form.

What does the RADAR number mean?

Every safe rung shows a red count: how many mined letters sit exactly one alphabet step from that word's letters. Cross-reference the counts on different rungs to triangulate all four mines before you step on one.

Can every Chain Reaction puzzle be solved?

Yes — every deal is machine-checked so a mine-free ladder always exists, and the log tells you the shortest safe route length. Beat it or match it within nine moves and three lives.

Is there a daily Chain Reaction?

Yes. The daily challenge deals the same start-and-target pair to every player worldwide and resets at midnight UTC. Your streak is saved on your device — no account needed.

Can I play Chain Reaction offline?

Yes — fully. After your first visit the whole game is stored on your device and plays with no connection at all, airplane mode included. You can even install it from your browser menu and play it like an app. Free, no account, nothing locked behind a signal.