Temple
A timing game dressed as a Wordle variant: hold for a set duration or tap a set tempo.
Every day: Four date-seeded timing targets a day (a duration and a tempo, each to produce or to read), the same for everyone on that date. New puzzle: At midnight local time.
Temple is a small browser game about your sense of time. You choose whether to work with a duration or a tempo, and whether to produce it from a number or to read it from a flashing light. The daily targets are the same for everyone, and you score up to 10,000 points depending on how close you get.
About Temple
Temple is a playful timing game by Andy Tockman, a puzzle and game maker who hosts it on his personal site. Its name riffs on all the games ending in -le, with temp- as in tempo and time, and its own FAQ admits that calling it a Wordle variant is a joke.
You set up a game by choosing from three rows of buttons. Hold asks about a duration between 0.1 and 5 seconds, while Beat asks about a tempo between 30 and 300 beats per minute. Give shows you a number and asks you to press a button for that long, or tap at that tempo; Take shows you a flashing light and asks you to type in the number. Finally you choose between the daily game and infinite play.
The daily targets come from the date, so everyone playing on the same day gets the same four challenges, and they change at local midnight. Your score is the ratio between your answer and the correct one, times 10,000, so being off by double or by half gives 5,000. For tempo guesses, the game reads your last seven taps, and the submit button lights up once your tapping is steady.
It takes a minute or two and suits musicians, rhythm game players and anyone curious how accurate their internal clock is.
How to play Temple
- Choose a mode: hold for a duration, or beat for a tempo.
- Choose a direction: give (see a number and act it out) or take (watch a light and type the number).
- Choose daily to play today's shared target.
- Press for the right length of time, tap at least seven steady beats, or type your estimate.
- Submit your guess and see your score out of 10,000, then try the other daily combinations.
Tips
- For tempos, count along under your breath before you start tapping so the first taps are already steady.
- For durations, counting in half seconds is easier to keep even than counting whole seconds.
- Only the press matters for tempo, not the release, so keep each tap short and crisp.
Questions
Is the daily target the same for everyone?
Yes. It is generated from the date, so all players get the same targets that day, changing at local midnight.
How is the score worked out?
The smaller of your answer and the correct answer is divided by the larger, then multiplied by 10,000.
What are the ranges?
Durations run from 0.1 to 5 seconds and tempos from 30 to 300 beats per minute.
Is it really a Wordle variant?
Only as a joke: the name follows the -le pattern, but it is a timing game.
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