Shogi365: A Tsume Shogi Puzzle Every Day
One tsume shogi puzzle a day, from mate in 3 to mate in 9. 4,000 verified problems that you play out on the board, not look up in the back of a book.
What is Shogi365?
Tsume shogi is the checkmate puzzle of Japanese chess. Every move by the attacker must give check, and the king must be mated in exactly the number of moves given. Shogi players have trained their endgame this way for centuries, usually with a small book and a lot of staring.
Shogi365 puts 4,000 of these puzzles on your phone, 1,000 each at mate in 3, 5, 7 and 9. Instead of reading the answer, you play it. Any check can be made, right or wrong, and the defending king answers on its own, so a wrong idea fails on the board the way it would in a real game.
It follows the same design as Sudoku365: one puzzle a day, a streak to keep, and a few minutes that fit on a train or before bed.
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What's Inside
4,000 Puzzles in Four Lengths
Easy is mate in 3, Medium mate in 5, Hard mate in 7, Expert mate in 9. Every problem was generated and checked by the app's own solver. A new puzzle is picked at random from the ones you have not solved yet at that difficulty, and the difficulty screen shows how many of the 1,000 you have cleared.
- A unique first move, and a unique attacking move at every step
- No alternative mates
- No idle pieces: every piece on the board and in hand is needed
- The advertised length is what you actually play. Pointless interpositions are rejected
Play It Out, Don't Peek
The board enforces the rules of tsume shogi, so you learn them by playing rather than by reading about them.
- Only checks can be played, and any check is played out
- The king resists while the line still forces mate, and escapes once it does not
- A line that runs out without mate fails. Try again, up to three times
- Drop pawn mate and double pawns are illegal, and forced promotions are respected
- After solving, review the game one move at a time from the starting position
The Daily Challenge
Everyone in the world gets the same puzzle each day. Solve it to grow your streak, and the home screen shows your last seven days.
- Missed a day? Tap it in the seven-day strip and watch a short ad to try that day's puzzle. Solve it and the day counts toward your streak. This works for the last six days
- Reminders: pick the days of the week and a time. No notification comes on a day you have already solved
- The first time you solve the daily challenge, the app offers a daily reminder at that time of day
Hints That Leave the Move to You
Stuck? A hint lights up the piece to move and the square it goes to. You still make the move yourself. You start with ten hints and earn another each time you solve the daily challenge.
A Board You Can Sit With
The details you would want from a real board and set.
- Stats per difficulty: solved count, best time, average time and progress through the 1,000 puzzles
- Pieces labeled with two characters (歩兵) or one (歩)
- Optional legal-move markers and promotion prompt
- Light and dark themes with a wooden board and boxwood-style pieces
- An interrupted puzzle resumes where you left it
- Works offline, with no account and no ranking
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Free
- ✓All 4,000 puzzles at every difficulty
- ✓The daily challenge and streaks
- ✓Hints, stats and every setting
- ✓Light ads, with optional ads to earn a hint, refill retries or try a missed day
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- ✓Everything in Free
- ✓No banner or interstitial ads
- ✓A one-time purchase, no subscription. ¥300 on the Japanese App Store
Ads you choose to watch, such as the one for trying a missed day, are still available after removing ads. Prices vary by country, so please check the in-app purchase screen.
One Puzzle Today
Start with a mate in 3 and see how far up the ladder you get. Download Shogi365 and solve today's puzzle.
