One miss ends the run. Build the longest streak you can.
You are shown the item to make. Rebuild its hidden 3x3 crafting recipe from the item tray: drag an item into a slot, or tap an item to hold it and tap a slot to drop it in. Drag a slot item to another slot to move it, or back to the tray to remove it. With nothing held, tapping a filled slot empties it. Leave slots empty where the recipe shape has gaps, then hit Submit guess. Every cell turns a color to show how close you are, and you have six guesses to match the recipe exactly.
Each round shows you the item to make, then hides its shaped crafting recipe. You start with an empty 3x3 crafting grid, place items in the slots, and submit a guess. The grid then colors each cell: green for the right item in the right slot, yellow for an item that belongs in the recipe but sits in the wrong slot, gray for an item that is not in the recipe. You get six tries to match it exactly, then hit next recipe for another.
The recipes come straight from the game's own data files, so the answer is the real crafting pattern, not a wiki's idea of it. The item tray holds every ingredient and result that appears in a recipe for the latest version, so you only ever place items that could be part of the round. Drag an item from the tray into a slot, or tap an item to hold it and tap a slot to drop it in. Drag a filled slot to another slot to move it, or drop it back on the tray to clear it, and tapping a filled slot with nothing held empties it. Slots the recipe leaves empty also count, so getting the shape right is part of the challenge.
The hint logic works like Wordle, including duplicates. If a recipe uses one redstone and you place two, only one of yours can light up, and an item already locked in green will not also turn another copy yellow. That keeps the hints honest about exactly how many of each item the recipe needs.
The game only uses shaped recipes, the ones where position matters, so the grid layout is half the challenge. Here are a few classic shapes to get your eye in. Once you know how a recipe is laid out, the green and yellow hints close the rest fast.
| Item | Grid shape |
|---|---|
| Piston | Planks across the top, cobblestone box, iron in the center, redstone at the bottom middle |
| Hopper | Iron on the left, right and bottom, with a chest in the center |
| Crafting Table | A two by two square of planks |
| Furnace | Eight cobblestone around an empty center |
| Bow | String down the right, three sticks forming an arc |
| Shears | Two iron ingots stacked diagonally |
A good first guess uses common materials in a plausible layout, for example planks, sticks and iron, since so many recipes lean on them. Read the yellows: they tell you the right items before you have the right slots, which is usually faster than guessing positions blind.
Pick a mode from the chips at the top. Endless is the default: solve a recipe and your streak goes up by one, and it grows as long as you keep solving them back to back, but one failed recipe ends the run and resets the streak. Your current streak, best streak, and total solved are saved on your own device, so they follow your browser, not an account. Free Play has no game over, so you can reveal answers and work through recipes at your own pace with only a session tally, which makes it the relaxed way to learn crafting layouts.
When you finish a round, the share button copies an emoji grid of your guesses, one colored block per cell, with your score and current streak, ready to paste into a chat without spoiling the answer.
1. Drag an item from the tray into a slot, or tap an item then tap a slot.
2. Submit the grid to color it, then use the hints to fix items and positions.
3. Solve it or run out, then hit next recipe for a fresh random pattern.
It is a game where you rebuild a hidden Minecraft crafting recipe on an empty 3x3 grid. Each round shows you the item to make, for example a piston or a hopper, and picks its real shaped recipe from the game's recipe data. You place items in the grid and submit a guess, and the grid tells you which items and positions are right. You get six tries to match the recipe exactly, then start a new one.
After each guess every cell you filled is colored like Wordle. Green means that item is correct and sits in the right slot. Yellow means the item is part of the recipe but you put it in the wrong slot. Gray means that item is not used in this recipe at all. Empty slots that the recipe also leaves empty count as solved, so the shape matters too.
Six. The board shows which guess you are on out of six. If you match every filled slot exactly before running out, you win and the recipe is revealed. If you use all six without solving it, the game shows you the correct recipe so you learn it. Either way you can hit next recipe to play another round right away.
The recipes use the latest Minecraft version, and the line above the game says exactly which version that is. The puzzles and the item list match what that version actually crafts, including recent additions like the mace and copper tools.
Endless is the default: solving a recipe builds your streak, and a single failed recipe ends the run and resets the streak, so it rewards a careful run. Free Play has no game over. You solve recipes at your own pace, you can reveal the answer any time to learn a recipe, and nothing counts against you, with just a tally of how many you solved this session. Your mode choice is saved on your device, and switching modes starts a fresh run.
As many as you want. After each round you hit next recipe for a fresh random pattern, with the same hint system. It is the fastest way to learn crafting layouts, and you can keep going for as long as you like.
In Endless mode, solving a recipe adds one to your streak, and the streak keeps growing as long as you keep solving them back to back. Use all six guesses without solving one and the streak resets to zero. Your current streak, best streak, and total solved are stored only on your device, so clearing your browser data clears them. Free Play does not use a streak.
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