♟️ Rookata — a daily logic puzzle, no chess knowledge required.

One puzzle a day. One piece left standing.

Rookata (Rook + Kata) is a calm, daily brain teaser where you clear a board down to a single piece — and every single move is a capture. It borrows the way chess pieces move, but requires zero chess knowledge. If you can learn how five pieces slide across a board (and we'll show you in five seconds), you can play.

The twist that makes it a puzzle: each piece can only capture twice. So you can't just snake one rook around eating everything — the order of your moves is everything. Every puzzle has a solution, and every loss is a miscalculation you could have spotted. No luck. No guessing.

🧠 Zero luck, pure logic — perfect information, fully deterministic.
⏱️ 30–90 second sessions — a daily habit, not a time sink.
📖 One sentence of rules — if it needs more than a tooltip, it's too complicated.
🧘 Calm by design — no ticking timers, no clutter, no ads.
👨‍👩‍👧 Truly all-ages — a newcomer understands it instantly; the puzzles stay genuinely deep.
Clear the board. Leave the last piece. Come back tomorrow.

Future Updates Roadmap! Estimated Release 9/1/2026 

1. History tracking, see the last 100 puzzles you completed in any mode
2. Share puzzles (share the puzzle image with others)
3. More variant pieces! To be announced! 
4. More free puzzles and options for pieces in free mode!