In-Flight Entertainment

Flight paths are long. Now they don't have to be boring.

In-Flight Entertainment gives you three puzzle games to play while your gryphon, wyvern or bat carries you across the map: Chess Puzzles, Wordle and Connections. The window opens automatically when you take a flight and tucks itself away when you land, with your progress saved for next time.

How it works

• Take a flight and it opens. The window opens as soon as you start a flight path and closes when you arrive.
• Auto-show toggle. The switch in the top-right corner turns automatic opening on or off. It's on by default.
• Play anytime with /ife. Waiting for a boat, sitting in a queue, or still mid-puzzle after you land? Type /ife to open or close the window.
• Progress is kept. Close the window mid-game, land, log out, and you'll pick up right where you left off.

Slash commands

• /ife: open or close the window
• /ife auto: turn auto-show in flight on or off
• /ife reset: move the window back to the center of the screen

Chess Puzzles

Rated tactics puzzles in the style of the big online chess sites.

• Your opponent moves first, then it's your turn to find the best continuation.
• Click or drag pieces. Legal moves are shown as dots and capture squares as rings.
• Instant feedback: a green check for a correct move, a red X for a miss, and the opponent replies automatically as you work through the line.
• Retry, Hint, Solution and Skip buttons. Any checkmating move is accepted, even if it's not the "book" move.
• Puzzle rating: your rating goes up and down as you solve or miss puzzles, and new puzzles are picked to match your level.
• Promotion picker, last-move highlights and board coordinates. The board flips automatically when you're playing Black.
• Board sound effects for moves, captures, castling, check, promotion, correct and incorrect answers. Turn them off with the Sound button.
• Almost 1,000 puzzles from beginner to expert, covering forks, pins, skewers, mates in 1 through 4, sacrifices, endgames and more.

Wordle

Guess the hidden five-letter word in six tries.

• Green, yellow and gray tiles with proper scoring for repeated letters, plus the flip-to-reveal animation.
• Type with your keyboard or click the on-screen keys. The on-screen keys change color as you learn which letters are in the word.
• A new daily word every day, with a countdown to the next one.
• Hard Mode: any letters you've already revealed must be used in later guesses.
• Statistics: games played, win percentage, current and max streak, and your guess distribution.
• Practice mode: unlimited extra words for longer flights. They don't affect your daily stats.

Connections

Sixteen words. Four hidden groups. Can you find them all?

• Pick four words that share something in common and submit. Groups range from easy (yellow) to devious (purple).
• Shuffle and Deselect All, plus "One away…" hints when you're close.
• Four mistakes allowed. Run out and the remaining groups are revealed.
• A results grid at the end shows how your guesses went.
• 60 original puzzles, with a new daily puzzle, a browser for every puzzle, and a "Random Unplayed" button.

Notes

• While Wordle is open, typed letters, Enter and Backspace go to the game. Escape and all your other keys still work normally, and keyboard capture switches off in combat.
• Sounds play on WoW's Sound Effects channel, so they follow your game's effects volume.
• Built for WoW Forever.

Credits

• Chess puzzles: from the Lichess puzzle database (CC0).
• Chess pieces: the "cburnett" set by Colin M.L. Burnett (CC BY-SA 3.0).
• Chess sounds: original sounds made for this addon.
• Connections puzzles: all original, written for this addon.

In-Flight Entertainment is a fan project and is not affiliated with or endorsed by Chess.com, Lichess, or The New York Times. Wordle and Connections are trademarks of The New York Times Company.