What is Peerkle?
Peerkle is a daily ordering puzzle that asks you to arrange eight items on a vertical ladder according to a single measurable axis. You have five attempts to place all eight tiles in the correct sequence from LOW 1 to HIGH 8. Each submission returns feedback showing which tiles are correctly placed, one step away, or two or more steps away. The game's signature mechanic is the Clear ladder button, which removes unlocked tiles but preserves any tiles you have already positioned correctly.
How to play Peerkle
Read the axis label at the top of the ladder to see what property you are ranking. Tap a tile in the reserve, then tap the rung where you want to place it. To swap two tiles on the ladder, tap their rungs one after the other.
Press Submit to check your arrangement. The game then moves to the next attempt line. A full icon means the tile is in the correct position, a half-full icon means it is one rung away, and an empty icon means it is at least two rungs away.
Use Clear ladder to return unlocked tiles to the reserve. Tiles the game has confirmed as correct stay in place.
Reading the feedback symbols
After each submission, each occupied rung shows one of three symbols. A full symbol means the tile is in the correct position. A half-full symbol means it belongs exactly one rung higher or lower. An empty symbol means it is at least two rungs from its target. The site also includes an alphabetical demonstration with a shorter, four-element example.
Available modes
Peerkle of the Day offers one puzzle shared by all players each day. The Archive lets you return to the previous day's puzzle or any earlier one. Both modes use the same eight-rung format and allow five attempts.
Place the extremes first. A tile at the top or bottom that sits two rungs off costs more correction moves than a middle tile that needs a single swap. When two adjacent rungs both show the half-full symbol, they are often a perfect swap candidate and the cheapest move available.
Clear ladder is not a full reset. It sends back only the tiles you have not yet locked, so you can rebuild around the rungs you have already confirmed. This mechanic makes it practical to test a hypothesis about half the ladder without discarding progress on the other half.
If two tiles appear to share the same value on the axis, consult the separate rules page that explains how Peerkle handles ties. The arithmetic is tight: eight tiles and five attempts leave little room for trial and error, so prioritize moves that narrow the range of uncertainty rather than guessing blindly in the middle rungs.