There's now a Wordle-like for Final Fantasy 14 players and it's putting my raid-addled mind to the test

I've fully entered my raiding era in Final Fantasy 14—I finally cleared my first full savage tier with the latest Arcadion raids, and I'm in the throes of progging my first ultimate (we do Looper, and then we do Looper etc). It's been a learning process of not only what my job does, but what everyone else's does and how they all intersect. Plus, you know, learning all the mechanics.

Has any of that come in handy with this Final Fantasy 14-based logic game that has recently dug its claws into me? Absolutely not, but these daily puzzles are a must-play for anyone looking to flex their knowledge of the critically-acclaimed MMORPG.

Clock Spots gives you eight different jobs spread out in a circle (at their "clock spots", hence the name), with each one having different criteria you need to fill in order to complete the puzzle. One spot might need a job released in a certain expansion, while a healer might have to be positioned with an AOE heal in order to catch other players with low HP.

It's a real test of just how much you know about the game—do you know who has a ground-targeted heal? Or which jobs you learn in Gridania versus Ul'dah or Limsa Lominsa? Or who wears Aiming accessories? Clock Spots has tooltips that you can hover over if you're not a walking Final Fantasy 14 encyclopaedia, but there's also a "blind prog" setting that turns them off entirely, which means you really have to know your stuff.

The puzzles vary in difficulty each day, all thematically named of course with Normal, Extreme, Savage, and Ultimate giving a little nod to how hard a time you might have with it. Clock Spots has only been going for a week as of writing so there's not too many archival puzzles to dive through, but they are releasing daily so you can get a consistent fix.

My times have been pretty average across most of the puzzles. I completely flubbed the April 23 puzzle and walked away with a measly solve time of 7:41, but managed to wrangle every other day at around the two-to-five minute mark.

As someone who is a total sucker for daily puzzles—I am a stout NYT Games enjoyer with Wordle, Connections, the Mini and the Midi practically being a ritual for me at this point—having one which is so specifically catered to my interests has me kicking my feet in pure joy.

I hope Clock Spots carries on for a good long while, and who knows? Maybe all of this random knowledge (I'm sorry, I cannot remember every job with a single-target raid buff), will actually come in handy when I play the actual game, too. One can hope, anyway. I need all the help I can get.