Sadhana Daily
Three music puzzles a day, free
A daily puzzle habit in the tradition you actually study. Same puzzles for everyone, new ones at midnight IST, no account needed to play — and each of the three comes in a Carnatic, a Hindustani and a Western version, so the answer set matches what you know.
The three games
Ragadle · Modle — guess the mystery one in six
Guess the hidden raga in six tries. Every guess lights up the swaras it shares with the answer, so a wrong guess is still information — the overlap tells you which family you are circling. The Western version, Modle, does the same with modes.
It rewards exactly the knowledge that arranging ragas by their note sets gives you, which is why it is oddly good practice rather than only a game.
Connections — sixteen tiles, four hidden groups
Sixteen tiles conceal four groups of four. Find them all with four mistakes to spare. The grouping logic is musical rather than verbal: janya ragas of one melakarta, swaras that share a position, ragas of a time of day, chords of a key.
Named Swara Connections in Carnatic, Sur Connections in Hindustani, Chord Connections in Western.
Ladder — one note at a time
Turn one raga into another, changing a single swara per rung — and every rung must itself be a real raga. Beat par to win. It is the hardest of the three and the most instructive: it forces you to hold a map of which scales actually exist rather than which ones you could construct.
Raga Ladder, Raag Ladder and Scale Ladder respectively.
Which version do I get?
| Tradition | Guess-in-six | Grouping | Ladder |
|---|---|---|---|
| Carnatic | Ragadle | Swara Connections | Raga Ladder |
| Hindustani | Ragadle | Sur Connections | Raag Ladder |
| Western | Modle | Chord Connections | Scale Ladder |
Each tradition draws on its own set, so a Hindustani player is not asked to place Carnatic melakartas. You pick the tradition in the app.
Streaks and sharing
Keep a streak, and share your result as a grid of coloured tiles — the pattern of how you got there, never the answer, so you can post it without spoiling the day for anyone. A shared link shows a rendered tile image of your grid.
Is this practice, or procrastination?
Honestly, both — and it is worth being straight about which is which. The games exercise recall and recognition: which swaras a raga contains, which ragas share a scale, how scales relate. That is genuine theoretical knowledge and it transfers.
What they do not train is production — singing or playing in tune, shaping a gamaka, holding a tala. No amount of Ragadle improves your shruti. For that you need the tanpura, the tala and a recorded take: see the Carnatic, Hindustani or Western guide. If you want ear work that does train production, ear training and sight reading is the right page.
Access
- Free, and public on the web — playable at sadhana-ai.com/daily without an account or an app.
- Also in the iPhone and Android apps.
- New puzzles at midnight IST.
- No subscription involved.