2026-09-22 22:40 UTC
I like this daily web game: guess the year given clues about what happened then. It's a bit arbitrary and, like Wordle outside of Hard Mode, you can hunt for more digits (and there are only so many digits), but it has a fundamental flaw in its sharing mechanism tipping the hand too much. Take the game from Sunday:
#pastpuzzle en-582
๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐จ (-225)
๐ฅ๐จ๐จ๐ฅ (+216)
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐จ๐จ (+27)
๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ๐ฉ (0)
4/4 ๐ฉ
https://www.pastpuzzle.com
The first clue talks about a physicist and a scientific community, so it's clearly pretty recent, yet I guessed a year that was 216 too far in the future. This game only lets you guess dates that have happened, so we know there's a ceiling of 2026-216 = 1810. If you guess 1765 as our first guess based on this, you'd get ๐ฉ๐ฅ๐ฅ๐ฅ. Now you know it's 1800-10, but not 1805-07. If that and either clue doesn't do it, guess 2013 for ๐ฅ๐ฉ๐จ๐ฉ and you've solved it in three.
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