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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 ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ (-225) ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฅ (+216) ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸจ (+27) ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฉ (0) 4/4 ๐ŸŸฉ 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 ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฅ. Now you know it's 1800-10, but not 1805-07. If that and either clue doesn't do it, guess 2013 for ๐ŸŸฅ๐ŸŸฉ๐ŸŸจ๐ŸŸฉ and you've solved it in three.

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