Absurdle: the machiavellian version of Wordle

Absurdle is an experiment to find the most difficult possible variant of Wordle,' says its creator

Wordle has taken over your timeline through pure force of pleasantness. Every day, an empty six-tiered grid appears in the world's browser. We try to guess a secret five-letter word; with each entry the player learns if the letters they used appear in the solution, appear in the solution and are in the right place, or aren't in the solution at all. So, you might navigate from ASKEW to ABLED, before eventually arriving at ABBEY.

There's only one new Wordle puzzle a day, and designer Josh Wardle has not included any of the garish barnacles that tend to accrue to breezy mobile pastimes. That philosophy has made it a runaway success with hundreds of thousands of players. In a media environment awash with misinformation and division, it's just kinda nice to spend a few minutes every day trying to guess a word.