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Someone more capable than I should make the final form of this: No green or yellow feedback is provided, but only the timing information used to calculate it. If cryptographers are serious about side-channel attacks, why not show off the danger using no-information Wordle?

(edit: Absurdle was taken)

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An Absurdle exists[1], but instead of giving no hints it is adversarial, e.g. changing the secret word to dodge your guesses.

[1] https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

That's actually quite fun!

If you like this, you might like Quantum Childminding too: https://www.puzzlescript.net/play.html?p=f7712f978d624c66f1f...

It's about looking after Schrodinger's daughter; similar to the above, she appears only if you prove she cannot be anywhere else.

I like this game a lot, especially how it's easy to understand & fun to play with.

Thanks for that, I really enjoyed it. Thats a very imaginative short game

Thanks for highlighting this — I’ve been waiting for something else by QNTM! I’ll note he has done this sort of thing before, in the form of HATETRIS [https://qntm.org/hatetris].

Given that speed/timing is important, and the rules are designed to impede your progress, how about calling it Hurdle?

Absurdle already exists: https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html ;)

They should name it something else as absurdle is already taken.

https://qntm.org/files/absurdle/absurdle.html

Timing of SHA-256 reveals only the length of the input.

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