r/wordplay

Hi, I made this one. I've played Wordle-likes for years and always wanted to build my own, but I never had an idea that felt like mine.

The push came from a strange place. Half of what I read these days is written by AI, and it's never short. Every email, every doc, twelve words where five would do. At some point I said the phrase out loud, long story short, and realised it was a game.

So: you get a twelve-word sentence. You rephrase it in exactly five of its own words. Real English, same meaning, your job is to work out which words carry the sentence and which are just dressed up to look important. Scoring is Wordle style, blue for right word in the right spot, orange for in the answer but elsewhere, grey for out. Five tries, one sentence a day.

My wife and my brother were the playtesters. An early version let "the" beat proper words in the answer, which felt awful to lose to, so the answers now always favour the concrete word. That one change ate a whole weekend.

Update: it has dawned on me I need to put something on both sides of the sign. I still only have 2 N letters and 1 T letter

It is this: Part as tip? It's a trap!

Thought I'd throw it out here in case anyone wants to add to it, build from it, or throw up some new ones.

Offerings must be synonymous, and either:

Rhyme (Swift and Miffed),

Alliterate (Quick and Cross),

Or both (Accelerated and Aggravated)

I’m at a loss with trying to come up with a 3-6 word “catchphrase” for my wedding. Last name is desirae. Any ideas ??