A five-letter daily word puzzle where the green and yellow clues secretly describe the opposite of the answer, crack the antonym, then type its opposite.
You have six tries to guess a hidden five-letter target word. The trick: each guess is colour-graded against the target's antonym, not the target itself. So the clues point you toward the opposite word, deduce that antonym, then type its opposite to win.
Six guesses at a hidden five-letter word with colour-graded feedback is Wordle, created by the Welsh engineer Josh Wardle and released publicly in October 2021 — itself, by its author's account, inspired by Mastermind, and with an older pen-and-paper cousin in Jotto.
The original twist is that your guesses are graded against the target's antonym rather than the target.
That inserts a second puzzle inside the first. The letters tell you about a word you do not want, so solving the grid only gets you halfway — you then have to know the opposite, and English opposites are rarely clean, which is where the difficulty actually lives.
Antonymle is an original spin on the letter-grid deduction genre, swapping straight word-guessing for an antonym layer that makes you think in opposites. It is a free daily browser game built in-house for PlayPendium.