Have one set of candidates with no knowledge of the current day's New York Times Wordle puzzle try to guess the answer (perhaps allow them two or three guesses, to counter any internal delinquency, or “being in two minds” and not listening to intuition), with no feedback about success or failure, unlike the real puzzle.
As the (US) day progresses, more and more non-participating people will discover the correct answer or, if they fail the puzzle, will be told the correct answer.
A second group of candidates could also attempt to guess the answer to the same day's puzzle, but the day before, so the answer would not be “floating in the air” at that time.
The guesses could be scored with so many points for a correct letter in the wrong place, in the right place, or a miss.
Note
Note, that in the real puzzle, some words have a better chance of reducing the number of remaining possibilities, but using the same word would overcome this issue.
Image
Image: Wordle 196 example / Josh Wardle (website/game), Berrely (vectorizing) / Wikimedia Commons / Public domain.
