Guess the ice cream flavour of the day from six clues.
Guess the ice cream flavour of the day, and the six columns will tell you how close you were.
Amber means the right family but the wrong answer, and only two columns have families. On Consistency, Smooth, Icy and Chewy make up one and Rippled, Chunky, Loaded and Layered the other. On Tradition it means the right continent.
You get six guesses, and getting there early is worth more. If you run out you still get one last pick from whatever is left standing.
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Every ice cream from the last thirty days is still here. Anything you left unfinished is waiting where you left it, and rounds you play from the archive count towards your record but will not extend your streak.
Four of the six columns are things you can answer just from having eaten the ice cream, and the other two are about where it came from. Here is what each one is actually asking.
Say you guess Vanilla and the answer turns out to be Strawberry
Two of them come back green, because both flavours are smooth the whole way through and both are old enough to have existed before freezers did. Everything else misses, since cream is not pink, creamy is not fruity, a vanilla pod is not a fruit, and France is not America.
Not every flavour can be the answer. The famous ones are left out because people tend to land on them early by accident, and the really obscure ones are left out because it would not be fair to expect anyone to come up with them. Both kinds stay in the book so you can still use them to narrow things down, which is often the smarter play anyway.
The number under the board is how many flavours could still be the answer once everything your guesses have ruled out is taken into account. It is worth watching, because a guess that halves it is usually better than a guess that might be right.
Scoring runs 15, 12, 9, 7, 5 and 3 depending on which guess you got there on. The last lick is worth a single point, and missing altogether is worth nothing.
The ice cream of the day is drawn from a fixed shuffled order by counting the days, so everyone playing this puzzle on the same day gets the same one, and it turns over at your local midnight. Nothing comes round again inside a month.
An obvious ice cream flavour missing from the game? Send it over and it will go in the book.