[mattdesl]

Very cool, thanks for sharing.

What would be the eventual process to make something like this decentralized so as to ensure no single party controls the server that (if I understand correctly) would set the day’s puzzles and handle verification?

[beepbooptheory]

Wouldn't setting the puzzle for the day need to be somewhat centralized, because otherwise everyone, or a lot of people, would already know the solution/not get to enjoy the puzzle?

[mattdesl]

In PoW you don’t know the next block hash; I wonder if it’s possible for this ZK word puzzle system to be somewhat like that? I suppose it would have to unlock the next puzzle as soon as somebody submits a valid solution, so it wouldn’t be playable on a day to day basis.

Maybe a less on-chain but still relatively decentralized solution for long intervals between puzzles is a chainlink VRF oracle.