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Posted by mtlduo 2 days ago

Show HN: Wonderhop – A daily game: guess what most people say, or what none do(wonderhop.io)
Hello HN!

Wonderhop is a small browser game with no account needed to play, everyday there are 4 rounds of 7 quesitons like "Name a food that a lot of people hate" The goal depends on the mode: Either gives the answer most people would give, the one no one would give, the oldest answer or the most recent one and there's a leaderboard for the day.

The most interesting part of the project was understanding answers that are typed freely and in 10 languages, there was some typos, plurals, nickname, or even duplicate way of sayign the same thing. We needed AI judge that checks it really existes conencted to some API like wikipedia to judge the veracity of each answer really quickly (less than 1s on average)

The percentage starts from an estimate but move really fast with the answers of real players. If the list missed a good answer, it gets added as soon as a few different players give it.

(There are also a lot of secrets and pop culture references added in the game :) )

A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-made

We'd love to know if the goal is clear from the very first question while playing and were any good answers rejected unfairly

We are a couple of developers from Montreal that like guessing games so we built this in about two month.

Thanks a lot!

40 points | 48 comments
bennettnate5 55 minutes ago|
I was playing the "Future" section and put "Milliway's" from The Hitchhiker's Guide series when it asked for a fictional restaurant; it only gave me 10 points and said it was from 70s. Milliways is very explicitly positioned in time at the end of the universe, so I should've been awarded maximum points there :)
mtlduo 51 minutes ago|
Hi thanks for the feedback! In Past and Future, what counts is when the thing first came out, not when the story takes place, so Milliways counts as 1978 (the radio series). I agree it's not obvious with sci-fi though o I think I'll add a mention somewhere
jwstillwater 2 days ago||
This was so fun! What a delight, thank you. After the first round I wanted to keep playing, so habitually I just tapped whichever button that most closely resembled ‘play again’, and it took me a couple questions to understand that it was a different mode. Maybe putting “type the OLDEST answer”, or “the deepest cut” above the prompt box would help.

Also the model’s feedback was surprisingly astute! I expected “incorrect”, but got “Help was a top-selling Beatles album, but it sold under 20 million copies.” Love learning during games.

Great work, the lot of you!

mtlduo 2 days ago|
Thank you so much for your message, it's really encouraging to read, and it means a lot to us!

Good point about the mode switch. My girlfriend actually warned me about it, and I told her it wouldn't be a problem but she was right haha.

We'll take your advice and give it a clearer name.

And I'm really glad you liked the feedback. Thanks again for playing! :)

knownandunknown 1 hour ago||
Fun game! But it looks like matching has a bug:

The question was "Name something that's expensive when travelling" in the most common answer category.

I wrote "tickets", meaning plane tickets, and it categorized my answer as "Entrance fees (you)" instead of the top answer of "Plane ticket".

amirkhanian 1 hour ago||
Love the "what none do" twist, I bet my first instinct would always be the most popular answer. Is it the same question for everyone each day?
mtlduo 1 hour ago|
Thanks a lot! Yes, everyone gets the same 4 rounds each day (in their own language) that's what makes the daily leaderboard
amirkhanian 1 hour ago||
Is it possible to see how many people are playing today?
mtlduo 1 hour ago||
Yes! You can see the Leaderboard it shows how many people played each mode today
cwnyth 5 hours ago||
Plenty of good answers were rejected, especially where typos were concerned. On the coffee shop question, CK's coffee shop wasn't found and Waffle House was rejected, but Paul's was a top answer? Paul's also serves breakfast food. Seems arbitrary. Memphis Colosseum was rejected probably because the proper spelling is Coliseum. But how could it not find it from "Memphis Colosseum"? It's easily found (and the spelling corrected) in Google Search.
mtlduo 4 hours ago|
Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! Most answers are first checked against a fixed list, to avoid making too many LLM calls. Unfortunately, for latency and playability reasons, we can't do much deeper online searches: every call would cost a lot and take too long. So about 1 to 1.5% of answers end up judged a bit unfairly, but we're actively working on improving the model. Thanks again for your feedback!
k33P1Tr3aL 4 hours ago||
queue jev...
truehaley 1 day ago||
Lots of fun, but one really annoying bug that makes it hard to play: anytime I have an answer that isn’t accepted, and then go to type in a new answer, the keyboard completely covers the text box which makes it impossible to delete or edit the previous answer! Safari on IOS 26.6.2
mtlduo 1 day ago|
Thank you so much for reporting this bug! It should be fixed now, let me know if it still happens. Thanks again for playing! :)
unsnap_biceps 3 hours ago|||
Mobile safari has the first question of each round covered by the keyboard. The resort of the questions are correctly laid out
looperhacks 4 hours ago|||
Firefox on Android, sometimes the question is off screen after answering a question
looperhacks 4 hours ago||
The sloppiness shows, the performance is awful (Firefox on Pixel 8)
mtlduo 3 hours ago|
Thanks a lot for the feedback chrome tells the page exactly where the keyboard is and firefox doesn't... and in that case my layout keeps the question above the visible area. I'll try to fix it Thank again!
piperswe 2 days ago||
I love that I could justify my answer to it - spoiler below

I chose CompuServe for oldest file sharing service, and it told me that it was an online service not a cloud file hosting service. I then answered "CompuServe had file sharing" and I received 100pts

mtlduo 1 day ago|
I'm really glad you liked it! That's one of the big advantages of using LLMs instead of relying on a fixed list of answers. Thanks so much for playing! :)
dooglius 2 days ago||
The agent is too helpful, I got away with stuff like "The one with the southmost shinkansen" for rarest Japanese city, which it substituted for the answer to that (which I didn't know)
mtlduo 2 days ago|
I see, thanks a lot for the feedback! That's a real hack of my LLM haha, I'll fix it within the hour!
garah 2 days ago|
Just tried this on my phone and had fun. Got 260/700 in Sky — somehow “peanuts” and “Michael Jackson” were my only perfect answers lol.
mtlduo 2 days ago|
Thanks for trying it garah!
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