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Posted by passkey1510 12 hours ago

Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie(uncracked.city)
To give you some context on the project. I'm a solo founder and I use AI heavily in my work. The idea came from wanting players to discover cities. Each city has its own history, so every case is set in a real city with real public places. The crime and the people are on other hand invented. The part that I care most is the playable aspect of the game, a model plays the detective and must solve the case before it goes live.

As of today: it's free on Android, the iOS version is still waiting to be reviewed by Apple. It's available in six popular languages, but adding more languages is just a matter of time and demand.My long term vision if it takes off: weekly cases, private parties like a team-building escape game, an MCP so a game master can build their own scenario from ChatGPT or Claude, and maybe tourism offices since players travel the world.

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patrickskim 3 hours ago|
haha very neat! Just curious how are you planning to make it free with the inference cost? Even with a luna or haiku its still a non zero cost to run per session.
loloquwowndueo 6 hours ago||
Talking to lying LLMs is what I do all day for work. Can’t imagine I’d want to do the same in my free time.
hxugufjfjf 4 hours ago|
Same. Also, staring at a screen.
mikepurvis 3 hours ago||
I wonder if you could do it all over voice, say while alone in the car.
dgellow 1 hour ago||
I think you should disclose on the website that the game is using LLMs
krembo 1 hour ago||
I enjoy asking ai to play with me Where in the World Is Carmen Sandiego. You can ask for different variations, difficult levels and ask it to add images.
cauenapier 1 hour ago|
My first thought as well! In less then a second, when I saw the Map with the airplane line I remembered Carmen Sandiego! What a good memory!
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