Show HN: Detective Stories -Lateral thinking detective game with Deepseek player
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·February 9, 2025emurph55
jsnell
It tends to reveal a lot of extra information, even when you're playing it straight rather than trying to trick the AI.
Like, when you ask the "does the reason the window is open matter?"-style questions that should be bread and butter for this kind of game it'll often go beyond a "YES" into "YES, the reason the window is open provides crucial context to what they were thinking". The worst case was me asking whether somebody died via foul play, and the AI answered "NO. Your question is whether he was intentionally killed rather than it being a <spoiler> accident".
unsnap_biceps
The wording of the questions really impacts the AI answers. For the elevator one,
"Did Colin start on a lower floor than 6 to start?" "Yes"
"Did Colin Press the up button on the elevator?" "I don't know"
s2th4d
What’s Wrong? “I don’t know”
I have had this lateral thinking game online for a while. The jist of the game is that one player asks a "host" a series of questions in order to reach a full understanding of what happened in a story, based on an initial premise.
I have tried in the past at adding AI players but could never get reliable answers. However, as AI has improved, I decided to give it another go. At the moment it is connected to deepseek v3 with some basic prompts, and it looks to handle the task pretty well. Not yet perfect but it definitely does form an impressive understanding of the stories, and the game itself.