I saw your Show HN post a few weeks ago! Really appreciate the smoothness of your UI and the simplicity of your onboarding, I see how much you have dialed in. I've been working on a daily puzzle game too (it's getting there...), maybe you'd enjoy it https://slab17.com/

Slab 17 is a really interesting and unique puzzle! I love the act of slab creation. It’s very satisfying and the aesthetics are great.

I found the instruction about double tapping a little confusing at first but figured it out as I played.

Nice work!

Thanks for the note and the feedback about the instructions! Got me to rework the wording.

Very cool!

I solved the first puzzle: -Congratulations! -You solved Paprika with 18 slabs

But this was unclear: -You've solved 0 puzzles! -Reveal Rule -Next Puzzle -View Archive -You still have 2 guesses left. Finish guessing before revealing the rule if you're feeling brave!

I have to do 2 more guesses before I can reveal the rule that I already figured out?

Thanks for the note! This part needs work and I really appreciate the call out. I'll try to explain here to share, and maybe clarify my own thinking.

Getting any of the guesses right counts as a win, and you get different guessing slabs for each guess (this latter part isn't made at all clear upfront).

If you have a rule in your head like "no red", but the true rule is "no red or orange", it's possible that on the guessing slabs those two rules evaluate to the same things (e.g. there weren't any oranges present in the guessing slabs). You could then try the rest of the guessing slabs, which might have an example where you get it wrong, giving more gameplay.

I wanted to give a victory on any subset of 5 slabs guessed successfully since trying to get all the guesses is very hard (especially the first guess on many puzzles), and you can get new information from guesses which fail, which offers some progression. Hence getting "you won" and the ability to reveal the rule (I've also thought about keeping the reveal unavailable until you do all guesses) and the invitation to keep playing.

If you have a minute I'd love to hear from you if that makes sense and if you have thoughts about what might make more sense. I've also tried to consider ways of restructuring the gameplay, e.g. automatically progressing to the next set of guessing slabs, such that the flow here is less confusing.

Thanks for playing, and for sharing!

That makes sense.

Maybe just simply state it?

E.g, instead of “you solved paprika”:

“You got 5 slabs right; 10 more to prove you really solved the rule”

(Being better versed in making games than I am, you can likely come up with more enticing prose)

Appreciate the reply, this is simpler than my thinking and I like it!

I loved that handheld as a kid! I was discovering how powerful vibecoding was last year and used this exact game to show some friends https://drive.google.com/file/d/1jVLpVfUWDkdgImLo45VDtroB-EZ...

One other variant that I've made in the past is cells have N states which increment and cycle mod N.

The results of the categories look similar to what happens when prompting ChatGPT with "describe a list of {genres/moods/etc.} for <content>". Also the links are all for query pages on amazon/spotify/etc, which says LLM to me (rather than a database). This dynamic schema generation -> UI supported query builder seems like a really interesting direction. I'd love to see it for the web more generally and I bet Exa.ai+LLM of choice would be a pretty good place to start. If it's an LLM I'm curious about hallucination rates and excited for future web-level RAG in only returning real objects.

Also you can supply content which doesn't exist and it will automatically infer genre and such (another strong indication of LLM). I.e. you can imagine the aesthetics of the kind of content you might want by title and then use the UI to explore real recs related to that.

PS to the creator: I love the simplicity of the design and the execution is inspiring. Sent a dollar for my searches :-)

You are spot on :) - including about potential additional and broader use cases for this kind of UI. Hoping I can explore that more. Thanks for the tip about Exa.ai!

Also, I'm sincerely flattered that you like the design and execution. Thank you for that and for your contribution!

I just made a very similar game a couple weeks ago, but with a couple key differences which make the experience very different:

1. You start the game with someone you know 2. You know that the first 5 messages you each send are authored by the other person 3. After 5 messages each, the "You are a bot!" button becomes active, and at some random point after that, the players get split so they are instead each talking to a bot.

The time pressure of when to consider pressing the button really changes the psychological aspect, as does having a lead-in transcript for the bot to try to impersonate your friend. As others have mentioned, an incentive to have people be more human would be great -- in a tournament setting I'd like to see this implemented where if someone guesses prematurely then they get -1 while the other player gets 0, whereas guessing correctly gives +1 to the guesser and 0 to the other.

Anyway, my prompting and the game could definitely use work, but for anyone who wants to try it out: https://artifice.games/ The game is called Bot or Not, after you create the game have your friend hit join a game and use the 4 letter room code.

Yeah, nice idea, but I'm not going to give you my email address to try out a game.

Will also add I've won 7 of 7 so far by using only emojis.