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.<p>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.
The wording of the questions really impacts the AI answers. For the elevator one,<p>"Did Colin start on a lower floor than 6 to start?" "Yes"<p>"Did Colin Press the up button on the elevator?" "I don't know"
I tried several of these but never really got see the lateral thinking because the solutions were trivial on the first guess. It feels like no effort went into the contents of the mysteries themselves and they were sourced using AI.<p>Which is to say, that they're all extremely shop-worn cliches. I think this shows the false allure of the AI product. The creator's low standards for content take what could be something interesting and a perfectly nice looking site and turns it into something which only superficially appears to be interesting but has no value.<p>I've noticed this a lot with AI-based products: even their creators don't find the experience good, but they are imagining there exists an audience which doesn't value graphics <i>and</i> doesn't value the written word.