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48 points by mtlduo · 53 comments · 2 min read

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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!

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bennettnate5

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 :)

  • mtlduoOP

    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

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!

  • mtlduoOP

    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

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".

b-karl

Super fun, great idea and scope!

amirkhanian

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?

  • mtlduoOP

    Thanks a lot! Yes, everyone gets the same 4 rounds each day (in their own language) that's what makes the daily leaderboard

cwnyth

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.

  • mtlduoOP

    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!

rsktaker

Love the soundtrack + very, very fun

truehaley

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

  • mtlduoOP

    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

      Mobile safari has the first question of each round covered by the keyboard. The resort of the questions are correctly laid out

    • looperhacks

      Firefox on Android, sometimes the question is off screen after answering a question

looperhacks

The sloppiness shows, the performance is awful (Firefox on Pixel 8)

  • mtlduoOP

    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

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

  • mtlduoOP

    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! :)

elektor

I'm sorry but is this not just another AI remake of a very common game type?

I recall playing an identical game a few months ago, also on the HN front page.

https://www.krillion.org/

  • burkaman

    Yes this is clearly just a minor extension of Krillion, but that one was also AI-generated so it's hard to feel bad for them.

  • unsnap_biceps

    That site just opened a malware page and tried to make phone calls. I had to force kill my browser to get it to stop.

  • mtlduoOP

    Thanks you for the feedback, the concept doesn't come from Krillion or from me, there was already a game called Pointless on TV way before that, and Sky is straight up Family Feud, Past and Future are our own concepts And the graphics, even if the code and the implementation were obviously written with AI like 100% of people coding a big project today, they're human made

    • pavel_lishin

      But the Abyss mode looks almost identical to krillion - from the very concept of trying to guess rare answers, to the nautical diving theme, down to the almost-pixel-art style..?

      It's incredible to suggest that this wasn't based on either Krillion, or that both games were based on something else.

      (To be clear, I'm not accusing you of explicitly lifting the concept - but that's the problem with using AI to generate too much, it'll obviously re-use what it's seen before.)

      edit: actually, you say "A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-made" - it's just wildly improbable for the two to look and feel so similar.

    • rockostrich

      The UI and graphics are 100% just a reskin of Krillion...

dooglius

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)

  • mtlduoOP

    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

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.

wccrawford

Are there no accounts? Can I not continue playing on a different PC?

bonsai_bar

That was a lot of fun! Thank you:)

cesarvarela

Very nice visual and sound experience, congrats!

baud147258

Most wonderful fact is that 55% of people dream of visiting Paris. Of course living just next to Paris puts a damper to any desire to visit

  • mtlduoOP

    I also grew up next to Paris so I completely get it. Once you know it, it's less of a dream. Thanks a lot for your feedback :)

arm32

I love the visual aesthetic. Fun idea!

  • mtlduoOP

    Thank you so much! The pixel art took a lot of iterations, glad it shows!

TechDevar222

love it, the sound effects make it feel so immersive

  • mtlduoOP

    thank you!! Sound was a big part of the feel we wanted it's really nice to hear

wccrawford

Rarest is terrible. I absolutely know that baked ube is a street food, and way less likely to be guessed than Udon, and yet I'm penalized for nobody else guessing it yet?

I didn't even play latest and oldest, because that's just a guessing game.

  • unsnap_biceps

    Oldest is fine and fun. It's oldest in terms of when, not answers. The oldest pyramid for example.

    I agree that the rarest wasn't nearly as entertaining or fun. Perhaps that one needs a list to pick from.

Benjaminsen

Love the visual style!

l3x4ur1n

It was fun!

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