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Show HN: I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia

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316 points jasonsmiles | 4 comments | 17 Oct 25 15:34 UTC | HN request time: 0s | source

Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
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chrysoprace ◴[21 Oct 25 04:40 UTC] No.45652526[source]▶
Cool game, but when I was doing the map game it gave me the same article about 5 times.

It's also not clear if there's a goal in each game. So far as I can tell it goes on forever.

Edit: both the lock and dial game modes put me into the same dial game mode; I'm going to guess it's a bug. They also seem to be for the same article.

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1. jakeydus ◴[21 Oct 25 13:19 UTC] No.45655422[source]▶
Same here! I got the Parthenon five or so times. On the bright side, I know very well now that the Parthenon is not actually in Athens!
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2. dwringer ◴[21 Oct 25 13:43 UTC] No.45655722[source]▶
It is, though? I also had the same map come up about five times, showing a picture of the Parthenon and the Athenian acropolis, but it consistently insisted that these were of Orchomenos, which also had an acropolis but AFAIK is not the same; they are about 80 miles apart.
3. djeastm ◴[21 Oct 25 14:19 UTC] No.45656157[source]▶
It's not?
4. jakeydus ◴[21 Oct 25 15:56 UTC] No.45657355[source]▶
edit: it appears that Orchomenus also has an area of the city that Wikipedia refers to as the acropolis; I'm wondering if the game pulls the acropolis data from the Athenian Acropolis but then mistakenly attributes it to Orchomenus? I thought it might be because some great physics discovery was made there (given the daily challenge genre) but I haven't seen anything.