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A command-line murder mystery (2014)

137 points by smartmic 3y ago

asynchronous 3y ago
Sounds fun having to do it in a terminal.
syntaxing 3y ago
Has anyone played this? I love mystery board games and this seems pretty fun.
- defective 3y ago
  I've been playing it for 20 minutes. It's fun so far.
- pwmtr 3y ago
  Just solved the mystery. It was quite fun.
mr_00ff00 3y ago
Command-line murder mystery is just every segmentation fault
- moffkalast 3y ago
  That's more like a visit from jack the ripper. Not a shred of evidence left behind.
  - kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
    Wait til ol' Jack get's tripped up by core.
dang 3y ago
Related: A command-line murder mystery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834466 - Aug 2019 (1 comment) The Command Line Murders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885 - Jan 2016 (60 comments) A command-line murder mystery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054598 - Jan 2014 (47 comments)
- dredmorbius 3y ago
  Also <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885> (60 comments, 2016), via URL rather than title search.
  - dang 3y ago
    Added. Thanks!
irrational 3y ago
I have a teenage son that is thinking about becoming a programmer. I've been teaching him some things like the command line, git, etc. Would someone with just a starting familiarity with the command line be able to play the game?
- pwmtr 3y ago
  cat, head, tail, piping and lots of grep is enough to solve the mystery. It might require reading --help pages though if he is not familiar with some of the options of these commands, which would be quite educational anyway. So I'd say go for it!
  - circularfoyers 3y ago
    The included cheatsheet includes a fair bit and all the recommended tools you'd need to solve the mystery.
abetusk 3y ago
That was fun. Very reminiscent of sys admin bug hunting/maintenance. I do wish they cleaned up the input. Not nice opening one of the files and seeing a racial slur.
throw0101c 3y ago
See also perhaps the git commit murder Series by Michael Warren Lucas: * https://www.goodreads.com/series/321508-git-commit-murder https://www.goodreads.com/series/321508-git-commit-murder * https://mwl.io/fiction/crime#gcm https://mwl.io/fiction/crime#gcm * https://mwl.io/fiction https://mwl.io/fiction
RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago
Typing vim is like deciding to explore the tunnels under the city. A very fascinating and useful experience, but you may have a little trouble exiting.
leonim 3y ago
The VisiData developers created a fun multi-part data wrangling puzzle last year called the Hanukkah of Data [1]. It is not specific to any tool, so you can use command line tools, the TUI data explorer VisiData[2] or whatever data tools you want to solve the puzzle in your terminal. [1] https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/ https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/ [2] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata https://github.com/saulpw/visidata
gorgoiler 3y ago
Forget everything you learned in school, rookie. Your real training begins today. You want to use your fancy coreutils and crack this case the glamorous way, or do you want to make your arrest quota for the month and keep your job? $ grep -ir confess interviews/ And if that doesn’t work: $ echo “I, John Doe of $address, of sound state of mind confess to the killing of…” >interviews/interview-$RANDOM Take him away, boys!
GhostWhisperer 3y ago
sql version: https://github.com/NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries https://github.com/NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries

137 points by smartmic 3y ago

asynchronous 3y ago

Sounds fun having to do it in a terminal.

syntaxing 3y ago

Has anyone played this? I love mystery board games and this seems pretty fun.

defective 3y ago
I've been playing it for 20 minutes. It's fun so far.
pwmtr 3y ago
Just solved the mystery. It was quite fun.

mr_00ff00 3y ago

Command-line murder mystery is just every segmentation fault

moffkalast 3y ago
That's more like a visit from jack the ripper. Not a shred of evidence left behind.
- kevin_thibedeau 3y ago
  Wait til ol' Jack get's tripped up by core.

dang 3y ago

Related: A command-line murder mystery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834466 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20834466 - Aug 2019 (1 comment) The Command Line Murders - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885 - Jan 2016 (60 comments) A command-line murder mystery - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054598 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7054598 - Jan 2014 (47 comments)

dredmorbius 3y ago
Also <https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=10994885> (60 comments, 2016), via URL rather than title search.
- dang 3y ago
  Added. Thanks!

irrational 3y ago

I have a teenage son that is thinking about becoming a programmer. I've been teaching him some things like the command line, git, etc. Would someone with just a starting familiarity with the command line be able to play the game?

pwmtr 3y ago
cat, head, tail, piping and lots of grep is enough to solve the mystery. It might require reading --help pages though if he is not familiar with some of the options of these commands, which would be quite educational anyway. So I'd say go for it!
- circularfoyers 3y ago
  The included cheatsheet includes a fair bit and all the recommended tools you'd need to solve the mystery.

abetusk 3y ago

That was fun. Very reminiscent of sys admin bug hunting/maintenance. I do wish they cleaned up the input. Not nice opening one of the files and seeing a racial slur.

throw0101c 3y ago

See also perhaps the git commit murder Series by Michael Warren Lucas: * https://www.goodreads.com/series/321508-git-commit-murder https://www.goodreads.com/series/321508-git-commit-murder * https://mwl.io/fiction/crime#gcm https://mwl.io/fiction/crime#gcm * https://mwl.io/fiction https://mwl.io/fiction

RcouF1uZ4gsC 3y ago

Typing vim is like deciding to explore the tunnels under the city. A very fascinating and useful experience, but you may have a little trouble exiting.

leonim 3y ago

The VisiData developers created a fun multi-part data wrangling puzzle last year called the Hanukkah of Data [1]. It is not specific to any tool, so you can use command line tools, the TUI data explorer VisiData[2] or whatever data tools you want to solve the puzzle in your terminal. [1] https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/ https://hanukkah.bluebird.sh/5783/ [2] https://github.com/saulpw/visidata https://github.com/saulpw/visidata

gorgoiler 3y ago

Forget everything you learned in school, rookie. Your real training begins today. You want to use your fancy coreutils and crack this case the glamorous way, or do you want to make your arrest quota for the month and keep your job? $ grep -ir confess interviews/ And if that doesn’t work: $ echo “I, John Doe of $address, of sound state of mind confess to the killing of…” >interviews/interview-$RANDOM Take him away, boys!

GhostWhisperer 3y ago

sql version: https://github.com/NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries https://github.com/NUKnightLab/sql-mysteries