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Mystery-o-Matic: Solve a murder mystery every day

23 points by gaws 2y ago

gnabgib 2y ago
Discussions in: Oct/2023 (48 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37884375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37884375 Jul/2023 (111 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629195
Molitor5901 2y ago
Never could get this to work sadly, it was always overloaded.
- galapago 2y ago
  You mean the website was not loading?
devindotcom 2y ago
oddly similar to murdle https://murdle.com/ https://murdle.com/
- galapago 2y ago
  It's partially inspired by murdle, but I think it is different enough. Murdle is all about logic clue (with some small mini games like find a finger print and such). Mystery-o-matic is about temporal and spatial reasoning, with their own constrains and quirks. It's also open-source (https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io).
kouru225 2y ago
The point of this game is to make an accusation with as few pieces of evidence as possible, but in real life we'd want to do the exact opposite. Weird.
- jdlshore 2y ago
  Not sure why that seems weird to you. The fun and challenge of murder mysteries is solving the puzzle with as few hints as possible. Murder mystery games aren’t trying to emulate real life. For that, you’d want a police or legal procedural, such as Sierra’s Police Quest.
- galapago 2y ago
  I think the game tries push the player to be as efficient as possible with the information extracted from each clue. While this is true that more evidence is better in real life, it is also the case that finding and analyzing each of these takes time and effort, that need to be used efficiently.
galapago 2y ago
I'm the creator of mystery-o-matic. I'm surprised to see it in HN again (as it was previously discussed) but happy to take any questions about it. Btw, the code to produce the puzzles and the website itself is all open-source: https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io

23 points by gaws 2y ago

Discussions in: Oct/2023 (48 points, 27 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37884375 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=37884375 Jul/2023 (111 points, 66 comments) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629195 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=36629195

Molitor5901 2y ago

Never could get this to work sadly, it was always overloaded.

galapago 2y ago
You mean the website was not loading?

devindotcom 2y ago

oddly similar to murdle https://murdle.com/ https://murdle.com/

galapago 2y ago
It's partially inspired by murdle, but I think it is different enough. Murdle is all about logic clue (with some small mini games like find a finger print and such). Mystery-o-matic is about temporal and spatial reasoning, with their own constrains and quirks. It's also open-source (https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io).

kouru225 2y ago

The point of this game is to make an accusation with as few pieces of evidence as possible, but in real life we'd want to do the exact opposite. Weird.

jdlshore 2y ago
Not sure why that seems weird to you. The fun and challenge of murder mysteries is solving the puzzle with as few hints as possible. Murder mystery games aren’t trying to emulate real life. For that, you’d want a police or legal procedural, such as Sierra’s Police Quest.
galapago 2y ago
I think the game tries push the player to be as efficient as possible with the information extracted from each clue. While this is true that more evidence is better in real life, it is also the case that finding and analyzing each of these takes time and effort, that need to be used efficiently.

galapago 2y ago

I'm the creator of mystery-o-matic. I'm surprised to see it in HN again (as it was previously discussed) but happy to take any questions about it. Btw, the code to produce the puzzles and the website itself is all open-source: https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io https://github.com/mystery-o-matic/mystery-o-matic.github.io