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Ripple, a puzzle game about 2nd and 3rd order effects
- ToolboxPro 10mo ago[dead]
- mrgoldenbrown 10mo agoI would call this a history quiz, not a puzzle. The "ripples" are not deducible from the info given.
- LorenPechtel 10mo agoDisagree. I just tried it--yes, I knew the history but I would have predicted those results anyway.
- John7878781 10mo agoI wonder if this could be used to gauge someone's optimism/pessimism.
- 4ggr0 10mo agoi'm sold, but please add a historic or archive mode, i need more...
- TuringTest 10mo agoCame here to say the same. The game tastes as too little with just one question; when you get the gist of how it works, it's over.
- nick238 10mo agoI pulled out the data that I could see; strangely it seems to be the 16th question but the page shows "#736" Data as JSON: https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2b65061065 https://gist.github.com/nicktimko/fb48810b448275a4d7817e2b65... Or if you want to download it yourself (yay for Gemini giving me a Node one-liner to parse a JS object to get JSON. Beware it uses `eval`!!!) curl -sSL https://ripplegame.app/assets/index-B2aU9M_o.js | \ grep -E -o -p "\[\{id:1\,.+\"}]}]" | \ node -e "const vm=require('vm'); let b=''; process.stdin.on('data',d=>b+=d).on('end',()=> { try { const script=new vm.Script('('+b+')'); console.log(JSON.stringify(script.runInNewContext({}),null,2)) } catch(e) { console.error('Invalid JS') } })"
- ReaLNero 10mo agoTry this: https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/ https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/
- 4ggr0 10mo agoperfect, thanks :) amusing to play a bootlegged version of a free game...
- frenchmajesty 10mo agoCool concept! However, the fact that it's on a timer and you can only try the next even in 1m is a killer feature (in a not-good way). Same for not being able to view the leaderboard
- em-bee 10mo agoi get "next puzzle in 3.5 hours" WAT? it's interesting, but i'd like to play a dozen questions in my 5 minute break, not just one.
- nialv7 10mo agoThis kind of smells LLM, which is fine. But I do want to see the facts backed by citations.
- Mistletoe 10mo agoDoes it only have one example? Really would like more.
- gfysfm 10mo agoThis is really cool! It's interesting that you can "cheat" by knowing the historical situation in advance. But I guess there's no way around that - if the situations involved were hypothetical, it would be unsatisfying when you guessed "wrong". It'd be neat to see really obscure examples drawn from history.
- HauntingPin 10mo agoThis is cool but it needs to be bingeable to really make it big. I don't think this works as a Wordle once a day kind of thing. I was going to send it to a non-tech friend who'd love it, but decided against it once I saw the 23 hour timer. She would've hated me.
- ReaLNero 10mo agoTry this: https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/ https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/
- HauntingPin 10mo agoIs this a non-limited version? After finishing a ripple, it could really use a "Random" button that lets you easily continue with another ripple, just so people can directly keep going.
- ReaLNero 10mo agoYeah, just switch to level 1 in the level switcher! You should be able to go thru them all by just clicking next puzzle after that
- fn-mote 10mo agoCute, but you can do only one day at a time. I would have had to like it more to be motivated to bookmark it and come back tomorrow.
- jrowen 10mo agoIdk the intended demographic but it felt too easy or even heavy-handed. Three of the four options in each round sound like "and everyone lived happily ever after." Only one sounds like something that would happen in real life and continue the story.
- noduerme 10mo agoFor the 18th Amendment, we can probably mostly agree on what happened. But it only works because the wrong answers are very obviously wrong (and virtually impossible). But that forces you into answering along the path which is clearly not as wrong, even though it's full of vague sweeping generalizations. There were many small time bootleggers, for instance. I think it's a crummy idea to reduce history this way - who are you trying to teach a lesson, and why should someone trust that your interpretation of the chain of events is accurate?
- mirekrusin 10mo agoYou mean GPT’s, right?
- paxys 10mo agoI leave this comment whenever a new game with this "one game a day" model pops up: You are not Wordle. You are never going to recreate the virality of of Wordle. The artificial restriction on gameplay does not help you because 99.999% of your users are going to play it and move on rather than bookmark your site, set a reminder and come back the next day. Instead let them play a bunch of games NOW and they may get hooked.
- ReaLNero 10mo agoTry this: https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/ https://vladimirtech-eng.github.io/ripple-mirror/
- Aboutplants 10mo agoPivot this to be a history learning app, I find this kind of learning to be addictive.
- DecoPerson 10mo agoToo much speculation. Take the 18th amendment one. Maybe prohibition did have the desired effects, in addition to the undesirable side effects. The two are not mutually exclusive.
- kittikitti 10mo agoWhat are the second and third order effects of the CIA capturing Maduro?
- dmichulke 10mo agoIncreased security for "unapproved" leaders of a state. Allies will help out of fear instead of common goals. Resentment among allies. Appeasement until counter control is effective
- DocTomoe 10mo agoFasttracking WMD programs up to and including nuclear for country leaders who are feeling a bit too 'abductable' for comfort.
- bgbntty2 10mo agoWhy can I only play #736? What's up with games nowadays that only give you 1 puzzle per day? IIRC the original Wordle was like that. Is it designed to make you bookmark the URL and visit it every day? I doubt most people would do that.
- dzink 10mo agoThe time delay is a dark pattern, the questions are too easy, and the login for leaderboard would makes sense if users could do longer question sequences with escalating difficulty. I would do this as a tree of possible consequences instead - let people share a red path most people would choose and a green path that should be chosen as the desirable outcome. See what shows up.
- chii 10mo ago> I would do this as a tree of possible consequences instead Games like Detroid:Become Human has a good UI for showing the decisions, and outcomes (as well as unexplored ones in grey). https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=2162781882 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=21627...
- jsmo 10mo agoNice!
- lurk2 10mo ago> Next puzzle in 4 hours What is the point of this? I’m not going to return to a site with a cooldown timer after using it once.
- dmichulke 10mo agoI just played one (can iI play any of the past ones?) But this should be mandatory game-theoretic education for politicians (if it really is what I think it is).
- verisimi 10mo agoIt's as if this can be known in advance. And that the most acceptable reason/justification is provided (terrorists, child abuse prevention) knowing the likely result at the end of the cascade (security cameras, restrictions, de-anonymised internet).
- blue1 10mo agoUnusable on iphone SE, the UI is cropped on the bottom and cannot be scrolled.
- agnishom 10mo agoWhile this could (today's instance was not particularly mind blowing) be interesting, I don't like the idea of calling a trivia based on historical facts a puzzle
- ivolimmen 10mo agoIt seems I know more about American history than I thought. Cool puzzle.
- derekh3 10mo agoI wanted more and didn't want to wait so I asked Claude (Opus 4.5) to make me a game in this style with 40 new scenarios. https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0bed2bde-9d0c-442f-a76a-ff3501e46d86 https://claude.ai/public/artifacts/0bed2bde-9d0c-442f-a76a-f...
- ggfdh 10mo agoI’d see if you can find examples from outside the US or in lesser known fields—economics must have some great examples. Great idea and great UI!
- dannyfritz07 10mo agoFirefox won't let me view it because it says the connection is insecure. Not sure what is happening.