Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie
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To give you some context on the project. I'm a solo founder and I use AI heavily in my work. The idea came from wanting players to discover cities. Each city has its own history, so every case is set in a real city with real public places. The crime and the people are on other hand invented. The part that I care most is the playable aspect of the game, a model plays the detective and must solve the case before it goes live. As of today: it's free on Android, the iOS version is still waiting to…
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Show HN: Uncracked City, detective game where you question LLM suspects that lie was first seen on Hacker News · Front page on Nov 4, 2026. Since then it has appeared in 150 checks on 5 different days, across 3 lists (Hacker News · Front page, Hacker News · Show HN, Hacker News · Show HN · this week). Its best position was #15 of 29, reached on Nov 4, 16:22 UTC. It dropped off the list after Nov 8, 15:50 UTC.
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| List | Best | Days | Checks | Last seen |
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| Hacker News · Front page | #15 | 1 | 57 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN | #5 | 1 | 13 | |
| Hacker News · Show HN · this week | #13 | 4 | 80 |
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I’m just curious, are you old enough to have been inspired by Where in the World is Carmen Sandiego? That was my first thought when reading this. I loved the computer game growing up and I wanted to be on the game show so bad.
This looks very interesting, but the Italian copy on the website is poorly translated. For instance, nobody would write an explanation of what you need to do speaking to the player in the courtesy third person (Perquisisca i luoghi, Smascheri la bugia). Other sentences are written poorly, for instance "Nel gioco,…
When I was growing up there was a wonderfully made interactive “novel” game on early Macintosh called Sherlock Holmes. I’ve always wondered when we’ll get to a point where this can be done ad-hoc with any potential crime thriller. LA Noir introduced nuanced facial movements and dialog chains but I keep going back to…
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Not at the moment. It was last on the list on Nov 8, 15:50 UTC, after 5 days of trending.
#15 on Hacker News · Front page, on Nov 4, 16:22 UTC. Trendoday checks this list every 15 minutes.
It was first seen on Nov 4, 2026 and has been on the list on 5 days (150 checks) since.
127 points and 69 comments; submitted by passkey1510 on Nov 3, 2026.