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Hello HN!Wonderhop is a small browser game with no account needed to play, everyday there are 4 rounds of 7 quesitons like "Name a food that a lot of people hate" The goal depends on the mode: Either gives the answer most people would give, the one no one would give, the oldest answer or the most recent one and there's a leaderboard for the day.The most interesting part of the project was understanding answers that are typed freely and in 10 languages, there was some typos, plurals, nickname, or even duplicate way of sayign the same thing. We needed AI judge that checks it really existes conencted to some API like wikipedia to judge the veracity of each answer really quickly (less than 1s on average)The percentage starts from an estimate but move really fast with the answers of real players. If the list missed a good answer, it gets added as soon as a few different players give it.(There are also a lot of secrets and pop culture references added in the game :) )A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-madeWe'd love to know if the goal is clear from the very first question while playing and were any good answers rejected unfairlyWe are a couple of developers from Montreal that like guessing games so we built this in about two month.Thanks a lot!

41 points by mtlduo - 50 comments

50 Comments

jwstillwater [3 hidden]5 mins ago
This was so fun! What a delight, thank you. After the first round I wanted to keep playing, so habitually I just tapped whichever button that most closely resembled ‘play again’, and it took me a couple questions to understand that it was a different mode. Maybe putting “type the OLDEST answer”, or “the deepest cut” above the prompt box would help.

Also the model’s feedback was surprisingly astute! I expected “incorrect”, but got “Help was a top-selling Beatles album, but it sold under 20 million copies.” Love learning during games.

Great work, the lot of you!

mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thank you so much for your message, it's really encouraging to read, and it means a lot to us!

Good point about the mode switch. My girlfriend actually warned me about it, and I told her it wouldn't be a problem but she was right haha.

We'll take your advice and give it a clearer name.

And I'm really glad you liked the feedback. Thanks again for playing! :)

bennettnate5 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I was playing the "Future" section and put "Milliway's" from The Hitchhiker's Guide series when it asked for a fictional restaurant; it only gave me 10 points and said it was from 70s. Milliways is very explicitly positioned in time at the end of the universe, so I should've been awarded maximum points there :)
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Hi thanks for the feedback! In Past and Future, what counts is when the thing first came out, not when the story takes place, so Milliways counts as 1978 (the radio series). I agree it's not obvious with sci-fi though o I think I'll add a mention somewhere
rsktaker [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Love the soundtrack + very, very fun
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks a lot!! Really glad you liked the soundtrack :)
knownandunknown [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Fun game! But it looks like matching has a bug:

The question was "Name something that's expensive when travelling" in the most common answer category.

I wrote "tickets", meaning plane tickets, and it categorized my answer as "Entrance fees (you)" instead of the top answer of "Plane ticket".

amirkhanian [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Love the "what none do" twist, I bet my first instinct would always be the most popular answer. Is it the same question for everyone each day?
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks a lot! Yes, everyone gets the same 4 rounds each day (in their own language) that's what makes the daily leaderboard
amirkhanian [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Is it possible to see how many people are playing today?
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yes! You can see the Leaderboard it shows how many people played each mode today
cwnyth [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Plenty of good answers were rejected, especially where typos were concerned. On the coffee shop question, CK's coffee shop wasn't found and Waffle House was rejected, but Paul's was a top answer? Paul's also serves breakfast food. Seems arbitrary. Memphis Colosseum was rejected probably because the proper spelling is Coliseum. But how could it not find it from "Memphis Colosseum"? It's easily found (and the spelling corrected) in Google Search.
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Hey, thanks a lot for the feedback! Most answers are first checked against a fixed list, to avoid making too many LLM calls. Unfortunately, for latency and playability reasons, we can't do much deeper online searches: every call would cost a lot and take too long. So about 1 to 1.5% of answers end up judged a bit unfairly, but we're actively working on improving the model. Thanks again for your feedback!
k33P1Tr3aL [3 hidden]5 mins ago
queue jev...
truehaley [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Lots of fun, but one really annoying bug that makes it hard to play: anytime I have an answer that isn’t accepted, and then go to type in a new answer, the keyboard completely covers the text box which makes it impossible to delete or edit the previous answer! Safari on IOS 26.6.2
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thank you so much for reporting this bug! It should be fixed now, let me know if it still happens. Thanks again for playing! :)
unsnap_biceps [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Mobile safari has the first question of each round covered by the keyboard. The resort of the questions are correctly laid out
looperhacks [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Firefox on Android, sometimes the question is off screen after answering a question
looperhacks [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The sloppiness shows, the performance is awful (Firefox on Pixel 8)
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks a lot for the feedback chrome tells the page exactly where the keyboard is and firefox doesn't... and in that case my layout keeps the question above the visible area. I'll try to fix it Thank again!
piperswe [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love that I could justify my answer to it - spoiler below

I chose CompuServe for oldest file sharing service, and it told me that it was an online service not a cloud file hosting service. I then answered "CompuServe had file sharing" and I received 100pts

mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm really glad you liked it! That's one of the big advantages of using LLMs instead of relying on a fixed list of answers. Thanks so much for playing! :)
dooglius [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The agent is too helpful, I got away with stuff like "The one with the southmost shinkansen" for rarest Japanese city, which it substituted for the answer to that (which I didn't know)
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I see, thanks a lot for the feedback! That's a real hack of my LLM haha, I'll fix it within the hour!
garah [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Just tried this on my phone and had fun. Got 260/700 in Sky — somehow “peanuts” and “Michael Jackson” were my only perfect answers lol.
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks for trying it garah!
bonsai_bar [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That was a lot of fun! Thank you:)
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Glad you had fun, thanks for trying it!!
wccrawford [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Are there no accounts? Can I not continue playing on a different PC?
cesarvarela [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Very nice visual and sound experience, congrats!
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks a lot!! glad you enjoyed it :)
elektor [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I'm sorry but is this not just another AI remake of a very common game type?

I recall playing an identical game a few months ago, also on the HN front page.

https://www.krillion.org/

burkaman [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Yes this is clearly just a minor extension of Krillion, but that one was also AI-generated so it's hard to feel bad for them.
unsnap_biceps [3 hidden]5 mins ago
That site just opened a malware page and tried to make phone calls. I had to force kill my browser to get it to stop.
nicholsonpk [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I think https://krillion.io/ is the original.
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks you for the feedback, the concept doesn't come from Krillion or from me, there was already a game called Pointless on TV way before that, and Sky is straight up Family Feud, Past and Future are our own concepts And the graphics, even if the code and the implementation were obviously written with AI like 100% of people coding a big project today, they're human made
pavel_lishin [3 hidden]5 mins ago
But the Abyss mode looks almost identical to krillion - from the very concept of trying to guess rare answers, to the nautical diving theme, down to the almost-pixel-art style..?

It's incredible to suggest that this wasn't based on either Krillion, or that both games were based on something else.

(To be clear, I'm not accusing you of explicitly lifting the concept - but that's the problem with using AI to generate too much, it'll obviously re-use what it's seen before.)

edit: actually, you say "A large part of the code was written with AI tools, but the artistic direction the concept and every choice design are human-made" - it's just wildly improbable for the two to look and feel so similar.

rockostrich [3 hidden]5 mins ago
The UI and graphics are 100% just a reskin of Krillion...
TechDevar222 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
love it, the sound effects make it feel so immersive
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
thank you!! Sound was a big part of the feel we wanted it's really nice to hear
baud147258 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Most wonderful fact is that 55% of people dream of visiting Paris. Of course living just next to Paris puts a damper to any desire to visit
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I also grew up next to Paris so I completely get it. Once you know it, it's less of a dream. Thanks a lot for your feedback :)
arm32 [3 hidden]5 mins ago
I love the visual aesthetic. Fun idea!
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thank you so much! The pixel art took a lot of iterations, glad it shows!
wccrawford [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Rarest is terrible. I absolutely know that baked ube is a street food, and way less likely to be guessed than Udon, and yet I'm penalized for nobody else guessing it yet?

I didn't even play latest and oldest, because that's just a guessing game.

unsnap_biceps [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Oldest is fine and fun. It's oldest in terms of when, not answers. The oldest pyramid for example.

I agree that the rarest wasn't nearly as entertaining or fun. Perhaps that one needs a list to pick from.

Benjaminsen [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Love the visual style!
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks a lot! Glad you like it
l3x4ur1n [3 hidden]5 mins ago
It was fun!
mtlduo [3 hidden]5 mins ago
Thanks a lot for playing!! :)