A Solidity smart contract that doesn't involve cryptocurrency. I've never heard of such a thing. Very cool
Mystery-o-matic.com random murder generator is open-source
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#12I'm the main developer behind mystery-o-matic, happy to take questions and feedback regarding its engine here!
Can you explain a bit more how Ethereum fits in “for obtaining a random mystery prompt and its solution”?
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#13A Solidity smart contract that doesn't involve cryptocurrency. I've never heard of such a thing. Very cool
It was used because of the nature of blockchain transactions as operations, but everything is simulated so no cryptocurrency is involved. Instead, every transaction represents a possible state change in the murder mystery (e.g. Alice walks from the Kitchen to the Bathroom). If the state change breaks any rule (e.g. let's say no more than two characters in the same room), then the transaction reverts and the fuzzing tool keeps exploring.
Edit: I guess an expanded version of this should be in the README
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#14I'm the main developer behind mystery-o-matic, happy to take questions and feedback regarding its engine here!
Can you explain a bit more how Ethereum fits in “for obtaining a random mystery prompt and its solution”?
Ethereum as a platform is not really used, but Solidity smart contracts simulated inside a testing tool. Check my explanation here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38422232
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#15I'm the main developer behind mystery-o-matic, happy to take questions and feedback regarding its engine here!
Really cool experience! :)
Having been cheerfully awarded the sleuth-o-matic rank of Barely Conscious (the murderer was was clear, the precise weapon+time wasn’t) I was wondering: is the mystery generator implemented in such a way that there’s enough “metagaming cues” in the clues to allow someone clever to get a good score on ALL generated mysteries?
For context: my partner correctly solved today’s mystery seven clues earlier than I did, and she explained that her answer was based on the fact that that 1. In literature certain weapons are predominantly associated with killers of particular genders, and 2. Killers will try to minimize their time spent at crime scenes to reduce the risk of detection, so if the murderer was found there, it’s probable that the murder was recent.
I was suitably impressed, but I’d be curious to know if human psychology and behavior patterns in literature are actually taken into account for the mysteries.
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#16Anyone have a link to examples?
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#17Anyone have a link to examples?
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#18I'm the main developer behind mystery-o-matic, happy to take questions and feedback regarding its engine here!
Really cool experience! :) Having been cheerfully awarded the sleuth-o-matic rank of Barely Conscious (the murderer was was clear, the precise weapon+time wasn’t) I was wondering: is the mystery generator implemented in such a way that there’s enough “metagaming cues” in the clues to allow someone clever to get a good score on ALL generated mysteries? For context: my partner correctly solved today’s mystery seven clu…
> Having been cheerfully awarded the sleuth-o-matic rank of Barely Conscious (the murderer was was clear, the precise weapon+time wasn’t) I was wondering: is the mystery generator implemented in such a way that there’s enough “metagaming cues” in the clues to allow someone clever to get a good score on ALL generated mysteries?
Well, the mystery generation is stochastic (where some of them will be more complex and difficult, while other ones are simpler) and the scoring is still under development (it usually very difficult to get a good score). Expect some changes in the near future to make the score more adaptative and fair.
> For context: my partner correctly solved today’s mystery seven clues earlier than I did, and she explained that her answer was based on the fact that that 1. In literature certain weapons are predominantly associated with killers of particular genders, and 2. Killers will try to minimize their time spent at crime scenes to reduce the risk of detection, so if the murderer was found there, it’s probable that the murder was recent.
> I was suitably impressed, but I’d be curious to know if human psychology and behavior patterns in literature are actually taken into account for the mysteries.
Assumption 1 is incorrect, all the weapons are randomly assigned so it was a lucky guess (however, it is an interesting one to make, so I will think about it to include it in the future..). Assumption 2 is .. actually correct. The mystery generation has a "minimization" procedure, where the actual input (the action from every agent) are reduced while keeping the murder mystery. This will indirectly, tend to make this assumption true.
Thanks for your feedback, it was really interesting.
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#19Fun fact about mystery-o-matic.com, and I suspect the HTML page generated with linked software : with JS disabled, you are able to see all clues "for free". When you don't know what the UI ought to look like, you just read them before realizing you're not supposed to.
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#20Fun fact about mystery-o-matic.com, and I suspect the HTML page generated with linked software : with JS disabled, you are able to see all clues "for free". When you don't know what the UI ought to look like, you just read them before realizing you're not supposed to.
This is correct, JS should be enabled to play :). The alternative is using a server to get clues which I want to avoid (the website is a single, static html). This enabled to play offline as well.