The Bluff of the Century.
Anyone can read the words. Can you read the record? The machine drafted this whole house, and somewhere in it, it bluffs. Prove your literacy by catching the lie. Every answer shows you the record underneath, so catching the bluff doesn’t just test your reading; it builds it.
You don’t pass by knowing the answer. You pass by catching the lie.
- The whole museum, turned into one literacy test.
- Each round is a claim. You rule TRUE or BLUFF.
- Every answer shows the record's why, so catching the lie builds your reading, not just tests it.
- Verified facts are true; plausible distortions are bluffs; nothing fake is ever presented as true.
- The owner planted his own failures too (the One Lie, a stale number). Catch him, and you scored the record over the person who built it.
- You don't pass by knowing the answer. You pass by catching the lie.
Why the owner fails his own test, on purpose. Some of these bluffs are the house’s own: the One Lie (the machine "paints"), a stale number the owner overclaimed and got caught on, a "no lies here" that would itself be a lie. They’re left in, catchable, because a test the builder passes automatically is no test, and a judge you can bribe is no judge. If you caught the owner, you scored the record over the person who wrote it. That’s the entire game, and the entire point.
Hand-authored and scored on your own device (only humans score); no account, no network, no tracking. Every "true" claim is a verified fact from the record; every "bluff" is a plausible distortion whose answer cites the real thing. Nothing fabricated is ever presented as true; the one rule is no lying, and the bluffs you catch here are labeled as the game. Kin: Spot the Lie, The Tell, Meta the Cite, the CAPTCHA is king.