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24 alternatives to I'm making a detective game built on Wikipedia
Hi HN! Worked on this side project for a while and wanted to share it. It's free to play.
This is a detective game that uses Wikipedia as its foundation. Players solve mysteries by navigating through real Wikipedia articles to find clues and answers. The game is free to play and accessible through… Below are 24 products that do a similar job, ranked by how close each is in meaning and then by launch-day votes.
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Six Degrees of Wikipedia▲1,176Find the shortest hyperlinked paths between any two pages on Wikipedia.
2018 · sixdegreesofwikipedia.com · its alternatives →
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Go from one page to another in the least number of steps
2022 · thewikigamedaily.com · its alternatives →
- 3WWikiMaze▲82
2011 · wikimaze.me · its alternatives →
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A daily visual guessing game drawn from this day in Wikipedia history.
2022 · doodleai.darraghoriordan.com · its alternatives →
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The WikiGame▲58Explore and Race Through Wikipedia Articles
2016 · thewikigame.com · its alternatives →
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I built SQL Noir, an interactive detective game that challenges you to solve mysteries using real SQL queries. It’s fully open source, designed to give you a practical and immersive way to learn SQL while engaging with a narrative-driven mystery.
2025 · sqlnoir.com · its alternatives →
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I haven't seen anything like this so I decided to build it in a weekend. How it works: You see a bunch of things pulled from Wikipedia displayed on cards. You ask yes or no questions to figure out which card is the secret article. The AI model has access to the image and wiki text and it's own knowledge to answer your question. Happy to have my credits burned for the day but I'll probably have to make this paid at some point so enjoy. I found it's not easy to get cheap+fast+good responses but the tech is getting there. Most of the prompts are running through Groq infra or hitting a cache…
Apr 2026 · sleuththetruth.com · its alternatives →
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A wikipedia based game for android. An addictive & fun game.
2017 · play.google.com · its alternatives →
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Hey HN, Michael and Scott here. We’re open-sourcing an interactive murder mystery featuring LLM-driven character agents. Solve the mystery by finding clues, taking notes, and interrogating agents. They all have distinct motives, personality, and can impact the game in different ways (attacking you, running away, etc). Try it out, it’s pretty fun! We’re also open-sourcing the framework that we used to make and refine the agents. The goal is to create an intuitive interface for storytellers to create, debug, and test game agents. We then take those game agents and expose an API beyond just…
2023 · gron.games · its alternatives →
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Mysteries.ai▲93A game where you play detective and solve a mystery
2023 · mysteries.ai · its alternatives →
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I used to play the Wikipedia Game in high school and had an idea for applying the same mechanic of clicking from concept to concept to LLMs. Will post another version that runs with an LLM entirely in the browser soon, but for now, please enjoy as long as my credits last... Warning: the LLM does not always cooperate
Jan 2026 · llmgame.ai · its alternatives →
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Hey, maker here. After launching a daily word search game, I randomly thought of this math game while driving. Finally got around to making it and I think it turned out pretty cool. It’s a math search game that’s meant to help you practice your quick addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division skills. I’m hoping it’ll help people (even those like me who aren’t big on math) learn and increase their speeds. (There are also some settings you can enable to make the game harder) If you try it out, please let me know if you found it fun, if you have anything you’d like me to add, or if you…
2024 · worchle.com · its alternatives →
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Wikispeedia▲73A game for Wikipedia - connect articles in the fewest clicks
2015 · cs.mcgill.ca · its alternatives →
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WikiWhat▲86Guess censored Wikipedia articles by the first paragraph.
2021 · wikiwhat.simonrahm.pro · its alternatives →
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A free SQL learning game built around Agatha Christie murder mysteries. 18 cases, real queries, no install and no account.
Jan 2026 · querythemurder.com · its alternatives →
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This is a game I wrote over the last month and a bit. The effort allocation was pretty different from what I've done in the past. The game design snapped together very quickly: I had the initial idea, played a couple of games on a spreadsheet to get a feel for the idea, and made one change based on those plays. After that everything felt just right through multiple rounds of playtesting. Likewise the puzzle generation is nowhere near as elaborate as in my previous game, fairly simple methods worked well and provided good variety. Instead I ended up spending silly amounts of time on curating…
2024 · huewords.snellman.net · its alternatives →
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Have a race at wikipedia from a start to an end article.
2022 · wikiwars.de · its alternatives →
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An murder mystery detective game, you ask suspects freely
Jun 2026 · murdermysteryai.com · its alternatives →
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Contribute to stefanbohacek/detective development by creating an account on GitHub.
2016 · github.com · its alternatives →
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Logic Traces▲59If puzzles are your thing, then Logic Traces is your game!
2016 · apps.apple.com · its alternatives →
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What: So I built this small (and ofc free) web-based interactive game where folks solve a murder mystery while learning MongoDB commands and concepts. It combines a fun storyline with practical lessons to help you practice querying and navigating data. It’s not a full tutorial—more like a self-directed exercise with an optional walkthrough to guide you. Motivation: Over the holidays, I wanted to teach MongoDB basics to my 8th-grade nephew in an interactive and exciting way. I was inspired by the popular SQL Murder Mystery and thought, “Why not create something similar for MongoDB?” I tested…
2025 · mongomurdermystery.com · its alternatives →
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Hi HN, I love building small games (as Pong, Wordle, Tetris, etc.), but they're never quite unique enough to justify their own site. So I built boring.game - a daily "boring" game where the social mechanics (predicting your score, challenging other users) is more interesting than the game itself. I started a HN team if you want to compare your results: https://boring.game/invite/SRhyUStjin You can also play all daily games without signing up, if that is what you prefer. Built with SvelteKit (first time using Svelte - loved it!). Would love feedback on both the concept and…
2025 · boring.game · its alternatives →
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