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Life & fun · May 11, 2015

Detective (a “chat” game)

A game of Detectives, Robots, and Impostors.

Detective (a “chat” game) launched on May 11, 2015 with 5 votes, #1,831 of 3,670 launches that month and more than 50% of that year's launches. The site was still online in September 2026, 11 years on.

What it does

You are using an outdated browser. Please upgrade your browser to improve your experience. DETECTIVE is a "reverse-Turing test" chat game where the player gets randomly paired with either another player or an automated chat bot ( ROBOT , powered by BOT Libre ). Human players will be randomly assigned a role of either a DETECTIVE or an IMPOSTOR . As a DETECTIVE , you must figure out whether you are speaking with a ROBOT (the chat bot) or an IMPOSTOR , another human player pretending to be a ROBOT . If you are an IMPOSTOR , you must trick the DETECTIVE into thinking that they are speaking to a ROBOT . You have an option to sign in using your Twitter account to record the number of games you…from fourtonfish.com

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