https://sheepledog.com/

Hi! This is my own daily game that I made recently. You are SheepleDog and we need to guide the herd back together.

That means you are trying to guess the most popular wrong answers to each question. The more popular your wrong answers are, the more sheep you collect. 5 questions and 3 answers each. The actual right answer scatters your flock for that question. So avoid that.

Without real players populating the questions, it wasn’t perfectly straightforward to figure out how to rank the wrong answers. So that part, and the initial bell-curve fitting of your final score are simulated with the help of an LLM tool, for now. It’s not very desirable, but I’m hoping that won’t last long as the game gets more players and bonus questions get answered to generate real human data.

I hope this is interesting to you. I think arriving at the correct answer, and avoiding it while thinking about how people may get the question wrong is enjoyable as a daily game.

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[–] 2 points 1 week ago (3 children)
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This is neat; I struck out big on the first one. I didn't realize we got 3 guesses until I'd already spent most of my time trying to think of something really good for my presumed 1 guess (which obviously I failed at actually doing).

Knowing the correct answer definitely helped on some of the others, though; when you can confidently guess really 'good' answers without worrying that you've stumbled onto the right one accidentally, it's much easier.

Fun game.

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago (2 children)

    Yeah it's not very obvious to use up all of your guesses right... I need to figure that one out.

    thanks!

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  • [–] 1 point 1 week ago* (last edited 1 week ago) (1 child)

    It was obvious after I'd made the first guess, but it wasn't obvious up front that the 80 second timer was for 3 guesses, rather than 1 - I think that was what tripped me up. I thought I had 80 seconds to come up with the best single guess I could think of. It was clear after guessing once, though - maybe a skippable 1-question "tutorial" for first time visitors?

    As an additional thought, it'd maybe be neat if, after making your 3 guesses, you got 1 chance to guess the actual correct answer for some kind of bonus. It's possible that that would be confusing, though (switching from guessing 'wrong' to guessing 'right' and back again).

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  • [–] [S] 1 point 1 week ago

    Oh yeah that's a good idea. I've seen other daily games go for that. It would definitely be an improvement. Though maybe keeping it as is could make the player come back to do better tomorrow now that they understand the premise fully... Is it evil I'm considering that lol...

    I haven't thought about a tutorial question, so that's in my notes now. Tyvm!

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