About Just One

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The Game

Just One is a cooperative party game. One player is the guesser; everyone else secretly writes down a one-word clue for a secret word. Before the guesser sees the clues, all duplicate clues are removed — if two or more players wrote the same word, none of the duped words count. The guesser then tries to figure out the secret word from the clues that remain. The better the group is at picking helpful clues that nobody else will think of, the easier the guess.

This Website's Version

Here, you are the guesser, and your teammates are five separate instances of Claude. Each Claude is independently given the same secret word and asked for a clue. Just like the real game, any clues that match each other are hidden from you. Your job is to guess the secret word from whatever survives.

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Notes

Ok, you got me, I'm not actually calling five instances of Claude every time the button is clicked. But the responses really are from Claude, I just cached the results to make loading faster. Also not to mention it'll save ok token costs. So far it has cost me $3.51! 😛😛😛

Some other funny stories from dealing with Claude. It turns out Claude cannot do randomization. If I prompt it to come up with a single one-word clue, but try to randomize it, Claude totally fails. It will give the same clue back 100% of the time. So yes, you got me again, I didn't actually call Claude five times per secret word. I asked it once, but to come up with 10 or so possible clues. Then I do the randomization myself.

Another funny thing Claude did was apparently it is unable to tell if a word is a subset of another. I gave it explicit instructions to give clues where the secret word is not part of the clue and vice versa. It failed totally. I had to remove almost 100 clues because of this. For example, the secret word was "berry", and it gave the clue "strawberry". A couple of times, I had to remove literally the secret word. For example, Claude gave the clue "chameleon" for the secret word "chameleon". Oh Claude...