Not trivia — closed-world deduction. Zero AI, handcrafted linted cases. A daily murder-mystery case file where every reader gets a different partial shard — nobody can solve it alone. The crowd has to pool clues in the comments to file a verdict.
A deterministic deal hands each reader a few unredacted lines out of ~40 clue shards the rest of the crowd doesn't have yet. The case cannot be solved by any single person — the comment thread becomes the evidence board where the subreddit collectively un-redacts the truth.
Every claim below is a structural property of the architecture — not a theme painted on top.
Every reader is dealt a different partial shard of the same case file. No single person — including a judge who just arrived — ever holds the whole truth.
All launch cases are hand-authored and pass an offline solvability linter — a Monte-Carlo of 1,000 random deals, every time, all reaching the truth.
Everything you need is inside the case file. No outside knowledge helps and no outside knowledge hurts — it's a logic puzzle, not a quiz.
Filing your shard as a comment lights contradictions in red string across the board. The subreddit has to read each other's evidence to file a verdict.
One tap posts your evidence card as a real comment under your username. The case meter ticks up; the suspect bars shift in real time.
Open the case folder. One black bar is yours — tap it and the redaction peels off to reveal your line of the case file.
Browse evidence cards other players have filed. Contradiction pairs glow red where both sides are already on the board.
One tap posts your line as a typeset evidence card — a real comment, under your username. The case meter ticks up.
Stake your read on one suspect. At the scheduled hour, the verdict ceremony crowns the earliest correct accusers.
"A judge who opens the post isn't evaluating a game — within 30 seconds they're personally holding a line 400 strangers need."— the whole pitch, in one sentence
Every filed shard is a line in the case. These are the kinds of notes the board produces — the voice of the investigation, in the detectives' words.
My shard was a pawn-ticket dated the 14th — two days after the fire. Filed it, and the watchman the whole board was sure about got struck off. Chills.
I had one line nobody else could see. Turns out it was the contradiction that lit the whole red string. You genuinely need every reader in the room.
Read the dossier, thought I had it, then the comments flipped everything. We closed the case as a crowd at hour 19. Best thread I've read on Reddit in months.
In-world flavor from the game's demo cases — REDACTED has no external users yet; nothing here is presented as a real customer review.
One tap on the live demo post is the pitch — no install, no account required.