Personas

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What is it? #

Forget Wordle. This is a daily puzzle game where you chat with an AI that’s pretending to be… something. Your job is to figure out both their identity and their “twist”—some weird thing about them.

Like, today’s persona might be a bowling ball that thinks it’s a superhero on a mission to defeat supervillains (aka the pins). You ask questions, the AI responds in character, and you try to guess both pieces.

Why I built it #

I wanted to mess around with Gemini’s LLM capabilities in a fun way. Most AI stuff feels either too utilitarian or too try-hard. But what if you just made a game where the AI character was funny and weird? Where the whole point is to have a conversation and see if you can figure them out?

The fun part #

The personas are wonderfully absurd. Sometimes it’s a famous person with a twist, sometimes it’s an inanimate object with delusions, sometimes it’s something entirely made up. The AI plays along perfectly, which is part of the charm.

The technical side #

• Gemini LLM doing the heavy lifting for the conversation
• Daily puzzle generation (so there’s a reason to come back)
• Pretty straightforward React frontend
• Enough backend to track your streaks and let you share results

Current status #

In Beta - go check it out!