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- Uncracked City casts players as detectives who question four LLM suspects, with exactly one of the four confirmed to lie.
- The Thirteenth Step sets its Halloween case in Salem in 2025, beginning on the morning after Halloween.
- Meg Ashcombe, described as the last of her family, lies at the foot of her grand staircase with one slipper on the thirteenth step.
- The Thirteenth Step leaves the front door bolted from inside, giving players a concrete locked-room obstacle to work through.
- Grey Captain is invoked by half the town as the figure that "finally took her," while the case remains unsolved.
Why it matters: For players, the four-suspect cast turns the LLM concept into a bounded logic problem: exactly one account is deceptive, so the interrogation system must distinguish that lie from the other three. The thirteenth-step slipper and bolted front door supply physical clues alongside character testimony, giving the unsolved case a concrete evidence trail.
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