[HN Gopher] Show HN: llmgame.ai - The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs
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Show HN: llmgame.ai - The Wikipedia Game but with LLMs
I used to play the Wikipedia Game in high school and had an idea
for applying the same mechanic of clicking from concept to concept
to LLMs. Will post another version that runs with an LLM entirely
in the browser soon, but for now, please enjoy as long as my
credits last... Warning: the LLM does not always cooperate
Author : jmcallister
Score : 17 points
Date : 2026-01-06 03:07 UTC (20 hours ago)
(HTM) web link (www.llmgame.ai)
(TXT) w3m dump (www.llmgame.ai)
| smuenkel wrote:
| This is strangely difficult! I cannot get even close, all my
| approaches end up being weirdly circular!
| smuenkel wrote:
| Whoop! Finally made it from Books to Rainbow:
|
| I found a path from Books to Rainbow with 634 generated topics!
| Books - Print culture (similar) Print culture - Media (broader)
| Media - Social media (similar) Social media - Online
| communities (good) Online communities - Reddit (people) Reddit
| - Social media (similar) Social media - Social networking sites
| (deeper) Social networking sites - MySpace (past) MySpace -
| Online communities (good) Online communities - Reddit (places)
| Reddit - Internet culture (good) Internet culture - Memes
| (similar) Memes - Rickroll (deeper) Rickroll - Internet meme
| (similar) Internet meme - Lolcats (deeper) Lolcats - I Can Has
| Cheezburger? (past) I Can Has Cheezburger? - Internet meme
| (similar) Internet meme - Image macro (past) Image macro -
| Internet humor (good) Internet humor - Memes (similar) Memes -
| Internet meme culture (past) Internet meme culture - Internet
| meme (past) Internet meme - Doge meme (deeper) Doge meme -
| Shiba Inu meme (deeper) Shiba Inu meme - Dog meme (similar) Dog
| meme - Cat meme (opposite) Cat meme - Nyan Cat (deeper) Nyan
| Cat - Nyan Cat meme origins (deeper) Nyan Cat meme origins -
| 4chan (places) 4chan - Online communities (good) Online
| communities - Subculture (similar) Subculture - Youth
| subcultures (good) Youth subcultures - Lolita subculture
| (deeper) Lolita subculture - Ero guro (similar) Ero guro -
| Purity (opposite) Purity - Chastity (similar) Chastity -
| Sensuality (opposite) Sensuality - Eroticism (deeper) Eroticism
| - Sexuality (similar) Sexuality - Sexual orientation (broader)
| Sexual orientation - Heteronormativity (deeper)
| Heteronormativity - LGBT rights (opposite) LGBT rights - Gay
| rights movement (similar) Gay rights movement - Stonewall riots
| (similar) Stonewall riots - Queer liberation (good) Queer
| liberation - LGBTQ+ history (similar) LGBTQ+ history - LGBTQ+
| rights (broader) LGBTQ+ rights - LGBT rights (broader) LGBT
| rights - LGBT movement (broader) LGBT movement - Pride movement
| (similar) Pride movement - Pride Parade movement (deeper) Pride
| Parade movement - LGBT Pride (similar) LGBT Pride - Gay Rights
| Movement (deeper) Gay Rights Movement - Lavender Scare (deeper)
| Lavender Scare - LGBT history (similar) LGBT history - Queer
| history (similar) Queer history - Queer activism (similar)
| Queer activism - LGBTQ+ advocacy (deeper) LGBTQ+ advocacy -
| Queer theory (similar) Queer theory - LGBT studies (broader)
| LGBT studies - LGBTQ history (deeper) LGBTQ history - LGBTQ
| rights movement (good) LGBTQ rights movement - Stonewall Riots
| (past) Stonewall Riots - LGBTQ+ rights (good) LGBTQ+ rights -
| Transgender Rights (future) Transgender Rights - Transgender
| Healthcare (deeper) Transgender Healthcare - Gender dysphoria
| (similar) Gender dysphoria - Transgender (similar) Transgender
| - Heterosexuality (opposite) Heterosexuality - Asexuality
| (opposite) Asexuality - Demisexuality (similar) Demisexuality -
| Sexual orientation (broader) Sexual orientation - Sexual
| orientation spectrum (deeper) Sexual orientation spectrum -
| Kinsey scale (deeper) Kinsey scale - Sexual orientation
| (similar) Sexual orientation - Heterosexuality (similar)
| Heterosexuality - Bisexuality (similar) Bisexuality -
| Pansexuality (similar) Pansexuality - Bisexuality (similar)
| Bisexuality - Bisexual erasure (deeper) Bisexual erasure -
| LGBTQ+ representation (opposite) LGBTQ+ representation - Pride
| flag (places) Pride flag - Rainbow Flag (LGBT Pride) (deeper).
|
| Try it yourself at www.llmgame.ai
| jmcallister wrote:
| Congrats! I posted my solution above which took it in a
| completely different climatology direction
|
| There is definitely some work for me to do on the prompting
| to get the right balance of creativity, specificity, etc. out
| of the smallest LLMs out there. That being said, there's
| something enjoyable about finding a way to steer the llm out
| of a slop loop
| jmcallister wrote:
| Creator here--today's target is hard but doable :)
|
| I found a path from Books to Rainbow with 366 generated topics!
| Books - Publishing (broader) Publishing - Media (broader) Media -
| Times Square (places) Times Square - Central Park (opposite)
| Central Park - Strawberry Fields (Central Park) (deeper)
| Strawberry Fields (Central Park) - Strawberry Fields (broader)
| Strawberry Fields - Berry Fields (broader) Berry Fields - Berry
| Fields Winery (places) Berry Fields Winery - Wine Country
| (broader) Wine Country - Wine Region (broader) Wine Region -
| Terroir (similar) Terroir - Agriculture (broader) Agriculture -
| Desertification (evil) Desertification - Reforestation (opposite)
| Reforestation - Ecology (broader) Ecology - Landscape Ecology
| (deeper) Landscape Ecology - Ecology (broader) Ecology -
| Ecosystem ecology (deeper) Ecosystem ecology - Trophic dynamics
| (deeper) Trophic dynamics - Nutrient cycling (deeper) Nutrient
| cycling - Nitrogen cycle (good) Nitrogen cycle - Biogeochemistry
| (broader) Biogeochemistry - Earth science (broader) Earth science
| - Meteorology (deeper) Meteorology - Weather science (broader)
| Weather science - Meteorology (deeper) Meteorology - Weather
| phenomenon (deeper) Weather phenomenon - Sunshine (good) Sunshine
| - Sunlight spectrum (deeper) Sunlight spectrum - Visible spectrum
| (deeper) Visible spectrum - Rainbow Chromaticity (places).
|
| Try it yourself at www.llmgame.ai
| nomadygnt wrote:
| This is fun! I thought I did pretty good with 123.
|
| I found a path from Books to Rainbow with 123 generated topics!
| Books - Johannes Gutenberg (people) Johannes Gutenberg - Printing
| press (broader) Printing press - Sedition (evil) Sedition -
| Peaceful protest (good) Peaceful protest - Social movement
| (similar) Social movement - Black Lives Matter (places) Black
| Lives Matter - Alicia Garza (people) Alicia Garza - Reproductive
| rights (similar) Reproductive rights - Feminism (broader)
| Feminism - Women's studies (similar) Women's studies - Gender
| studies (similar) Gender studies - Queer Studies (deeper) Queer
| Studies - LGBTQIA Studies (similar) LGBTQIA Studies - LGBTQIA
| History (good) LGBTQIA History - LGBTQ movements (broader) LGBTQ
| movements - Galden LGBTQ Center (places) Galden LGBTQ Center -
| LGBTQ community organizations (similar) LGBTQ community
| organizations - LGBTQ advocacy groups (similar) LGBTQ advocacy
| groups - GLAAD (places) GLAAD - Gay rights movement (broader) Gay
| rights movement - LGBTQ rights movement (deeper) LGBTQ rights
| movement - Pride flag (deeper) Pride flag - Rainbow flag
| (similar).
|
| Try it yourself at www.llmgame.ai
| jmcallister wrote:
| Nice work! Gutenberg to peaceful protest in 3 jumps is clutch
| gavmor wrote:
| Driving through a 1,024-dimensional field in a car with six
| steering wheels.
| jmcallister wrote:
| Fields with many a local maxima
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