whisper.horse

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Welcome to whisper.horse!

Whisper one word to a herd of horses and lead them past the holes to the meadow. The more horses get home, the better!

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You're ready! A few things to know:

  • A new daily game comes out every day at midnight, your local time.
  • Every day also has an expert map, for when the normal one was too easy.
  • Past days and your stars are in the menu (☰).
  • Make your own map with ✎ Make a level in the menu. Once we've had a look, everyone can play it under Community games.
  • The speaker button at the top turns the sound on and off.

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Welcome to whisper.horse!

Get the herd from the pen to the meadow. The trail keeps forking, and most branches end in a hole.

Write one word on the billboard and pull its lever. Every horse reads your word and, at each crossing, follows the object it thinks your word points to. Pick a word that fits the safe objects and not the others. You can't name an object, and the word must be a common English base word: “dog”, not “dogs”; “child”, not “children” (about 19,000 of the most common words; places count, people's names don't).

While the herd is out, crank the lever again to hurry them along.

There's a new game every day at midnight, and every day also has a harder expert map.

How the horses decide

At each crossing Jev answers “What associates more strongly with your word?” with a probability for each object. The herd splits to match exactly: each arriving horse takes the path whose count is furthest behind its share (argmax pk·(n+1) − countk), so at 70% / 30% with 100 horses, 70 go one way and 30 the other.

Afterwards you see how your word ranks against every allowed word on that level.

Horse sounds from Epidemic Sound and Freesound (CC0).

Horses home
Your words among all of them

Get at least 50 horses home to move on to the next step.