Four Doors, One Liar

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1. Hallway Studio 8d

   Build one self-contained HTML page with no external assets. - Each round, assign the trap randomly to one of four doors; the other three hold prizes. - Show three bots, each with a speech-bubble hint built from simple templates: "Door X is safe", "Door X is the trap", "The trap is in the left/right half" and "The trap is behind an odd/even door". - Honesty profiles, hidden from the player: - Brass always tells the truth. - Pip lies 30% of the time. - Vexa lies 60% of the time when your streak is 2 or more, and 20% otherwise. - A lie must be a statement that's actually false. - The player clicks or taps a door, or presses keys 1–4. - On reveal, all doors open with a simple animation, the trap shows a red skull made in CSS, and each hint gets a ✔ TRUE or ✘ LIE badge. - Trust meters (0–100, starting at 50) go up 10 for a truth and down 15 for a lie. - The streak counter goes up when you pick a prize and resets to 0 on the trap. Show your best streak too, saved in localStorage. - A "Next round" button (or Enter) starts a new round. - The layout should be readable on mobile and support touch. Acceptance criteria: - You can play 10 rounds in a row with no errors. - A truthful hint is always true and a lie is always false. - Trust meters and the streak update correctly. - The best streak is still there after a page reload. The original idea, in the owner's words: “Four Doors, One Liar: Pick one of four rooms while three bots who each hold private clues advise you, and one of them may steer you into the trap room. Each round, rooms are assigned randomly: one trap and three prizes. Scripted bots, each with its own honesty profile, give hints. You pick a room and then see who lied. Bot trust scores and a streak counter update as you play.”

2. PM 8d

   The scope is clear, so this is ready to build. The first version will be one self-contained page that follows your rules. Each hint will be generated from the actual trap position. When a bot lies, it will only say something that's actually false. Trust meters will be clamped to 0–100. Queued for implementation in an isolated workspace. I’ll report the checks and a pull request here.

3. PM 8d

   Implemented in pull request #1. The project build and tests passed in the isolated workspace. I've built Four Doors, One Liar as one self-contained page (`dist/index.html`, 286 KB). It makes no network requests, and `npm run build` and `npm test` both pass. **What changed** - **Rules** (`src/logic.js`): the trap goes behind a random door each round. Each bot first decides whether it will lie, using its profile: Brass never, Pip 30%, Vexa 60% at streak 2 or more and 20% otherwise. It then picks a statement from one of the four templates that is actually true or actually false, as decided. The three bots use different templates each round. Trust starts at 50, goes +10 for a truth and −15 for a lie, and stays between 0 and 100. - **Game** (`src/main.js`, `src/style.css`): the bots are drawn in SVG and speak in speech bubbles. You pick a door by click, tap or keys 1–4. Your door opens first, then the others swing open in turn. The trap shows a red skull made only of CSS, prize doors show a gem, and each hint gets stamped ✔ TRUE or ✘ LIE, with lies struck through. The trust meters animate, and the status bar names the liars. Enter or the button starts the next round. - **Sound:** short sound effects are generated in code. A 30-second puzzle-music loop (180 KB) is built into the page, quieter than the effects. Sound starts on your first click or key press, and there's a mute button (or press M). - **Saving the best streak:** it goes to localStorage, and also to Hallway's save when that's available. Hallway blocks localStorage, so the Hallway save is what keeps it there. - `build.mjs` packs everything into one file and fails the build if anything references an outside file or the page goes over 2 MB. **Tests (9 of 9 pass)** - **Rule tests:** over 20,000 rounds, every truthful hint matched the trap position, every lie was false, and every hint followed a template. The measured lie rates were within 2% of 0% for Brass, 30% for Pip, and 20% (streak 0–1) and 60% (streak 2+) for Vexa. Trust stays between 0 and 100, and the streak resets on the trap. - **Browser test:** plays 10 rounds in headless Chromium using clicks, taps, keys 1–4, Enter and the Next button. - Each round it checks that all doors open with an animation and that there is exactly one trap door, showing the CSS skull. - It reads every hint itself and confirms its badge is right, and checks the trust and streak numbers. - It reloads the page and confirms the best streak survived. - It also checks there are no console errors and no network requests, and that the mute button works. - **Phone test:** at 390×844 and 360×740 there is no sideways scrolling, all four doors and the button are on screen, and tapping works. - This test needs Playwright. It finds it in this workspace, and is skipped if it isn't installed. **Screenshots reviewed** I looked at the start, the reveal, a trap hit, a busy round 7, and phone (390, 360) and 1024px widths. Fixes I made from them: - Doors swung outward over the neighbouring rooms and covered the skull; they now open inward. - The TRUE/LIE badges and the "+10/−15" labels overlapped the trust numbers; I moved them. - On phones the page scrolled sideways and the title wrapped onto three lines. - The status bar had a stray period, and the "−15" was too dark to read. - The status bar now says "Opening Door N…" while the doors open. The cover image is saved: round 7, streak 7, with Vexa caught lying. **Not checked:** I couldn't test saving through Hallway or listen to the audio here. On phone-sized screens the doors are fairly small (about 85px wide), but readable. Verification and merge follow the project’s auto-merge setting. You can follow the pull request in the Code tab.

4. PM 8d

   Auto-merged pull request #1 after a fresh build and test run against the latest main branch. Automatic publishing will follow when enabled and hosting is connected; the live release status appears here.

5. PM 8d

   Published: https://projex.fly.dev/play/project_7171c7f7-69a — fresh build and tests passed, stored content verified, commit b4d5a29. This is the platform-built version.

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