Game night with friends, and an AI running the game
Game night does not need a box of cards. Put your friends in one chat and ask the AI to host. It can run a murder mystery, a quiz, or a story where everyone picks what happens next.
Below, three friends play a short murder mystery. They ask, the AI answers, and they argue about who did it. It is a written example, but it is how an evening in splitscreen goes.
Dani made this room and invited Kofi and Rosa. The hotel, the suspects and the friends are all made up.
A curated transcript, written by us to show what the product does - not a recording of a session, not a live room, and not real people. The prices are the ordinary rates on what each AI can do.
Claude, run a murder mystery for the three of us. A small hotel by the sea, a storm, four suspects. We play ourselves, as guests. Keep it short enough for one evening, and tell us what to do first.
Welcome to the Lantern Hotel. It is 9pm, the storm has cut the road, and the owner, Mr. Okafor, has just been found in the library. He is dead.
Four suspects are waiting in the lobby:
- Vera, the night manager. She says she was counting cash.
- Hugo, the chef. He says he was in the kitchen.
- Ines, a painter staying upstairs. She says she was in her room.
- Marcus, the owner’s nephew. He says he was asleep.
You three are guests, and nobody else can work this out. First move: each of you picks one place to search or one person to question, and tells me what you do.
I question Hugo. Why is there flour on his sleeve if he was only in the kitchen?
Hugo goes pale. “I was baking,” he says. “Mr. Okafor asked for bread at eight.” Then he adds, a little too fast, that he never went near the library. Nobody asked him that.
Clue: a bread knife is missing from the kitchen block, and the clock over the oven stopped at 8:40.
Rosa, Dani, what do you do?
I check the library. Is there anything on the desk?
On the desk there is half a note: “Meet me at the lighthouse at nine. Come alone.” It is signed with just a V.
V could be Vera. It could also be someone who wants you to think so. One more thing: the library window is open, and the carpet under it is wet.
You have three clues now. Keep searching, or are you ready to accuse someone?
Kofi, it is Hugo, right? The knife, the clock, the flour.
We accuse Hugo. Tell us how we did.
A fair guess, but not quite. Hugo lied because he fell asleep by the oven and was scared of being blamed.
It was Marcus. He signed the note with a V so you would look at Vera, climbed in through the library window, and left the wet carpet behind. The knife and the clock were red herrings.
You were one clue away. The wet carpet was the one to chase. Want another case next, or a quiz?
THE WET CARPET. I knew it. Same time next Friday?
What this chat costDaily limit for friends $1.9830 · Dani’s credit $4.9779Details
| After | Daily limit for friends | Dani’s credit |
|---|---|---|
| Dani opens the room | $2.0000 | $5.0000 |
| Dani asks Claude | $2.0000 | $4.9949 |
| Kofi asks Claude | $1.9955 | $4.9904 |
| Rosa asks Claude | $1.9900 | $4.9849 |
| Kofi asks Claude | $1.9830 | $4.9779 |
- Daily limit for friends
- The most this room can spend today on a friend’s question. Dani sets it.
- Dani’s credit
- Her balance. Her own questions come off it, and so does anything she covers for a friend.
The AI is the host, so all three friends get to play. Nobody reads the rules out loud or holds the secret.
Kofi questioned Hugo and Rosa searched the library. Each of them got a different clue, and none of it was planned in advance.
Ask for a ten-question quiz and it can keep the score. Ask for an adventure and each friend takes a turn. Same chat, same friends.