How Mean It? is scored

What the answer is

Every line on a card was written to a secret brief, for example "Apologise to Nan, but don't mean it". The right answer is that brief: the intent the writer was assigned.

So the game measures whether readers recover the intended intent. It does not measure whether a real person is sincere.

Where cards come from

• Seed cards were written by a model (DeepSeek V4.1 Flash) to a brief, and kept only if a second model (gpt-oss-120b) read them blind the same way.
• Player cards come from the write step ("Write a secret line"), after moderation. A player line joins the pool the day after it was written.

Counting

• One guess per player per card: the first one counts.
• "Can't tell" counts as neither right nor wrong. The read rate is right / (guesses − can't tell). A player gets no point and no miss for it, and the writer gets no points from it, on honest and deceptive briefs alike.
• Test and moderation traffic is left out, and so are lines hidden by reports or rejected by moderation.
• A card appears here only after its day has ended (UTC), so today's answers are never shown.
• The bot is GameDecider, a small model. When it abstains it counts as "can't tell", which is not a right answer.

Read with care

These are small numbers. Cards with fewer than 10 guesses are marked few guesses. A per-type figure is only as good as the number of cards behind it, so the card count is shown next to it.

By question type

Per card