This is a submission for the is a browser game about the one question Alan Turing asked in 1950 that we still haven't answered: can you tell the difference between a human and a machine?
You read 10 conversations. For each message, you decide: human or AI?
Sounds simple. Round 1, it is. By Round 5, you'll second-guess everything.
That's the point.
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Why Alan Turing, Why Now
June is Turing's birth month. This jam runs through June 21st — the solstice, the longest day, the turning point of the year. The timing felt too right to ignore.
Turing gave computing its soul. Not the circuits, not the transistors — the question. In his 1950 paper Computing Machinery and Intelligence, he didn't ask "can machines think?" He replaced that impossible question with a practical one: can a machine fool a human into thinking it's human?
He called it the Imitation Game.
We've been playing it ever since — except now, in 2026, we're the ones being fooled. Regularly. By machines that learned from us.
I wanted to make people feel that shift. Not read about it. Feel it.
The Game Design — Light, Dark, and the Solstice
The visual design maps directly onto the jam themes.
Dark = the machine's world. The game opens on a near-black background. Cold, clean, perfect. That's what early AI sounds like: polished in the wrong way, like someone who memorised manners without understanding them.
Light = human truth. As rounds progress and the AI gets more convincingly human, the screen warms. Win — correctly spot the human more than half the time — and the screen floods with light. Solstice light.
Lose, and you stay in the dark. The machines have crossed the line Turing drew.
Each round is labelled with a real year from AI history:
| Round | Year | What it represents |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1926 | Before Turing — AI is science fiction |
| 2 | 1936 | Turing's first paper on computation |
| 3 | 1950 | The Turing Test is published |
| 4 | 1966 | ELIZA, the first chatbot |
| 5 | 2026 | Today: AI that passes the test regularly |
By 2026, you're trying to find humanity in text generated in milliseconds. Welcome to the present.
Code
Turing-s-Mirror
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Tech: Vanilla JS · HTML5 · CSS3 · no dependencies
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