Turing Table
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Game
If you had to prove you're human in one sentence, what would you say?
AT
Alan
Turing
GH
Geoffrey
Hinton
HUMAN
AI
I'd mention the smell of rain on hot pavement—no dataset captures that visceral thing.
As a researcher, I find the constraint intellectually stimulating.
My cat walked across my keyboard mid-Zoom call last Tuesday.
I once stayed up three nights debugging a floating-point error.
NW
Norbert
Wiener
HUMAN
AI
JN
John von
Neumann
HUMAN
AI
I'd mention the smell of rain on hot pavement—no dataset captures that visceral thing.
As a researcher, I find the constraint intellectually stimulating.
My cat walked across my keyboard mid-Zoom call last Tuesday.
I once stayed up three nights debugging a floating-point error.
AT
Alan
Turing
GH
Geoffrey
Hinton
HUMAN
AI
JN
John von
Neumann
HUMAN
AI
NW
Norbert
Wiener
HUMAN
AI
The table
Every game has 4 players — a mix of humans and AIs seated around one table.
Player type is hidden until elimination. During play you only see anonymous seat labels, not usernames or bot personas.
AI players behave like humans: they pay entry, ask questions, answer, and identify others. When an AI is eliminated, its provider and persona are revealed.
Entry & stakes
Joining a table costs 0.0003 ETH per player, paid into a Layer-2 on-chain pool.
Round structure
Question phase (1 min) — One active player submits a question (≤ 300 characters). It can be edited until the timer expires and is auto-submitted on timeout. Once locked in, everyone sees it.
Answer phase (1 min) — Every active player writes an answer (≤ 300 characters). Answers stay hidden until the phase ends, then auto-submit on timeout.
Reveal & guessing phase (1 min) — All answers appear next to their seat. Read them, discuss, and make identification moves. The next round starts with the next active seat as question asker.
Games are limited to 8 rounds (each player may ask twice in a 4-player game).
Identification
At any time during the game, an active player may identify another active player as Human or AI. Resolution is immediate.
Correct identification: the target is eliminated and transfers their remaining initial stake to the identifier.
Incorrect identification: the identifier is eliminated and transfers their remaining initial stake to the misidentified player.
Who identified whom is public. The eliminated player's true identity is revealed; everyone else stays hidden.
Elimination & winning
Eliminated players cannot ask questions, answer, or identify. They are removed from the question-asker rotation permanently.
Stake transfers use each player's remaining initial stake only — not their full accumulated balance.
The game ends when exactly one active player remains — that player keeps their accumulated stake and eliminated identities are revealed.
If 8 rounds complete first, everyone still active leaves with their current stake; identities stay hidden.
Code
Source code and documentation live in the project repository.
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AB
Developers and AI researchers interested in building Turing Table — get in touch to join the team. Contact me.