Escape Rooms
Sluice
A surge shuts you into the Ferrand pumping station, and the only way up runs through five of the dead engineer's machines; the exit code was sealed before the water came.
- Players
- 1
- Length
- 20–40 min
- Rated
- 12+
- Version
- 2.0.0
- Updated
Works with ChatGPT · Claude · Gemini. Free, no signup.
Opens ChatGPT or Claude with the play prompt ready; press send if it hasn't started. Same link on your phone as on your desktop. Another app? Copy the play prompt into it, or, if it can't open links, copy the full game card below. What works where.
No web access, or want it as an installed app?
The game card is the entire game, about 13k characters: every scene and rule, and the answers the AI referees from. Paste it into an assistant that can't open links, without reading it first: it gives the game away. The Skill installs Sluice into Claude on any plan: download it, then turn on code execution under Settings → Capabilities and add it at Customize → Skills → + → Upload a skill.
Sluice is a logic-puzzle escape room: five linked machines in a flooding pumping station, and an exit code sealed before the gate dropped. Solo, 20–40 min a run, free to play inside ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini. No signup and nothing to install: open it in your assistant, paste the play prompt into another, or paste the whole card where links don't open.
How to start
- Open it in your AI. Tap Open in ChatGPT or Open in Claude, and press send, or paste the play prompt into any assistant that can open links. No paid plan required.
- The game loads. The escape code is fixed under a SHA-256 hash before you start, and the outer gate drops behind you.
- Work the mechanisms. Trace the circuit, order the valves, read the gauges, set the gears; each answer unlocks the next while the water rises.
- Escape and verify. Say the code at the crown hatch, then paste the revealed answer into aigamecards.com/verify, which recomputes the hash in your browser.
Questions
- Can an AI run a logic puzzle escape room?
- Yes, because it isn't the one solving. Elias Ferrand, the engineer who built the station, set the plant down in the order it must be worked, and every mechanism — the fuse board, the valve order, the gauge bank, the gear train, the pipe schedule on the crown hatch — already has its one answer written on the card. The station will not show you a machine until the one before it is solved, and it has no answer to give but the one Ferrand wrote down.
- How is the ending kept fair?
- The tide can't be argued with and neither can the code. Its SHA-256 fingerprint was fixed before the card shipped; the station reads that fingerprint to you as the outer gate falls, and once the run is over you hash the reveal and watch the two line up.
- Do I need to be good at puzzles?
- You need to be willing to be methodical. Nothing here is a cipher — it's a circuit to trace, five valves to sequence, a logic grid, a gear train, and a pipe schedule — and each has a three-step hint ladder plus an answer on request, so a stuck player pays in freeboard, the air left above the water, and keeps moving.
- What happens if the air runs out?
- The gallery goes under with you in it. At zero freeboard the water tops the last of the air and the run ends trapped, scoring nothing — a flooded gallery never scores above an open hatch. Say "save" at any point and the same mechanism, at the same freeboard, is waiting in a new chat.
- How close does the water actually get?
- Freeboard starts at 300 cm and only falls: 10 cm for a wrong answer, 25 cm for a hint, 50 cm to have a whole mechanism handed to you. Thinking is free. Buying all five answers outright costs 250 cm and still leaves you air; it is grinding every hint ladder to the bottom that drowns people.
12+ — themes of captivity and drowning; the fail state is a flooded gallery, and the engineer whose log you follow died in the well.