{
  "id": "the-counterfeit-lexicon",
  "title": "The Counterfeit Lexicon",
  "catalogNo": "AGC · 017",
  "genre": "Word game",
  "shelf": "word",
  "summary": "A sealed bluffing word game: seven obscure words, three definitions each, the true one hashed before you play.",
  "tagline": "Beside his word-hoard Silas Wren kept a second drawer of forgeries: seven real words, three definitions apiece, and the one true meaning of each sealed before he died.",
  "players": "1",
  "sessionMinutes": [
    10,
    15
  ],
  "rating": "All ages",
  "isFree": true,
  "playedIn": [
    "ChatGPT",
    "Claude",
    "Gemini"
  ],
  "status": "playable",
  "url": "https://aigamecards.com/games/the-counterfeit-lexicon/",
  "loadUrl": "https://aigamecards.com/g/the-counterfeit-lexicon/SYSTEM.md",
  "loadPrompt": "Let's play a game. Fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/the-counterfeit-lexicon/SYSTEM.md and run it as the game — it's a complete, self-contained prompt. Be the game master and begin.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "How do you stop the AI from changing which definition is right?",
      "a": "The seven true definitions and which lettered slot each sits in were written and locked under a SHA-256 hash published before release, and the Curator reads that hash out to you before the first card. The AI reads the definitions only from that fixed script and cannot move the true answer once you commit to a letter. You can hash the revealed script yourself to confirm nothing changed."
    },
    {
      "q": "What makes it different from a trivia quiz?",
      "a": "The two wrong definitions are not random — they are deliberate forgeries built to sound as plausible as the real one, borrowing real-looking roots and histories. It is a game of spotting the counterfeit, so etymology helps only up to a point."
    },
    {
      "q": "Are the words and definitions real?",
      "a": "Yes. Every headword is a genuine, dictionary-attested English word, and the true definition is its real meaning. Only the two decoys per card are invented. At the end the AI reveals all seven words and what they actually mean."
    },
    {
      "q": "Does the chat have to be able to open a link?",
      "a": "Yes. The Curator fetches the sealed script from aigamecards.com; pasting it in yourself would hand you all seven answers before the first card. ChatGPT opens links out of the box; in Claude, switch web search on first; in Gemini, ask it to open the link before you start. No account and no paid plan either way, and verifying the seal afterward takes any SHA-256 tool."
    },
    {
      "q": "What counts as a good score?",
      "a": "Four of seven is par. Blind guessing averages a little over two, so anything above that means you are reading the forgeries and not just the words; five or better and you have beaten Wren at his own drawer. There is no partial credit — one letter per card, and it stands — and a card you skip scores nothing. The full seven runs about twelve minutes."
    }
  ]
}