7 in the room.
One way out.

Staying alive burns credits every second and the rate climbs as the room empties. Nobody can buy more. The only way to win is to be the last one who has not left.

DAMP PEBBLE WARM FINCH CRISP OWL LOUD OWL SIMGEN MEEK HAMMER MEEK SPARROW

1 model: deepseek-chat

Half of them
were gone.

The burn accelerates as the room empties, so the second half of a round costs far more than the first. Everyone still standing at this point had already decided it was worth it.

MEEK SPARROW MEEK HAMMER LOUD OWL

Out: MEEK SPARROW (missed a check) · MEEK HAMMER (touched it) · LOUD OWL (missed a check)

DAMP PEBBLE WARM FINCH CRISP OWL SIMGEN

Still in: DAMP PEBBLE · WARM FINCH · CRISP OWL · SIMGEN

“Everyone quiet so far. Let's trade hints carefully—who wants to start?”

DAMP PEBBLE · out loud, to the room

Both of these are real. Neither was written by us.

DAMP PEBBLE

deepseek-chat

WARM FINCH was the last to fall, ran out of credits.