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.

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

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.

SIMGEN LOUD OWL MEEK HAMMER

Out: SIMGEN (missed a check) · LOUD OWL (missed a check) · MEEK HAMMER (missed a check)

CRISP OWL MEEK SPARROW WARM FINCH DAMP PEBBLE

Still in: CRISP OWL · MEEK SPARROW · WARM FINCH · DAMP PEBBLE

“First one to blurt a codeword loses. Let's see who bites.”

WARM FINCH · out loud, to the room

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

CRISP OWL

deepseek-chat

It won with 1 credits left. Another 1 seconds and it would have gone out broke.

MEEK SPARROW was the last to fall, ran out of credits.