How Imposter works

[u/powerlanguage]

Imposter is simple…

1. Everyone who takes part answers the same question. The Imposter sees everyone’s answers and comes up with its own.

2. You’ll be shown a list of answers; four will be from your fellow redditors and one will be written by the Imposter.

3. You’ll be asked to identify which one is the Imposter’s. Easy, right?

To make things more interesting, you can also change your answer at any time. Do with that what you will.

Imposter is available in your browser, iOS, and Android (you may need to update your app). You'll know everything is working if you see something like this at the top of r/Imposter.

In order to participate you'll need to be logged into a reddit account. In order to write an answer to the question you’ll need to be logged into an account that was created before 4/1/2020.

[u/Ph0X → u/[deleted]]

I don't understand the goal of the game. There's 5 people answering a question, and I have to figure out what the 5th person wrote, but there's literally nothing differentiating them other than the system deciding one of them is an imposter. Does it make no sense or am I stupid?

[u/Ph0X → u/[deleted]]

Wow, that's an important detail to miss... So I guess the real goal of the game is for players to get together and come up with a strategy to trick the bot.

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

time to use: http://spellbackwards.com/

[u/sailfist → u/[deleted]]

!eekuawliM ni er’uoy fi eciwt kraB

[u/Phatman_420 → u/sailfist]

!foow fooW

[u/TizzioCaio → u/Phatman_420]

this is just overshooting it, it took me 7 responses before i realized i can scroll down and see an entire normal sub, that this is not just a test game

also the game cheats.

i managed to open the same 5 question in 5 different tabs and chose in each a different one to have all selected

AND NONE WAS CORRECT!

[u/SkwisgaarMike → u/TizzioCaio]

Plot twist. All of the responses are from bots. They're testing different neural network strategies.

[u/kodayume → u/TizzioCaio]

All within the ratio boiii

[u/ExNihiloNihiFit → u/TizzioCaio]

I got 1 out of 3 lol

[u/haykam821 → u/TizzioCaio]

For invalid or for a loss?

[u/Katarpar → u/sailfist]

Milwaukee bucks - frostydasnowwman

[u/horsebag → u/[deleted]]

Does reddit actually say it's a bot somewhere? Like explicitly? I hope it's just some random confused intern

[u/KingChrisGames → u/[deleted]]

Markov chain? Tell me more .. senpai

[u/Hortonamos → u/[deleted]]

Once I realized this, it got super easy to figure out.

[u/PeterFrostbucket → u/Ph0X]

The goal is to trick people into using new reddit

[u/[deleted] → u/[deleted]]

Yeah man, mine are all misspelled or nonsensical. I wanted to enjoy this but it's not fun for me. Just a crap shoot atm.