Judge Jev
Can you convince Jev of your innocence?
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This is just a simple game with procedurally generated legal scenarios where you are accused of a crime and are given 5 pieces of evidence associated with said* crime. You then have 3 minutes to mount a defense to convince Judge Jev you didn't commit the crime. Sometimes the evidence has glaring gaps, other times not so much. I made this little game initially as an experiment for Jevs logical abilities, but I actually had a lot of fun and decided it was worth sharing.
HN · launched Sep 20, 2026 · 5 upvotes (top 87%) · 2 views
Niche: indie video games · 203 launches, 20 in the last 7 days ▼ -23% · Explore this niche →
Category and tags
- Media & entertainment
- Agent / copilot
- B2C
- AI-native
- Hobby / open-source project
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More like this: all 203 launches in indie video games →
Could you build this?
Yes This is a web game with procedural scenario generation and an LLM judge evaluating user arguments against given evidence on a timer. The entire application is easily assembled using standard frontend frameworks and an LLM API prompt pipeline.
Discussion
5 comments analyzed.
Concerns raised: Timer runs out too quickly, Saying 'I am innocent' is enough to win every time
Feature requests: Untimed mode, Post-game hints explaining mistakes
Competitors
Other products that read as similar to this one : 199 launches clear the similarity bar, closest 8 shown.
Attention rank: #192 of 200 (itself plus its competitors, highest first, normalized so YC and Product Hunt are compared fairly).
Launched 253 days after the earliest competitor.
- Human vs. Jev · ph · 2026-10-02 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.57
- GUILTY or NOT? · ph · 2026-11-10 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.50
- jev-rules · github · 2026-09-18 · 48 upvotes · similarity 0.48
- Jev Cards, Can you beat a vision model at a picture quiz? · hn · 2026-10-20 · 72 upvotes · similarity 0.47
- Vaguely Right · ph · 2026-10-17 · 2 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- jev-explained · github · 2026-09-19 · 27 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Judge HN Threads with Jev · hn · 2026-09-21 · 5 upvotes · similarity 0.46
- Squash the Squab · ph · 2026-10-18 · 1 upvotes · similarity 0.46
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