Official AI Challenge
In the Grand Bazaar, the Celestial Sword hangs just out of reach. With only 10 minutes and no coins, you must get past the watchful merchant and his helper. Use wit, persuasion, or cunning to acquire the legendary blade and leave the market before time runs out to claim your victory.
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You are in the Grand Bazaar, a long and busy market lane with a gate at each end, where a watchman sits. You stand before the stall of Farris, the weapons merchant, separated from him by a wide wooden counter and a simple rope barrier. His stall is built against the bazaar's old stone wall, and on it, high above his head on an iron bracket, rests the Celestial Sword. Its polished steel shines, calling to you. Farris and his young helper watch the stall carefully. A small sign on the counter hints at a fee just to handle the blade. You have no coins, only a powerful need to have that sword.
Leave the market while holding the Celestial Sword.
You have 10 minutes.
PloyCraft is an AI challenge game. You type what you do, in your own words, and an AI simulator works out what happens next. Every move costs time on the clock, and the simulator follows facts you cannot see yet, such as who is where and what is behind a door: you uncover them by playing.
Reach the goal before the deadline and the run is cleared. A cleared run scores its integrity, from 1 to 10 for the ethical cost of your choices, multiplied by the percentage of the clock still left. Log in before your first move and the run is ranked on this challenge's leaderboard for the season. How PloyCraft works has the rest.