{
  "id": "sluice",
  "title": "Sluice",
  "catalogNo": "AGC · 014",
  "genre": "Escape room",
  "shelf": "escape",
  "summary": "A five-mechanism logic escape room whose exit code is sealed before the water starts rising.",
  "tagline": "Locked in a drowning pump-house, you work a chain of five logic mechanisms to the crown hatch before the tide-glass empties; the exit code was sealed before the gate fell.",
  "players": "1",
  "sessionMinutes": [
    40,
    55
  ],
  "rating": "All ages",
  "isFree": true,
  "playedIn": [
    "ChatGPT",
    "Claude",
    "Gemini"
  ],
  "status": "playable",
  "url": "https://aigamecards.com/games/sluice/",
  "loadUrl": "https://aigamecards.com/g/sluice/SYSTEM.md",
  "loadPrompt": "Let's play a game. Fetch https://aigamecards.com/g/sluice/SYSTEM.md and run it as the game — it's a complete, self-contained prompt. Be the game master and begin.",
  "faq": [
    {
      "q": "Can ChatGPT actually run a logic escape room?",
      "a": "Yes. Every mechanism and its answer are printed on the card, so the AI checks your input instead of improvising. It plays the flooded station and the notes while you do the deduction. Because the answers are fixed, it cannot hand you the exit or move a puzzle when you get close."
    },
    {
      "q": "How is the ending kept fair?",
      "a": "The final escape code is committed with a SHA-256 hash printed on the card before you start. The station cannot change the code mid-game, and you hash the revealed answer afterward to prove it never moved."
    },
    {
      "q": "Do I need to be good at ciphers?",
      "a": "No ciphers here. The chain is logic and mechanisms: a circuit trace, an ordering deduction, a logic grid, a gear combination, and an acrostic. Each has a three-step hint ladder plus an answer-on-request option, so you never get stuck, and everything you need is printed on the card."
    },
    {
      "q": "What happens if I run out of time?",
      "a": "A tide-glass sets a 300 cm freeboard, and wrong answers and hints drop it. If it reaches zero the gallery floods and the run ends trapped, scoring zero. You can save at any point and resume the same mechanism in a new chat."
    },
    {
      "q": "Do I need an account or any tools?",
      "a": "No account beyond the chat app. Paste the room card into ChatGPT, Claude, or Gemini to begin. Verifying the seal uses any SHA-256 tool, including ones built into your operating system."
    }
  ]
}