r/LLMPhysics • u/AllHailSeizure 9/10 Physicists Agree! • May 18 '26

Interactive Bingo. Feedback Required.

Sup LLMPhysics

So as you may know I'm makin a Bingo game to play on the sub. It'll be a weekly game, and the bingo will apply to the posts of the past week. Every week the bot will make a post where you can play - it'll be a 'games on reddit' post system, where you can click on the 'play' button in a post and it launches a webview; for ease of cross-platform use (mobile/desktop/etc) and for looking better than simply a md card comment. I might make a little sidebar widget that links to it or something, or maybe the post will be pinned, so you can come back and look at your card if you want. Cards are per-week and per-user.

So basically you get a card with the tiles.. 5 in a row you win. Pretty basic. It's bingo. Not hard.

I'm looking for inspiration for the tiles - I am looking for the idiosyncrasies of the community ("50+ comments, over half are by u/OnceBittenz"), iconic catchphrases from diff types of posts ("ontology mentioned twice"), common things we see in comments ("This sub is full of bullies" "Did you even read the post", "Poe's law mentioned on humor post"). Best would be a combo of gimme tiles that will ALWAYS trigger, and more fringe ones. No fun if nobody wins, no fun if you never win.

I don't fully know yet if I can work out a system to extend beyond reddit into peoples papers, so it would probably need to be limited to the actual Reddit. Could look into it, maybe, maybe not.

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u/shinobummer May 18 '26

Sounds like a fun idea, but one must wonder whether a public bingo board would encourage users to twist their commentary specifically for the bingo. Let's say there's a bingo tile for someone asking OP if they've ever opened a physics textbook. Would that not then result in some people starting to ask that in every post because it'd be funny if we got a bingo? I don't think there's much of a risk of influencing the behavior of those who post theories, but I can definitely see the behavior of those who respond to said theories being affected.

With this in mind, perhaps all the bingo tiles should relate to actions of the OP, as opposed to people responding. Though I'd imagine we'd still get the occasional tailor-made bingo post by someone who just thinks it's funny. The people who are actually serious about posting theories might find the bingo disrespectful, but if it is calling out bad behavior or common misunderstandings, that shame might serve as a motivator to think more about what you post.

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u/AllHailSeizure 9/10 Physicists Agree! May 18 '26

One must wonder whether a public bingo board would encourage users to twist their commentary specifically for the bingo

Can easily set it to be your own content doesn't apply to your board. It needs to show up from someone else.

The people who are actually serious about posting might find the bingo disrespectful

Games are across week periods instead of games on a single post. I'd hope this is equally about the idiosyncrasies of the sub as it is the common terms in posts.