Sumaiya

I ve been working on HUNCH, a game where you re dropped into different scam scenarios and have to decide what s legit, what feels suspicious, and what you should probably stay away from.

The idea was to make scam awareness feel less like reading another 10 things you should never do online post and more like actually testing yourself.

The scenarios start simple but get progressively harder, with timed decisions, XP, streaks, and different levels. The goal isn't just to know what a scam looks like it s to see whether you can recognize one when you re actually making the decision.

HUNCH is now live and I d love to get it in front of more people here.

While building HUNCH, I noticed something interesting: the hardest scenarios aren't necessarily the ones with the most complicated scams.

They're the ones that look normal.

A familiar company. A reasonable request. A message that isn't badly written. A little urgency. Nothing immediately screams SCAM, but something just feels slightly off.

HUNCH is an interactive scam-awareness game built around a simple question: can you recognize a scam when you re actually put in the situation?

Instead of presenting scam awareness as a list of rules, HUNCH turns it into a series of decisions. You re given a scenario, you have limited time to respond, and your choices determine how you progress through the game.

I ve tried to make the scenarios progressively less obvious, because recognizing an obviously fake message isn t particularly interesting. The harder part is figuring out what to do when something looks almost legitimate.

I m sharing it here because I m at the stage where feedback is much more useful than another round of building things in isolation.