Can you spot the larp? Ten screens, real or staged
Ten screens show off a total, a trade, a swap or a ranking. Decide whether each one is real or staged, read the tell we point out, and get the reveal once you are done. Two short questions on proof close the quiz.
Your answers never leave this page, nothing is stored and no account exists. As on every page here, anonymous counts of starts and finishes are added (privacy). For fun, not proof.
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A staged screen that admits it is staged
Every screen in the game was a mockup, made on purpose and revealed at the end. The honest way to use the same craft is a prop for a video or a deck, labelled as a prop. Open the demo and make yours.
Flexdger Wallet simulates a wallet. It is a mockup with no funds and no link to any blockchain, and a wallet screen is a prop, never evidence of holdings or profit.
Spotting a larp on a screenshot
A screenshot larp is a brag that was assembled instead of earned: a total, a profit card, a ranking or a payment notice made to look like a result. The word is short for live action role play. Someone steps into the role of a winner, and the screen supplies the costume. What makes it an old trick with a new look is that the audience is asked to accept the picture in place of the facts.
Making one takes very little. A mockup tool, the inspect panel of a browser or a wallet simulator can draw a believable screen from any figures, and a photo editor can change a digit in seconds. For that reason, people who spend time online learned to shrug at screenshots. Staged ones rarely get caught by their look. They get caught by their arithmetic.
The tells in this quiz are the repeat offenders. A change in percent that does not match the amounts. A profit larger than the trade could produce. A date that is not on the calendar. A swap that returns more than the price allows. A ranking with the same name twice. Shares of a pie that sum to more than the whole. Not one of them proves anything alone, and a screen with no tell proves nothing either.
That is the point of the reveal. All ten screens were made by us, the clean ones too, and none is tied to a real person. If you called the tidy ones real, you did what almost everybody does and trusted neatness. Neatness is precisely what careful staging produces, and it costs nothing to add.
A prop made on purpose for a video, a skit or a deck, and presented as a prop, is honest craft. A screen used to win money or trust is not. The pixels can be identical, and what changes is the claim wrapped around them, which is why a screen should never be treated as evidence.
Common questions about this larp test
Are these screens real?
No. We drew all ten ourselves, the plain ones included. The numbers and handles are invented, no real person appears, and each screen is only a mockup. The reveal near the end of the quiz says so.
How can I tell a staged screenshot from a real one?
Redo the arithmetic. Rows should add up to the total, percentages should follow from prices, quantity times price should equal value, dates should exist and lists should be sorted the way the app would sort them. Even then, a clean screen proves nothing by itself.
What is the difference between a mockup and a larp?
A mockup is a staged screen made for a purpose such as a design, a skit or a deck, and it says so. A larp is a staged screen presented as the real thing. The picture can be the same, and the claim around it is what differs.
Why is 'reads as staged' the skeptic answer on every screen?
All ten screens are mockups, so doubting any of them is the correct instinct. Your skeptic score counts the screens you doubted plus the two lesson questions you answered correctly.
Are my answers kept?
No. Scoring happens in your browser, no account exists, and neither an answer nor a pasted line leaves the page. The site only counts that a quiz began and that it finished, with nobody attached, as it does for any page.
Does a result prove anything?
No. A result is for fun, not proof. The card reflects the answers you gave and nothing besides: not your holdings, not your income, not who you are, and no balance appears on it.
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This quiz comes from Flexdger Wallet, a crypto wallet simulator that turns the figures you enter into a phone screen. It is a mockup and never a wallet. Another free tool nearby: the crypto portfolio calculator.