FAKEVINYL
Four album covers. One is real. Three are convincing fakes. Five rounds of pure paranoia, 200 points each — and yes, the real one looks just as wrong sometimes.
Trust your eyes.
Four covers
Each round shows four versions of an album. Three are convincing fakes generated to throw you off.
Pick the real
One tap. No re-do. Look at typography, era, the texture — fakes get the vibe wrong somewhere.
Five rounds
Right answer, 200 points. Wrong, zero. Daily streak counts on participation, not perfection.
How Fakevinyl works.
Fakevinyl shows you four album covers. One is the real, released cover. Three are AI-generated fakes designed to look plausible — wrong fonts, wrong era cues, wrong artist styling, wrong-but-close. Pick the real one across five rounds.
The rules
- Five rounds per daily Fakevinyl.
- Each round shows four covers, with the artist and album title visible.
- Three covers are fakes; one is real.
- Tap the cover you think is real to lock in.
- Instant feedback shows which one was real.
How points work
Each correct pick scores. Wrong picks score zero. There is no penalty beyond losing the round, and no time pressure. Five-of-five rounds correct earns a bonus.
A worked round
The artist is shown as a 1990s alternative rock band you vaguely remember. Two of the four covers use a chunky Helvetica title (right era), one uses Comic Sans (wrong era — fake), one uses a script font (also wrong era — fake). Of the two Helvetica covers, one shows a clearly AI-warped photograph; the other shows a clean studio shot. You pick the clean studio shot. Correct.
What makes the fakes
Fake covers are generated with care to land in a plausible-but-off zone. The point is not to trick you with photoreal forgeries — it is to test whether you actually remember the cover or are pattern-matching on era. Fakes are reviewed before they ship; report any that feel unfair to support@criticscale.com.