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The Impostor Was Never Dealt. So We Made the Deal Provable.

This is a submission for the MLH x DEV Writing Challenge What I Built The last time Ayush Kumar and I entered the same hackathon, he led the team that beat us. His team took first on our track. Mine took second. So when MLH's Midnight Hackathon opened in July, we made sure that couldn't happen again. This time he was on our team. What the four of us built that weekend started with nine lines of…

Back in July, Ayush Kumar and I decided to join the same hackathon as last year, but this time, we went as a team. When the MLH Midnight Hackathon opened in July, we made sure that our team wouldn't face the same situation. We built an open-source Among Us clone that determined the impostor based on player IDs. Our method worked by checking the highest player ID and making the corresponding player the impostor. This approach ensured that the player with the highest ID would be the impostor in every match.

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