Lucifer’s Lantern includes a hidden game that begins outside the site’s main navigation. A Game Built Around Research The hidden game is not a conventional history quiz. Players are not simply asked to remember names and dates. Each research task presents a problem to solve, often through a visual puzzle, a reconstructed document, a map, a comparison between texts, or another small game mechanic tied to the historical subject. A player might need to arrange torn lines from an old book, compare different editions of a passage, or identify a detail buried in a newspaper account. The screen supplies the challenge, but the answer may be waiting in a nineteenth-century source, a digitized book, an article, or an obscure historical record. Guessing may occasionally get someone through, but the tasks are designed to reward people who stop, search, read, and check what they find. Each success opens the way to another piece of the larger game. Why the Research Comes First Lucifer’...