Games Like Hot Seat Triage

Triage is easy—until your own brain starts lying to you.

Hot Seat Triage is an arcade simulation about the lethal cognitive traps of real emergency rooms. The waiting room is overflowing, data is incomplete, and every patient carries a fading aura: a real-time countdown to decompensation.

Select a patient. Ask up to three questions. Assign priority: CRITICAL, URGENT, or STABLE.

The obvious diagnosis is usually the bait. Every single case is engineered around a real cognitive bias built to fool experienced minds and novices alike.

Authored by an Emergency Physician

Every scenario is designed and clinically reviewed by an active emergency physician and medical educator. Grounded in established clinical decision-making literature (Croskerry, Graber, Tversky & Kahneman), the game translates abstract cognitive biases into immediate, high-pressure gameplay.

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Expose Your Mind's Blind Spots

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