Winners of the 2023 IFComp
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| 1st place | Dr Ludwig and the Devil by
SV Linwood
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| 2nd place | LAKE Adventure by
B.J. Best
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| 3rd place | The Little Match Girl 4 by
Ryan Veeder
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| 4th place | Honk! by
Alex Harby
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| 5th place | The Vambrace of Destiny by
Arthur DiBianca
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| 6th place | Bali B&B by
Felicity_Banks
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| 7th place | LUNIUM by
Ben Jackson
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| 8th place | How Prince Quisborne the Feckless Shook His Title by
John Ziegler
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| 9th place | Assembly by
Ben Kirwin
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| 10th place | Put Your Hand Inside The Puppet Head by
The Hungry Reader
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| 11th place | To Sea in a Sieve by
J. J. Guest
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| 12th place | Xanthippe's Last Night with Socrates by
Victor Gijsbers
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| 13th place | Paintball Wizard by
Doug Egan
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| 14th place | Tricks of light in the forest by
Pseudavid
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| 15th place | Citizen Makane by
The Reverend
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| 16th place | Dysfluent by
Allyson Gray
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| 17th place | Hand Me Down by
Brett Witty
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| 18th place (tie) | One King to Loot them All by
Onno Brouwer
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| 18th place (tie) | Eat the Eldritch by
Olaf Nowacki
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| 20th place | Fix Your Mother's Printer by
Geoffrey Golden
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| 21st place | CODENAME OBSCURA by
Mika Kujala
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| 22nd place (tie) | Gestures Towards Divinity by
Charm Cochran
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| 22nd place (tie) | Ribald Bat Lady Plunder Quest by Joey Acrimonious |
| 24th place | Antony & Cleopatra: Case IV: The Murder of Marlon Brando by
Travis Moy
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| 25th place | My Brother; The Parasite by
qrowscant
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| 26th place | The Whisperers by
Milo van Mesdag
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| 27th place (tie) | Death on the Stormrider by
Daniel M. Stelzer
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| 27th place (tie) | Last Valentine's Day by
Daniel Gao
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| 29th place | My Pseudo-Dementia Exhibition by
Naomi Norbez (call me Bez, he/they)
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| 30th place | Detective Osiris by
Adam Burt
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| 31st place (tie) | The Gift of What You Notice More by
Xavid
and co-written by:
Zan
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| 31st place (tie) | Kaboom by By anonymous, artwork by Vera Pohl |
| 33rd place | The Whale's Keeper by
Ben Parzybok
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| 34th place | One Does Not Simply Fry by
Stewart C Baker and James Beamon
and co-written by:
James Beamon
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| 35th place | All the Troubles Come My Way by
Sam Dunnachie
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| 36th place | Bright Brave Knight Knave by
Andrew Schultz
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| 37th place | Beat Witch by
Robert Patten
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| 38th place | All Hands by Natasha Ramoutar |
| 39th place | The Finders Commission by
Deborah Sherwood
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| 40th place | Who Iced Mayor McFreeze? by
Damon L. Wakes
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| 41st place (tie) | Artful Deceit by
James O'Reilly
and co-written by:
Dian Mills O'Reilly
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| 41st place (tie) | One Knight Stand by
A. Hazard
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| 43rd place | The Ship by
Sotiris Niarchos
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| 44th place | The Long Kill by
James Blair
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| 45th place | DICK MCBUTTS GETS KICKED IN THE NUTS by Damon L. Wakes (writing as “Hubert Janus”) |
| 46th place (tie) | Milliways: the Restaurant at the End of the Universe by
Max Fog
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| 46th place (tie) | Trail Stash by
Andrew Schultz
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| 48th place | GameCeption by
Ruo
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| 49th place (tie) | Escape your psychosis by
Georg Buchrucker
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| 49th place (tie) | 20 Exchange Place by
Sol FC
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| 49th place (tie) | All Hands Abandon Ship by David Lee |
| 52nd place | Please Sign Here by
Michelle Negron
(writing as “Road”)
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| 53rd place (tie) | A Thing of Wretchedness by
AKheon
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| 53rd place (tie) | Lonehouse by
Ayu Sekarlangit Mokoginta
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| 55th place | Barcarolle in Yellow by
Víctor Ojuel
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| 56th place | Help! I Can't Find My Glasses! by
Lacey Green
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| 57th place (tie) | Lake Starlight by
SummersViaEarth
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| 57th place (tie) | Have Orb, Will Travel by
Jim MacBrayne
(writing as “Older Timer”)
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| 59th place | Last Vestiges by thesleuthacademy |
| 60th place | Shanidar, Safe Return by
Cecilia Dougherty
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| 61st place | Out of Scope by
Drew Castalia
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| 62nd place | We All Fall Together by
Camron Gonzalez
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| 63rd place | The Sculptor by
Yakoub Mousli
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| 64th place | Magor Investigates... by Larry Horsfield |
| 65th place | The Paper Magician by
Soojung Choi
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| 66th place | The Witch by
Charles Moore
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| 67th place | Virtue by
Oliver Revolta
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| 68th place | In The Details by
M.A. Shannon
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| 69th place | The Engima of Solaris by jkj yuio |
| 70th place | Creative Cooking by dott. Piergiorgio |
| 71st place | Into The Lion's Mouth by Metalflower |
| 72nd place | Meritocracy by Ronynn ʕ •ᴥ•ʔ |
| 73rd place | For Eternity, Again and Again by TheChosenGiraffe |
| 74th place | Hawkstone by Handsome McStranger |
The organizer of the 2023 Annual Interactive Fiction Competition was Jacqueline Ashwell.