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’...
Discussion of changes to the Book of Mormon often settles into two opposing claims: either the book has remained essentially unchanged since 1830, or later editors rewrote it beyond recognition. The reality is that both positions carry a bit of truth. Although the main narrative remains recognizable, the book has changed in several distinct ways. Its wording and grammar were revised in the early editions.⁶ , ⁷ The chapter and verse system was reorganized in 1879, while chapter summaries were added in 1920.¹⁹ Those summaries and other study aids were revised again in 2013 and 2025.²⁰ , ²¹ Following these changes in chronological order makes their differences easier to see. The history begins with dictation in 1829 and continues through the original and printer’s manuscripts, the 1830 printing, Joseph Smith’s revisions, and the later editorial committees that produced the modern edition. Tracing that sequence also makes it possible to distinguish changes to the script...