Game Post

[dramatispersonae]

[The doors along the veranda suddenly snap open, revealing one room for every team. Each team's room is marked with a small banner in their color.]

Coral	Ruby	Jasper	Citrine
Carnelian	Tiger's Eye	Heliodor	Peridot
Emerald	Turquoise	Sapphire	Iolite
Amethyst	Kunzite	Sterling	Onyx

Poll #11904 Suspicion Poll

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Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15

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Row One

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Coral
8 (53.3%)

Ruby
4 (26.7%)

Jasper
2 (13.3%)

Citrine
1 (6.7%)

Row Two

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Carnelian
3 (20.0%)

Tiger's Eye
1 (6.7%)

Heliodor
7 (46.7%)

Peridot
4 (26.7%)

Row Three

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Emerald
1 (6.7%)

Turquoise
0 (0.0%)

Sapphire
5 (33.3%)

Iolite
9 (60.0%)

Row Four

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Amethyst
3 (20.0%)

Kunzite
8 (53.3%)

Sterling
3 (20.0%)

Onyx
1 (6.7%)

Instructions: I have heard of the games before, wolves and sheep. They didn't seem much fun. This time, it is just a game and perhaps something much quicker. How does this sound—I've picked four teams to be my special foxes. It is their job to work together and stay hidden. The rest of you against them (do I have to call you anything, since you're just normal?) will try to find them within the next three hours.

But to make things more fair, there will be a clue. You see all the teams arranged just so? In each row and each column, there will be only one fox team. That helps, doesn't it? I think it should.

When your team thinks it knows who's a fox, place a vote on them. You have one vote per team, per row. If you have not voted when time runs out, then I won't be able to score you for whether you were right or not...

Foxes will receive points for every team who doesn't vote for them and a large bonus if no fox teams are considered the most suspicious, so it's to their benefit to work together.

The rest of you will get points for guessing right and a large bonus if you get all four teams right.

On the other hand...

There might be some bonuses for other things as well—but it's more fun if you don't know everything, right?

It is a game, so it should be fun.

((Reply directly to this post for discussion!

ETA: Absent teams MAY be foxes, or may not be.))

Comments

[thankyouverymooch]

A guessing game, is it...

[performing]

Maybe the bonus will be large quantities of food.

[thankyouverymooch]

Hahah. Now that would be too good to be true.

[performing]

Maybe if we wish really hard.

[tsunbender]

A very random one.

[thankyouverymooch]

The hint she gave isn't even a good one. How are we even supposed to find out?

[tsunbender]

Pick teams at random?

[uneulogized]

Educated guess.

[thankyouverymooch]

She isn't even giving us food.

[uneulogized]

Someone's greedy.

[glorious]

A guessing game with teams. Therefore, it'll likely become a glorified popularity contest unless someone drops a clue that can't be ignored.

[thankyouverymooch]

This sure sounds like a lot of effort.

[glorious]

If you know many of the people here, you can see who's acting the most unusual and go from there.

[wouldntkilladragon]

It looks like.

[thankyouverymooch]

Are we supposed to just pay attention to everyone? This sounds like too much effort.

[wouldntkilladragon]

Well, you could just try and figure out some?

[squirreledaway]

[hmm...] Yeah...

[thankyouverymooch]

[ that tone of voice means this is Emil ]

Hey there.

[squirreledaway]

[yes, yes it does. The eyes are green as well]

Hi. It... looks like we're in the same group, huh?

[blackjacked]

Not quite. A logic game.

[thankyouverymooch]

I'm not so sure about that. Even if observing people can help find out the foxes, with a vague hint like that we're still just guessing.

[blackjacked]

[points to the grid, tracing the rows with his finger]

But if you figure out even one fox team, you can mark out all of the other teams on that same row and column that aren't foxes. That narrows the pool much more easily.

[telepathetically]

Eenie meenie miney moe..

[thankyouverymooch]

—Mh? What's that?

[telepathetically]

—ah, it's a rhyme for picking things at random...