؟ ([personal profile] dramatispersonae) wrote2012-10-20 10:39 am

Game Post

[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
This poll is closed.
Open to: Registered Users, detailed results viewable to: All, participants: 15


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.))
existentiallychallenged: (Potatoes don't eat steak.)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 12:25 am (UTC)(link)
Like a diagonal down the middle. Or... something.
heroinhisowntime: (29)

[personal profile] heroinhisowntime 2012-10-21 12:33 am (UTC)(link)
It's possible. I guess a diagonal would work.
existentiallychallenged: (The dog kicked the little girl.)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 12:39 am (UTC)(link)
If I made a game like this, that would be the answer.
heroinhisowntime: (8)

[personal profile] heroinhisowntime 2012-10-21 12:40 am (UTC)(link)
There are still two diagonals, though... and guessing the wrong one means you're completely wrong.
existentiallychallenged: (did I hire a PLAN CRITICIZER?)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 12:41 am (UTC)(link)
...It was kind of a joke at first, but if you think of it that way, it makes the stakes even higher...
existentiallychallenged: (John dined two pounds heavier.)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 12:49 am (UTC)(link)
Then it's all-or-nothing, when usually if you did a diagonal you would probably get at least one fox! ...Right? Maybe?

It doesn't really matter for me anyway, since I don't think we're doing a diagonal...
heroinhisowntime: (1)

[personal profile] heroinhisowntime 2012-10-21 12:55 am (UTC)(link)
Does Emerald have some ideas already?
existentiallychallenged: (boobonic plague)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 12:58 am (UTC)(link)
I was thinking we could vote for Iolite in our row, so then we don't have to hurt anybody's feelings on Turquoise or Sapphire...
heroinhisowntime: (27)

[personal profile] heroinhisowntime 2012-10-21 01:03 am (UTC)(link)
Heh, that's one way to do it.
existentiallychallenged: (The dog kicked the little girl.)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 01:07 am (UTC)(link)
[THEN AN IOLITE SHOWED UP AND I'M CONFUSED]

...Yeah...
heroinhisowntime: (6)

[personal profile] heroinhisowntime 2012-10-21 01:18 am (UTC)(link)
...Er... Do you think he's lying...? About... being the liar...
existentiallychallenged: (I'm now also racist against that phrase!)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 01:22 am (UTC)(link)
Why would you lie about something like that...?? Is he going for the suicidal bonus prize?
existentiallychallenged: (The dog kicked the little girl.)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 01:33 am (UTC)(link)
...If you got a prize for that, then everyone could try it...
heroinhisowntime: (73)

[personal profile] heroinhisowntime 2012-10-21 01:46 am (UTC)(link)
She probably wouldn't give out prizes if everyone did it. Maybe he's just trying to stand out.
existentiallychallenged: (LISTEN THAT'S NOT HOW THEY WORK)

[personal profile] existentiallychallenged 2012-10-21 01:47 am (UTC)(link)
Is that a foxlike thing to do or... a not-foxlike thing to do...?