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The Coin Game (Ended) Isaac Send a noteboard - 21/09/2010 08:06:24 PM
The game has started, see further down in the thread for details

As some may or may not know, I've been screwing around with alternative games we might play, trying to find ones that seem like they'd work for our forum. Anyway, this is the first attempt, borrowed from Mafiascum's The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash Forum, its a quickie, game rounds for this trial will go for 48 hours each, and the number of rounds should be one less than the number of players who sign on, very small time commitment. This seemed an appropriate choice for a first attempt since it's very easy and requires little involvement thus won't step on any other games going on currently.


Rules
  • You start off with 1000 coins
  • Every round you NB me how many you want to spend
  • If you submit the lowest, you're out
  • If you submit the second lowest, you get all coins you spent back that round
  • If you fail to submit coins, you will receive a strike and a random submission. If you fail to submit again, you will be eliminated.
  • If a tie occurs for lowest, both are eliminated, if tied for second, both get refunded, otherwise ties don't matter
  • Last man standing wins!

    So here's how this will work, for the trial, we'll do registration for a couple days. Then Play begins, everyone NBs me their value, and when everyone submits or 48 hours pass, the round ends, and I post what everyone bid, what their new totals are, and who got eliminated. Those who don't submit will automatically bid a random number 1-1000, or 1 to their remaining total on subsequent days. I'll probably use invisible castle for generating that value if someone skips.

    Example of play - John, Bob, Larry, Susan, Jessie

    Round 1
    Players have 1000 coins, and NB their bid.
    John - 17
    Bob - 154
    Larry - 209
    Susan - 101
    Jessie - 235

    John bid lowest, and is eliminated. Susan bid second lowest and gets to keep her coins

    John
    Bob - 846
    Larry - 791
    Susan - 1000
    Jessie - 765

    Round 2 starts, players send in bids
    Bob - 300
    Larry - 201
    Susan - 99
    Jessie - 205

    This time, Susan risked too low a bid, and gets eliminated, and Larry comes in second, and keeps his cash

    Round 2 tallies
    John
    Bob - 546
    Larry - 791
    Susan
    Jessie - 560

    Round 3
    Going into this one, Larry knows he can get away with spending more than Bob or Jessie, so he wagers pretty high
    Bob - 335
    Larry - 400
    Jessie - 364

    So Bob is out

    Bob
    Larry - 291
    Jessie - 560

    On Round 4, Jessie knows she can bid any number higher than 291 and win, so the game ends, Jessie is the winner.

    Basic strategy then is if you spend to little your out, but you want to spend as little as possible so you have it to bid on later days and if you hit second place you gain the advantage of keeping your money. Not a deep strategy or heavy posting game, but it goes quick, and might work well as a companion to our other games, since you could probably knock out a 5-7 players game during registration phase for a mafia game or a night phase, etc. Very little posting involved, pretty straightforward, minimal time commitment for all involved.

    Okay, who wants to give this a try? Probably aim to start Wednesday night Early Thursday, I'd considered allowing day 1 bids immediately on joining as a way of speeding things up but I think number of players in the game would have to logically effect initial bidding strategy.

    Players - 8
    Hobo
    Fox and Ravens
    Kronin al'Sulc
    Beetnemesis
    ?
    Amys
    LadyLorraine
    Ranagrande

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    This message last edited by Isaac on 28/09/2010 at 02:16:47 PM
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    The Coin Game (Ended) - 21/09/2010 08:06:24 PM 1999 Views
    Sounds fun. I'll try it. *NM* - 21/09/2010 08:13:07 PM 569 Views
    Yes! - 21/09/2010 08:45:06 PM 891 Views
    Cool stuff. I'm in. *NM* - 21/09/2010 09:01:56 PM 524 Views
    Sure, I'm in *NM* - 21/09/2010 09:06:52 PM 486 Views
    Sounds fun... - 21/09/2010 10:40:12 PM 824 Views
    Yes! *NM* - 22/09/2010 12:54:46 AM 473 Views
    I'm in! - 22/09/2010 02:05:47 AM 859 Views
    Eh, anything to get some LIFE in this board. *NM* - 23/09/2010 05:41:49 AM 469 Views
    I'll play *NM* - 22/09/2010 10:01:22 PM 467 Views
    How many players are we waiting for? - 23/09/2010 02:27:59 AM 826 Views
    6-10 was my original threshold, - 23/09/2010 09:18:10 AM 871 Views
    Round 1 - 23/09/2010 09:45:37 AM 874 Views
    No restrictions eh? - 23/09/2010 12:27:32 PM 947 Views
    Doesn't seem any need - 23/09/2010 01:24:22 PM 900 Views
    Eh, I was just kidding. - 23/09/2010 11:37:00 PM 947 Views
    You've clearly never learned to properly intimidate your players. - 24/09/2010 02:49:42 AM 862 Views
    Round 2 - 24/09/2010 12:58:31 AM 846 Views
    aw man i knew that was going to happen XD - 24/09/2010 02:32:54 AM 949 Views
    Oh...man. - 24/09/2010 04:21:52 AM 854 Views
    Round 3 - 24/09/2010 09:54:44 AM 888 Views
    Round 4 - 24/09/2010 11:49:05 PM 820 Views
    Have I really been consistantly voting the highest number? arggh! *NM* - 25/09/2010 02:43:51 AM 488 Views
    Round 5 - 27/09/2010 12:40:14 PM 926 Views
    Round 6 - 28/09/2010 01:17:03 AM 834 Views
    Wow, I thought for sure Fox was going to be out. - 28/09/2010 01:22:29 AM 782 Views
    Woo! 3 in a row! *NM* - 28/09/2010 06:31:04 AM 448 Views
    Final Results - 28/09/2010 02:22:36 PM 795 Views
    Woohooo!! - 28/09/2010 03:05:20 PM 818 Views
    Beet should have bid 212 for the lulz *NM* - 28/09/2010 05:54:06 PM 542 Views
    Saw that coming. Whatever, not too bad. *NM* - 28/09/2010 05:59:43 PM 478 Views
    Well that was fun. - 28/09/2010 09:25:55 PM 747 Views
    That's what she said. *NM* - 28/09/2010 09:40:39 PM 468 Views
    *NM* - 28/09/2010 10:16:07 PM 465 Views
    Well, any interest in a second game? - 29/09/2010 01:03:34 AM 848 Views
    I'm game. And I'm fine with either. *NM* - 29/09/2010 01:23:09 AM 467 Views
    What the heck, I'll play this time. - 29/09/2010 02:17:20 AM 807 Views

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