Hivemind

[unreality]

Hivemind

"and ye shall know the collective power of the Group..."

Hivemind is a game I invented that deals with themes of deception, sociology, psychology, statistics and trust. I'm starting this game elsewhere as well, (feel free to join both) and am going to see how the different games pan out.

The game works in the following stages:

1) Signup: for the first game I want 10 players, that seems like a good number.

2) Selection: each player, WITHOUT ANY DELIBERATION WHATSOEVER WITH ANY POTENTIAL PLAYERS, will PM the host (me) with their "team choice". There are two teams, A and B. Each player can choose to go on either team, and the decision is not shared or discussed with anyone during this stage.

3) Gameplay: As soon as everyone has PMed me their team choice, I announce in this topic that the game has begun! From that point on, the goal of the game is for each team to discover itself and the enemy. Players can PM other players (please CC all PMs to the host [me] so I have a grasp on what's going on, even though you don't strictly have to) with the intent of discovering their team... but how truthful is the PMer? And how truthful is the responder? Like I said, it's a game of deception and trust.

Players can also post as much as they want on this public thread, but of course everyone can see it.

A team wins when one of its players PMs me with a complete list of who is on A and who is on B. If the list is incorrect in any way, the player "dies" (is kicked out of the game and can no longer send or receive game-related PMs or help out his team or hurt the other team) and everyone learns what team he was on.

If the player is correct, then his team wins, and the other team loses

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Signups:

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I'm shooting for 6-10 players depending on how signups go

[unreality]

Eugh, I knew I should have talked to UD. Oh well. I figured I was right because of the crazy amount of people already on Team A.

ah, the classic Gambler's Fallacy Just because you just flipped 20 heads in a row doesn't make tails more likely on the next flip ;D (hehe actually I'd say HEADS is more likely since something's probably wrong with the coin)

anyway, thanks for playing, again, everyone

[Guest]

Haha, I was gonna pick B becuase I tend to go for the less likely, but then I figured I should go against my own social patterns and pick A xD

My hint always mentioned the word "eh" ;D People just assumed I'm just being Canadian

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[Izzy]

Haha, I was gonna pick B becuase I tend to go for the less likely, but then I figured I should go against my own social patterns and pick A xD

See, that's why I misinterpreted your hint. I assumed A was the stereotypical choice (as we can clearly see was, lol), and you were like "Eh, I'm not the stereotype." so I'm like "Cool, we're on teams!" And then CP said she was A, so I'm like "...whut...."

[Guest]

Great game! Thanks for hosting!

Izzy, we almost had it TEAM C FTW

[Izzy]

Great game! Thanks for hosting!

Izzy, we almost had it TEAM C FTW

Man, we could have won. I should have PM'd you to change my UD guess instead of Randro one in case I died.

Oh well, Team C will dominate always. ;P

[Guest]

well I chose team A just cuz it was the first to pop into my head.

I was hoping to wait it out till more people guessed.

There was no rhyme or reason to the way I played this game.