Can anyone propose a game?

Oh I see. Thanks for mentioning! Well the game I had in mind was pretty straightforward actually. It's called Elusive Shareholders, and here it is explained:

Entry tax of 5 Poker Chips.
It would require any even number of people between 6 and 12 to enter. After they're all in, they will be randomly separated into 2 groups. There will be 7 rounds of game play. The game is point-based, and everyone begins with 0 points.

Every round, each player will have to privately tell the dealer whether they want to Pass it or Risk it. Every player is paired with someone from the opposing team at random, and their choice determines the outcome thusly:

Pass is...pass.

If one says risk and one pass, the one risking receives his bet.

If both risk different amounts, the one risking LESS receives the difference and the one risking more loses an amount equal to half what he risked rounded up.

If both risk the same amount, both lose that amount.

A player is forced to Pass at least 2 of the 7 rounds, and Risk 2 of the 7 rounds. If a player risked 5 times in a row, the dealer automatically assumes Pass for him until the game ends (and vice-versa).

A rather interesting twist of the game happens when EVERYONE within a team happens to choose either Risk or Pass. If everyone chooses Pass, they are all treated as if they had sent Risk 5. If everyone chooses Risk, they all simply lose 5 each and the Risk is not rolled.

Scores are NOT public. Here's how the game pans out: right after rounds 2 and 6, the dealer will tell which team has a higher point total (calculated by adding up the total number of points of everyone in the team). He will not state the point total of the teams, or how large the difference is, but simply which team has more points.

After the game is completely finished, the scores and choices of every individual player are revealed, and the team with the highest point total is regarded as the winner. Now here is how the prizes are set:

1. Every player with positive nonzero score (1+ points), regardless if he was on the winning or losing team, will receive 5 Poker Chips.
2. The player on the winning team with the most points will receive 5 Poker Chips for every player that failed to achieve a positive nonzero score until the end of the game. If both teams has the same score the player with the highest score in the game wins. If the winning team has two or more people with the same highest score, they split the winnings. In the rare occurrence that all players have a positive nonzero score, this player will simply be awarded 5 Poker Chips. In the even rarer occurrence that all players have a positive nonzero score, and there are two players on the winning team with the same highest score, they both receive 5 Poker Chips.

Rule of Betrayal: if you believe you are the highest scoring player in the game, but you know your team is on a losing streak, you may private message the dealer with your choice to Betray. If you do this, you will be treated as the winner if your team loses, and the loser if your team wins. You may only betray once.

Rule of Suspicion: if you believe someone betrays, you may private message the dealer with his name. You may only do this for a single player the entire game. If the target did indeed betray (it doesn't matter on whose team he is or you are) AND manages to be the highest scoring player in the winning team, after the game ends he will receive 5 less Poker Chips, which will be instead granted to you. However, if there are more Suspicions on a player than he earns (i.e. 4 people suspect him but he only wins 15 Poker Chips), then the chips are given on a first come first served basis (the 4th suspecter gets nada).


So these are all the rules. Would you like me to write up a sample game?

Perhaps rather than luck, the winning team is the one which bets more yen than the other? Or something?

Perhaps you would also like to add a non-random mechanism for pairing players, too?

*Scratched Out* I posted this part of the reply before I realized certain things. Turns out it would make things worse. Go ahead and keep the pairings random, it does an awesome job nerfing alliances.

Some questions:
1. Am I informed about the results of my own decision? Because I happen to find that good to know.
2. What happens when we have a tie regarding the winning team?
3. What happens if NOBODY is positive score? Say, we all do Risk-5 for the 5 rounds we're allowed.


Also, I don't mean to belittle or hate on your game, but at "first" glance it appears to be -EV with both sides playing the optimal strategy based on the current rules (so far as I can tell, but I'm still crunching numbers). I might make another post when I figure it out. I think you may have picked up on it too based on a couple of your rules, and then went ahead to try and mitigate what I have in mind.

Alright, I've spent enough time analyzing this game on its current mechanics. I won't explain my findings here, but I can summarize this game as strategy rock-paper-scissors. I'm not saying that's bad or anything like that. Rather, it could be an opportunity to do a little profiling on other players.


By the way, is the NAME of the player stated from round 4's score announcement? Either way, that particular rule has the potential to give an unfair advantage. I'd feel more comfortable if it conformed to rounds 2 and 6.

If the rules remain as they are, I will join.