On Thu, 12 Jun 2008, Quazie wrote: > ooh, i miss the card games. Didn't you end up winning the last one by > usinga card to draw another card, and then that card allowed you to > undo your last card played?
Yah, that was the first win-by-paradox. The contest I was talking about was not those cards tho. There were 6 colored card types that you could trade (like ribbons or something) to make your hand. There were scoring rules like "Every pair of blue cards is worth 5 points" "If you have an odd number of red cards, lose 10 points" "every yellow card in excess of five is treated as green" "if you have more than 10 green cards, lose 20 points". Etc. The point was each player started out knowing only 1 or 2 of the N scoring rules, then were allowed to trade cards (or hot-potato away cards, if you gave one to someone they got it whether they wanted it or not). They could also trade scoring rules, or misinformation about scoring rules, and whoever has the best hand at the moment the round ends wins. -Goethe
