On 1/31/2019 10:31 AM, Aris Merchant wrote:
I'd like to work on this. With regard to looping wins, I think we
should give some people some sort of additional prize, probably in the
form of a patent title, for proving that they *could* win an infinite
(or finite but very large) number of times. What about Infinite
Jestor/Jester?
Just as some food for thought, the "cleanup procedure" we had at one point
seemed to work pretty well. From R2186/9, circa 2010:
Each Winning Condition should (if needed) specify a cleanup
procedure to prevent an arbitrary number of wins arising from
essentially the same conditions. When one or more persons win
the game:
a) For each Winning Condition satisfied by at least one of
those persons, its cleanup procedure (if any) occurs.
b) Each of those persons ceases to satisfy any Winning
Conditions.
Example:
While a player is the only active first-class player not to
satisfy at least one Losing Condition, e satisfies the Winning
Condition of Solitude.
Cleanup procedure: The same person cannot satisfy this Winning
Condition again until at least one other player ceases to
satisfy any Losing Condition.
Or:
If this rule mentions at least six different specific colors for
Ribbons, then upon a win announcement that one or more players
each possess at least one Ribbon of each such color, all those
players satisfy the Winning Condition of Renaissance.
Cleanup procedure: For each of those players, one Ribbon of
each such color in eir possession is destroyed.
