The sub-game tournament seems stuck, but regardless I don't want this to get
lost.
I'm open to suggestions on how to clearly format the three-level list in the
rule.
Proto: Agoran Bingo (AI=1)
[The person running a bingo game is often called the caller. Agoran spelling
would make that Callor. My eyes want to read that as "caal-lore" and since
it's the same letters, I just changed it to Collar out of whimsy.]
Create a rule entitled "Agoran Bingo" with power 1 reading:
The Collar is an elected office responsible for administering Agoran Bingo.
The Collar SHOULD try to enact and maintain administrative regulations defining:
* one or more methods for players to select a bingo board; the Collar SHOULD
define these methods such that:
** there is at least one method that permits a player to keep eir bingo
board secret until e calls bingo
** a player cannot change eir selection once made
** a player cannot choose in advance with certainty the board e will end up with
** for each method of selecting a bingo board, the regulation specifies:
*** what information, if any, a player electing that method MUST reveal in
order to successfully call bingo; and
*** what information, if any, the Collar MUST include in eir weekly report
for each player electing that method
* the conditions that can be included on a player's bingo board; and
* one or more winning bingo patterns
Bingo state is a singleton switch tracked by the Collar with possible values
paused (default) and unpaused.
If the bingo state is paused, the Collar CAN flip it to unpaused by
announcement, and e SHOULD do so unless there is reasonable uncertainty as
to the current bingo state or the validity of a claimed bingo, or the Collar
is actively drafting, discussing, or trying to enact or amend eir
administrative regulations. When the bingo state is paused, a player CANNOT
select a bingo board and CANNOT call bingo.
If the bingo state is unpaused, a player whose bingo board contains at least
one winning pattern of conditions that are all satisfied CAN call bingo by
announcement. (For clarity, the states of any conditions not in the winning
pattern are irrelevant.) Eir announcement:
1) MUST specify the claimed winning pattern and the conditions it contains;
2) MUST reveal any information required by the adminstrative regulations; and
3) SHOULD include evidence demonstrating that each of the conditions in the
winning pattern is satisfied, other than any conditions where such
satisfaction is already clearly obvious.
When a player successfully calls bingo, e wins the game, the bingo state is
flipped to paused, and all existing bingo board selections are null and void.
--
Mischief
Collector, Illuminator, Notary, Prime Minister
Hat: steampunk hat
Vitality: ghostly
Bang holdings: 0
