Re: DIS: Proposed Birthday Tournament Regulations Discussion

2019-06-08 Thread Cuddle Beam
Even with a net payout of zero, there’s always the Blognomic classic of two (or more, but generally two) co-conspirators randomly rolling among themselves which of them will be the ‘winner’ of the two, with the other being the ‘donator’. It generally pops up in dynasties with a format where player

Re: DIS: Proposed Birthday Tournament Regulations Discussion

2019-06-08 Thread Kerim Aydin
I'd submit 3 "impossible" riddles per week for 21 points guaranteed - can't see a block against that? Similar "riddle-making" games I've seen have penalties (e.g. 0 points) if no one else gets the riddle to penalize making them too hard. Also, two players could cross-invent a bunch of riddles

DIS: Proposed Birthday Tournament Regulations Discussion

2019-06-08 Thread Rance Bedwell
[I intend to add a section as follows: Gamemaster's weekly report:  The gamemaster SHALL publish a weekly report that tracks:  1. each riddle that has been published, the riddler, the date published, the plain text answer if the decryption key has already been published;  2. each published guess,