Game Ideas

[esrever]

I have some ideas for future games:

1. Think Same. The object is to score the most points with correct answers. It would be scored like Think Different, except that wrong answers would be worth zero points.

2. Think Different or Think Same in which the participants are allowed to look up the answers.

3. Guesstimania in which the participants try to guess the closest to the correct answer without going over. All players guessing more than the correct answer would be eliminated, as would the one player who is the farthest under. Play would continue until one player (the winner) remains. If any elimination would result in no players remaining, then the players would stay in the game for the next question.

4. Think Different, Think Same, and other games that allow each participant to enter multiple times (up to five, say). This would allow each participant to employ several different strategies and maybe increase his or her likelihood of winning. For example, if a participant had the user name of Cheater, then this person could enter using players named Cheater_1, Cheater_2, Cheater_3, Cheater_4, and Cheater_5. Wouldn't it be fun to track your five players and to see how well each one does? I certainly thought it was fun (and sometimes with more than five players), but of course I did it against the rules.

5. Cal-Q-Late. A game in which the participants do calculations in their heads, without any aids like pencil/paper or calculators. Each question would have a tolerance band in which the answer must fall. Give the number of acres in 4 square miles, plus or minus 100 acres. Give the weight of 12 gallons of water, plus or minus 5 pounds. Give the number of seconds in the year 2013, plus or minus 1 million seconds. You get the idea. The game would be single-elimination, with all participants giving a wrong answer being eliminated. If the elimination would result in no players remaining, then the players would stay in the game for the next question. The winner would be last person remaining.

[jjwaymee]

Why are you still here?

[gamawire]

Why are you still here?

This.

[BobF]

Somebody did a Think Same a couple of years ago.

viewtopic.php?f=1&t=55&hilit=undifferent

BARandall hosted it.

[lieph82]

Almost makes me sympathize with Nurse Ratched.

[ihavejeoprosy]

Just get out. You should play a game called doctor with a real psychotherapist taking care of your issues and the idiotic characters you make up.

[whatisbishkek]

I'm saying this in all seriousness; I really do hope that you can get help because it really does seem like you have some issues.

[Vanya]

On this forum they play more variations of Sheep/Think same and Think different than you can imagine:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59/pu ... her-games/

[hscer]

I had to look at the time stamp a half-dozen times. It really does say today, August 28, 2014.

[lieph82]

On this forum they play more variations of Sheep/Think same and Think different than you can imagine:

http://forumserver.twoplustwo.com/59/pu ... her-games/

You are underestimating this guy's imagination.

[CrunchyTaco]

How have you not been banned?

[econgator]

How have you not been banned?

Right? Get on that Andy.

(I think he's on vacation or something.)

[BobF]

How have you not been banned?

Frankly, I don't think banning will do much good. He'd be able to go incognito with a new user name. I'd rather he just keep the user name and just be banned from games.

[Tpmorrison]

For example, if a participant had the user name of Cheater, then this person could enter using players named Cheater_1, Cheater_2, Cheater_3, Cheater_4, and Cheater_5. Wouldn't it be fun to track your five players and to see how well each one does? I certainly thought it was fun (and sometimes with more than five players), but of course I did it against the rules.

Seriously, bud??? What the heck is wrong with you?

[esrever]

For example, if a participant had the user name of Cheater, then this person could enter using players named Cheater_1, Cheater_2, Cheater_3, Cheater_4, and Cheater_5. Wouldn't it be fun to track your five players and to see how well each one does? I certainly thought it was fun (and sometimes with more than five players), but of course I did it against the rules.

Seriously, bud??? What the heck is wrong with you?

Of course, it was wrong for me to cheat by using multiple players in the TDs and other games the way they are set up now. But if the rules were changed to allow each person to have multiple players, I see nothing wrong with that. It's like a horse owner having multiple horses in the same race, or a NASCAR team having multiple cars in the same race. It might increase one's likelihood of winning.

[JoshuaRQI]

The point of the game is to have no idea what other people are thinking or submitting. That's the FUN of it. How it could be interesting any other way I don't know.

[dhkendall]

For example, if a participant had the user name of Cheater, then this person could enter using players named Cheater_1, Cheater_2, Cheater_3, Cheater_4, and Cheater_5. Wouldn't it be fun to track your five players and to see how well each one does? I certainly thought it was fun (and sometimes with more than five players), but of course I did it against the rules.

Seriously, bud??? What the heck is wrong with you?

Of course, it was wrong for me to cheat by using multiple players in the TDs and other games the way they are set up now. But if the rules were changed to allow each person to have multiple players, I see nothing wrong with that. It's like a horse owner having multiple horses in the same race, or a NASCAR team having multiple cars in the same race. It might increase one's likelihood of winning.

Or, you know, you could just have the question read "Name 5of the 15 largest states in the US" so everyone has the multiple entry angle - as a mod I frown quite severely on people creating socks here for any reason.

You seem to have forgotten that the flaw in your games as outlined is giving everyone the same chance, so it's not really an advantage. It only is so when just one person does it, especially if they don't tell anyone, that's what you did.