Secret Soulmate

🌺 Main Match 2: Secret Soulmate 🌺

Who's your secret soulmate? Collect points, but don't let them anguish.

You have a secret soulmate that not even you know. Each round, you play a number card, which is secretly compared to your soulmate; the higher number wins a point. The player with the least points becomes the loser, and their soulmate can't win.

RULES

🀄 You begin the game with nine number cards: three numbered 1, three numbered 2, and three numbered 3. Number cards are tradable within a meadow, but only on a one-for-one basis.

🀄 In addition, you will begin with some point tokens. Point tokens are tradable freely within a meadow. The number of point tokens you get depends on the size of the meadow:

• Players in 1-player meadows start with three point tokens each.
• Players in 2-player meadows start with two point tokens each.
• All other players start with one point token each.

💎 You may purchase point tokens at any time during the MM, at 1 point token for 2 garnets. Point tokens cannot be sold.

You also have been assigned a secret soulmate, by pairing the players randomly. No player knows who your secret soulmate is, not even yourself. You have to deduce your secret soulmate through in-game actions. Your secret soulmate has you as their secret soulmate; that is, you have been divided into pairs of secret soulmates.

The game is divided into 9 rounds.

🧠 In each round, you play one number card you have. You must play a card; you cannot choose not to play any card. You can only play one card; you cannot choose to play multiple.

💎 You may also spend garnets along with your card. Every garnet you spend increases the number of your card by 1. This can cause the card to have a number greater than 3.

🧠 Along with your submission, you may also use a point token. You may use up to one point token in each round.

At the end of the round, your card is compared with the card submitted by your secret soulmate. The player that submits the higher number (after modifications with garnets) gets 1 point. Neither player gets any point in case of a tie.

In addition, the scoring player gets 1 additional point for each point token submitted by either you or your secret soulmate. If the players are tied, the point tokens are wasted.

📡 The players that receive points are revealed. However, the cards submitted are not revealed, and point tokens are not revealed -- neither who played point tokens, nor who received extra points.

🎭 For example, you play a card with number 2, spending two garnets to increase it to 4. You also use a point token. Your secret soulmate plays a card with number 3, not modified by garnets, and also uses a point token. Then you have a higher number than your secret soulmate and so receive the points. You get a base of 1 point, plus 1 point since you used a point token, plus 1 point since your secret soulmate used a point token, for a total of 3 points. It is also revealed that you got some amount of points, but not how many exactly.

👑 📡 The game ends after 9 rounds, once all cards have been used up. At that time, the secret soulmates are revealed. The player with the least points is the Elimination Candidate. In addition, their partnership (they and their secret soulmate) are ineligible to become the winner.

👑 Among the remaining players that are eligible to win, the players with the most points are the winners and receive one Token of Life each. If there is a single winner, they receive two Tokens of Life instead. The excess may be given to anyone other than the Elimination Candidate. In particular, it may be given to a player that is ineligible to win; being ineligible to win doesn't mean you cannot receive a Token of Life.

💎 At the end of the game, you get garnets equal to your points or your secret soulmate's, whichever is lower. Also, if you are a winner, you get 1 bellflower.

🧬 Some additional rules about winners and losers:

• If there are multiple players with the least points, all of them become losers and their partnerships are ineligible to become the winner.
• Each winner votes for one of the losers to become the Elimination Candidate. One random player with the most votes becomes the Elimination Candidate.
• It is possible that all players are ineligible to become the winner. In that case, there is no winner and so no Token of Life. It also follows that all losers are tied for the most votes at 0 votes each, and so one random loser becomes the Elimination Candidate.

ADMINISTRATION

📌 🀄 Player items

You start the game with nine number cards: three numbered 1, three numbered 2, and three numbered 3.

Number cards are tradable, but only on a one-for-one basis. That is, if a trade involves you giving away an amount of number cards, you must receive the same amount of number cards (although obviously not necessarily with the same numbers).

You also start the game with a number of point tokens that depend on the number of players in your meadow: three if you are in a 1-player meadow, two if you are in a 2-player meadow, and one otherwise.

Point tokens are tradable freely, like garnets and bellflowers. They may be given away, they may be traded for other things, and so on.

📌 ⏰ Timing

Each round lasts for approximately 24 hours, except for the first round that lasts for approximately 48 hours. The deadline of every round is at 3pm UTC ( your local time); allow a few minutes for updating.

📌 🧠 Submission

Your submission consists of:

• Which number card you are submitting.
• An amount of garnets you wish to spend.
• Whether you wish to use a point token.

If your submission is invalid or missing, it will take default values. The defaults are:

• You submit one random number card. You will be told which card you submitted. Other players will not know that it is a random submission.
• You don't spend any garnet.
• You don't use any point token.

📌 📡 Information

This game has the following pieces of information, along with how and when they are revealed to the players, if at all. If a piece of information is not in this list, it is likely not known to anyone, but feel free to clarify.

🔺 Publicly announced, at the end of every round

• Which players gained points.

🔺 Publicly announced, at the end of the MM

• Who each player's secret soulmate is.
• How many points each player has.

--- Therefore, the winner(s) and the loser(s) of the MM, along with players that are ineligible to become the winner.

🔻 Explicitly not known to anyone, until the end of the MM

• Who your secret soulmate is.

🔻 Explicitly only known to you

• What your submission is for each round.
• What cards you are holding and how many point tokens you are holding.

🔻 Explicitly not known to anyone

• How many points you get, if you do get points in a round.

📌 💎 ORG items

You can gain ORG currency in this way:

• At the end of the MM, you get garnets equal to the number of points obtained by you or your secret soulmate, whichever is lower.
• At the end of the MM, you get 1 bellflower if you win.

Note that it is possible to earn more garnets than the winner.

In addition, there is also a minigame in Round 1 of the Main Match, described in #unknown.

You can spend garnets in these ways:

• When submitting your card, you may spend garnets; each garnet spent increases the number of your card by 1.
• You may purchase point tokens, at 1 point token for 2 garnets. Point tokens are used to increase the amount of points received by the scoring player in your partnership.

CLARIFICATIONS

📌 You don't know how many points you get

If you get points, you don't know how many points you get, only that you get at least one point.