Sign Cook
TBD
| Designer(s): ISamEI | Match Type: MM (for 4 players) |
| Featured in: Genius Invitational | |
In Sign Cook, you will concoct three separate dishes: a starter, a main course and a dessert.
You will go to various locations to acquire numbers and mathematical symbols, the ingredients to whip up the best three-course meal.
R1: Starter
The starter will require a simple variety of food. You will present a series of "equations" that each result in unique, consecutive, numbers. You are not allowed to create equations that solve to non-consec nums or use nums alone.
The tiebreaker will be whoever has the highest number in the series they create.
Ex:
1+1 (equaling 2) 4-1 (equaling 3) 2^2 (equaling 4)
1st... 4 points 2nd... 3 points 3rd... 2 points 4th... 1 point
R2: Main Course
You will make the longest equation that ends in equaling 24.
You will be judged first by closeness to 24 and second by the number of symbols that you have in your equation. If you both have the same number symbols and closeness to 24, you will be judged by who used the largest number in their expression.
(Ex: 22+1+1 would win over 9*3-3, because 22 > 9)
1st... 4 points 2nd... 3 points 3rd.. 2 points 4th... 1 point
R3: Dessert
The dessert will quite literally be a love letter to food.
You will put down a series of expressions or numbers resulting in numbers from 1 to 26.
These numbers will be converted to letters (A = 1, B = 2, C = 3, D = 4... Z = 26).
Spelling the longest word in the scrabble dictionary here https://scrabblewordfinder.org/dictionary-checker will result in the tastiest dessert.
Ex:
3 - (C) 10+5 - (O) 3 x 5 - (O) 2 x 6 - (K)
The tiebreaker will be whoever used the longest expression to create a letter.
1st - 4 points 2nd - 3 points 3rd - 2 points 4th - 1 point
Equations
You can put two or more numbers next to each other to form another number. (ex: If I have a 3 tile and a 5 tile, I can make the number 35 or 53)
You CANNOT use parenthesis. Equations follow pemdas/bidmas rules.
When you use a number/symbol in an equation, you can't use it in future rounds.
Numbers are not rounded and you can use imaginary numbers if you wish.
Gura Ramsey
Gura Ramsey will be your judge in this MM. He is a very particular chef.
If any subexpression evaluates to zero, the recipe is RUINED and Gura Ramsey will aggressively throw out your food (you score in last place).
Gura Ramsey also DESPISES wasting ingredients. If you have any leftover numbers or symbols after dessert, he will take away 2 points from your overall score.
Gura Ramsey would also appreciate it if you used a randomly generated secret ingredient for this challenge. If you use the number 538 in any of your equations, he will award you with 1 additional point (this reward can only be earned once).
Gathering Ingredients
Every player begins the game with a 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9 and a +, -, x, / and ^ sign.
To acquire more ingredients, you can go to various places. Every round, you may go to up to 3 locations before preparing your dish.
Locations
There are 5 locations you can go to and acquire symbols.
Plus Palace - stocking all the addition signs you need!!
Minus Market - A lively place that sells minus signs.
Multiplication Station - A one-stop shop for x symbols.
Division Kitchen - A place that can whip up division signs.
Strange Square - a mysterious location where you can get exponent symbols ( ^ )
All you have to do is to exchange a number tile at one of these locations, and you'll receive the equivalent number of the sign that is offered there. (I give minus market a 9 tile, I receive 9 minuses)
Numbers Mine
You can go to the numbers mine to extract numbers.
If you can find any path of orthogonal numbers that can form an equation that when read left to right inserting +, -, x, or / symbols (no order of ops) you can mine that entire number block.
For example, from B8 (2), A8 (1), and A7 (3) are in an orthogonal sequence. I can say that 2+1=3, and successfully mine those 3 numbers for use.
You can mine once per visit, and once you mine a group of numbers you may not mine any numbers in that group again.
I will announce the length of the longest number sequence mined in a round. You can mine at most 7 tiles in a single visit. The mine is as below:
You may not write a computer program to do the mining for you.
Winning the Game
The player who has the most points after dessert is presented is told by Gura Ramsey "finally, some good food" and receives a TOL and 3 garnets.
If there is a tie for first, the player who earned most points during the dessert round wins match. If there is a still a tie, we look at the highest placer in the main course, and then in the starter.
The player who has the least points after dessert is presented is called a donut by Gura Ramsey and is EC.
Once during this MM you may spend 3 garnets to acquire any tile you wish.
Clarification: Other players will be able to see the equations you've presented
Examples Added examples to the rules
Rule Changes You will not be allowed to mine the same numbers multiple times 😦
Removed the least letter tiebreaker from dessert.
Tiebreaker clarifications
Tiebreakers operate the same way as breaking ties for poker hands. (If still tied, compare second most, then third most, etc.)
Starter:
You can't use just nums for the starter, but you can do that for the dessert.
Rule Change No computer programs may be created for this mm 
unless all 4 players agree
Clarifying Mining
You can insert symbols wherever but the last symbol must be an equals sign (and only one can exist)
Clarification on Zeroes If any subexpression evaluates to zero, you will score in last place for that category. : (
Clarification on recipes: You don't need to put numbers on both sides of the equals sign
Mining
You can use zeroes in subexpressions when mining.
0
Your final equation can evaluate to 0.
Visiting
You can visit the same loc multiple times. You can only exchange 1 tile/mine up to 7 once per visit.