Nothing But the Truth

TBD

Designer(s): awesome Match Type: DM (for 2 players)
Featured in: Chopped: An April Fool's Design Competition

Use your trivia knowledge to earn coins, then use those coins to place stones and shift the gravity of the board.


Preparation and Definitions

  • The host must prepare 52 Objective True or False Statements in advance.
  • The board is 6x6, and players will be assigned a stone color.
  • “Submit” means a private submission to the host.
  • “Reveal” and “Public” means shown to both players.
  • A “group” of stones is a cluster of stones fully connected by their edges (not diagonals).


Each cycle of the game goes as follows:


1) The Host will reveal 4 Objective Statements. Players will then submit an ordering of these Statements based on how likely they think each is true.


Players will then receive coins equal to the binary number created when True statements are interpreted as 1 and False as 0. Coin counts will be public.


Ex.

A=”If x+y=z, then 2x+2y=2z” (True)

B=”Chopped has 50+ seasons” (True)

C=”All liquids are safe to consume for humans” (False)

D=”The Chopped logo contains a fork” (False)

Player 1 order: ABDC = 1100 = 12 coins

Player 2 order: ADBC = 1010 = 10 coins


2) Players may then purchase and place stones by submitting a list of empty spaces, though they must have enough coins to afford them. Stones cost 8 coins, minus 1 for every group of stones the player currently has on the board. Stone cost cannot drop below 4 coins.



Any spaces submitted by both players will remain empty, and coins will not be deducted for them. The board will then be revealed.


3) Players may then submit a bid for a gravity shift. Whoever submits a higher bid will be charged that amount of coins, then may make a shift. If the bid is tied, nobody is charged and nobody gets to shift.


A shift consists of picking a direction and optionally an anchor stone. Stones will then move in the specified direction as much as possible, until they hit a wall or another stone. The anchor will not move, and simply acts as a wall. Players may select their own or their opponent’s stone as an anchor. Players may also win the bid and decide not to shift.



Winning

The game ends when the Statements run out or the board is full. The winner is the player with the single largest group of stones. If tied, next largest groups are compared and so on. If still tied, trivia questions of any format are asked until a player gets one right that the other gets wrong.


Hosting note: The set of statements should be roughly 50/50 true and false, and should be set up so no group of 4 for a round is all true or all false.

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