Four Square
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| Designer(s): MathTurtle | Match Type: MM (for 8 players) |
| Featured in: Community Hosted Genius Game | |
Main Match 7: Four Square
Each player begins the game with seven numbers in their possession. These numbers are chosen from the set {0, 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7}, and each player will receive a unique set. (This means that each player will be missing a different number.)
The game consists of 9 rounds. Each round, four numbers ranging from 0 to 9 will be posted in each section of the above square. (The individual colored sections are called “squares”, while the image as a whole is the “board”.) Then, there will be a 24 hour period where each player selects a square to go to.
For the pregame period, there will be a pre-Round 1 phase where the first board is posted. Players must then decide which square they want to head to first. After this period, Round 1 begins. For each round, the board for the next round will be posted at the start.
Within your square, you and the other people may negotiate to determine who gets which number. You may only take one number from a square each round. If a decision cannot be reached in a room, all players will receive a 0. If somehow there are more players than numbers, extra 0 number(s) will be added until the number of players is reached.
In addition, you must decide which square to go to next. You may visit any square each round, with the only stipulation being that you cannot return to the square where you resided in the previous round.
Each turn you visit a square, you gain a shard of that color as well. Shards will be explained in a later section.
After 9 rounds, each player has 48 hours to arrange their 16 numbers into four sets of four. They will also be given four squares, as shown below.
This is where shards come into play. In order to use these shards, however, you must combine two shards to create a crystal of that color. Each color crystal has a different effect, which is listed below.
Red crystal: Switch the position of two symbols on one of your expression squares.
Yellow crystal: Change one of the symbols on one of your expression squares to a different symbol.
Green crystal: Decrease one of your numbers by one. (0 loops around to 9.)
Blue crystal: Increase one of your numbers by one. (9 loops around to 0.)
You may spend 2 garnets to purchase a shard of any color.
Once the squares are filled and all desired crystals used, the squares are evaluated. Squares are evaluated in the following manner:
Players score 6 points for a perfect square, 5 points for being within 2 from a perfect square, 4 points for being within 4 from a perfect square, 3 points for being within 6 from a perfect square, 2 points for being within 8 from a perfect square, and 1 point for being within 10 from a perfect square.
The player with the most points at the end will earn two ToLs. If there are multiple players with the highest number of points at the end, they all gain a ToL. The player with the least points will be the EC; if there is a tie, then the winner may choose the EC.
Clarification: Numbers are truncated; furthermore, they are only truncated after all operations have been performed. If an operation results in a decimal, that decimal is carried through the expression until the end, where it is truncated.
Clarification: Decisions within a room will occur in a private channel made for those in that room. Once a decision has been made, just ping me and I'll record it. Who claims what number will be known only to those who were in a room.
Clarification: If someone claims a number in a room but others are fighting over the remaining numbers, the person who claimed the number will get that number instead of 0 if the others agree on giving them that number.
Clarification: For someone to claim a number, a majority of the other people in the room agreeing is required for them to get that number. Majority is considered a percentage greater than 50%.
Clarification: Don't divide by 0. Please.
Amendment: In the case of everyone tying (and receiving a ToL), all ToLs will be nullified and the player(s) with the least sum of their 4 results will become EC; if there's more than one person, others will vote on the EC between the candidates.
Clarification: Crystals or shards may not be traded between players.
Clarification: In the case of all but 2 people receiving ToLs, those two people will go to the Death Match. The EC will be the player with the least sum of their 4 expressions.
Clarification: You may talk to people in other rooms.
Amendment because I am an idiot and not awa: Players will receive a garnet for every 4 points they score this Main Match.