On 3/30/25 3:26 PM, Edward Murphy via agora-discussion wrote:
Presumably this would be something like:
* player makes a commitment to a document containing some ordered lists
of code values
* Collar makes a commitment to a document mapping those code values to
actual values
* Collar reveals eir commitment before flipping the bingo state to
unpaused for the first time in a bingo round
I sketched out one potential mechanism here:
https://www.mail-archive.com/[email protected]/msg57284.html
My goals were to 1) allow players to commit to a board while keeping it
secret; and 2) allow players to join the game midway, but without being able
to engineer a particular choice of a board (at a given time some
combinations could be obviously more favorable than others). If a player
wants to simplify things e can just announce eir secret numbers -- the
identity function is a valid way to create a fingerprint -- at the expense
of secrecy.
If eir selected event sample is:
A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X
45 47 83 8 77 69 23 22 20 53 41 19 55 89 87 35 86 26 7 39 43 60 79 1
and eir selected event arrangement is:
JBPTM QOSAF GC.UW EHKDL XVNIR
the board populates left to right, top to bottom and eir final board is...
53 47 35 39 55
86 87 7 45 69
23 83 -- 43 79
77 22 41 8 19
1 60 89 20 26
The regulations tell you what conditions each of those numbers corresponds
to. The two-step process allows for a large number of possible boards
expressed in a reasonably compact set of regulations (e.g., 100 samples and
100 arrangements versus 10,000 explicitly specified boards).
I imagine someone could whip up a quick app to fill out the board
automatically (given the public and secret numbers) based on the definitions
in the regulations.
When a player successfully calls bingo, e wins the game, the bingo state
is flipped to paused, and all existing bingo board selections are null and
void.
Is it intentional that only one player can win each bingo round, even if
another player could have also called bingo at that time?
Pretty much. Boards are generally secret. Also, it creates an opportunity
for a player to act to trigger multiple conditions at once, then claim eir win.
--
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