On Sun, 2025-03-30 at 19:46 -0400, Mischief via agora-discussion wrote: > 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.
It occurs to me that it would be significantly simpler (and therefore easier to draft, with fewer likely bugs) for the Collar to just allocate boards privately to everyone else and not play emself, in a sort of "GM" role. It's customary in Agora for us to carefully write game mechanics so that the tracking officers can play in full too, and I wonder if we make life unnecessarily hard for ourselves by doing so. I wouldn't be surprised if there were someone who'd be willing to take it up; it doesn't sound like a whole lot of effort after the initial setup. (Heck, I'd consider it myself.) (The most obvious downside is that the game would have to reset if the officeholder changed, but officer turnover has been quite low recently.) ~qenya
