On 3/30/25 9:01 PM, Katherina Walshe-Grey via agora-discussion wrote:
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
(Replying off-list to an old email)
Are you still potentially interested in running Bingo? I'm planning on
downsizing my Agoran presence soon due to some upcoming personal
commitments. I'm hoping to get Bingo over the finish line before then.
I have a list of dozens of event ideas I've already brainstormed that I'm
more than happy to share
--
Mischief
Collector, Illuminator, Notary, Prime Minister
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