Mutineer's Werewolf

[Askthepizzaguy]

I miss Chessgeek and smuchmuch.

Where have so many awesome peeps gone?

[Duck999]

I miss Chessgeek and smuchmuch.

Where have so many awesome peeps gone?

PM them, maybe you can get an answer.
Chances are, real life happened, as it often does, sad as it may be.

Don't you just hate it when life goes and messes up your plans?

[Askthepizzaguy]

Chessgeek in particular.

Sigh... rare is the villager that will go along with your crazy ideas that involve lying as villager, and then put up with you when you suddenly and inexplicably suspect them all game long.

That's a villager I want to play with. I get to be creative.

[Visor]

I just want to play a game! Cmon lets roll.

[Askthepizzaguy]

I just want to play a game! Cmon lets roll.

Okay, let's play a game.

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01 Ramsus
02 Duck999
03 Lex-Kat
04 Logic
05 BasketOfPuppies
06 Zack
07 Visor
08 bladescape
09 Count Dingdong
10 Cuthalion
11 firedaemon33
12 Tanar Aerdoth
13 Fawkes
14 sphazre
15 Askthepizzaguy
16 Zar Peter
17 Mrs. McGinty
18 Sprig
19 Elemental
20 Xhosant
21 Emperor DemonKing
22 Fleeing Coward
23 Tom the Mime

Contained within this list are five bombs.

Each turn, you can guess a name, two names, three names, four names, or five names.

Anywhere from one to five names.

The result you get is how many of those guessed names are bombs, but not which ones were bombs.

Your objective is to name all five bombs correctly in the fewest number of turns.

Anyone want to take a stab at this? Don't put your guesses in this thread, PM me.

Each person will have the same list, but the answers will be randomly generated and different for each person.

Just to reiterate, don't hijack Pengi's game thread. PM only.

Hunt hunt hunt, o Visor who slashes people.

Consider this a test run for a mini-game in my theoretical upcoming Zelda game.

[Fleeing Coward]

Worst case scenario, naming all 5 on 17th turn is best I can come up with in theory. Too lazy to tempt luck to see how many turns I actually take

[Askthepizzaguy]

Worst case scenario, naming all 5 on 17th turn is best I can come up with in theory. Too lazy to tempt luck to see how many turns I actually take

Ah, but you had a fun few minutes trying to solve the worst case scenario, didn't ya?

Admit it, you enjoy thinking.

[Fleeing Coward]

Ah, but you had a fun few minutes trying to solve the worst case scenario, didn't ya?

Admit it, you enjoy thinking.

Lies, life would be so much simpler if I had to think less.

After all ignorance is bliss

[Askthepizzaguy]

Here you are, playing a game of thinking.

You're even thinking in your free time, while waiting for a different game of thinking to start.

You can't hide your geek from me, FC.

[Fleeing Coward]

I guess but I'm also playing a mindless hack and slash on my second screen at the same time. So that clearly means I don't like to think.

[Askthepizzaguy]

So thinking's not enough, you have to multitask too.

[Tris]

I think I can grantee a maximum of 16 guesses, but I might be thinking wrong.

[Ionbound]

Really? I get a maximum of 5 guesses.

[Tris]

Err, turns.

[Lex-Kat]

If he survives night one, I'm likely mafia since I'd put the kibosh on such an act.

Well, not likely mafia. Just not ruled out.

Never ruled out. I'm fairly certain I will vote for AskthePizzaGuy, well, now.

[Askthepizzaguy]

You can technically win the game in one guess, it's not very likely.

Maximum guesses, depends on how poor your aim is, and how many names you guess per round. You could guess each name once, and have them all be wrong until the last five names. So that's the maximum.

[Count Dingdong]

If you give up on winning the game on the first turn, you can have a worst-case of 16 turns. If you want that hope of winning on the first turn, it adds one more to the worst-case. Best-case will generally be 1 turn, but if you use the 16-turn strategy, you change best-case to 2 turns (still pretty unlikely, though...).

[Askthepizzaguy]

There are strategies one can use to potentially take slightly risky but reasonable shortcuts.

If you have one name in four, odds are pretty okay you could use a turn to guess the one name, rather than use potentially three more guesses.

Then you could try to guess the one name in three if you were wrong, and still save a turn.

Luck may not always be on one's side, but such strategies can enable one to blitzkrieg more reasonably than "guess all five on turn 1".

[Fleeing Coward]

I still don't see 16 turns unless you're not counting the extra turn to name all 5.

[Tris]

I have a 16 turn max strategy that could win on the first turn. Although, Pizza just told me that "If you've found a name by process of elimination, you would still have to use a turn to name that bomb." So, the max is actually 17.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Yeah, since the game is to name all five bombs, simply narrowing it down isn't enough, you have to use a turn to name them.

But, it's possible to avoid using a turn to simply name one name you've found by elimination, assuming it isn't your final turn.

Should also note, if at any point you name one correct bomb out of one guess, or two out of two, or three out of three, or four out of four, you don't have to name those again.

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Scoreboard:

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Duck999 correctly guessed all five bombs in 12 turns.
Fleeing Coward correctly guessed all five bombs in 12 turns.
Lex-Kat correctly guessed all five bombs in 13 turns.
sphazre correctly guessed all five bombs in 13 turns.
Tanar Aerdoth correctly guessed all five bombs in 15 turns.
Count Dingdong correctly guessed all five bombs in 16 turns.

I'll edit future finishers into this post.

[Askthepizzaguy]

Since those of you participating in the waiting-for-this-game-to-start "bomb game" are doing it in real time, you should know that I'm back online and you can send me many consecutive turns again. I took a nap. On tuesday I begin my long work week so I'll probably only be able to do a turn per day after that unless you happen to be online same time as me. Also if you have yahoo messenger or skype its way faster than PM.

Edit: Congrats on a 12 turn finish, Duck999 and Fleeing Coward!

Edit: And I'm logging off for a while. Feel free to send me more turns / players.

[Lex-Kat]

Damn Ducks fowl. Beating my score by one, and before, and now after, I could get my score.

[Fleeing Coward]

So close, had a 25% chance of outright first but Random.org failed me

[Visor]

@penguinator

[banjo1985]

*sidles in*

So I see that sign ups are kind of closed, but I'm in iffa you'll take me Cap'n?

Also, where the heck did my avatar go?

[Askthepizzaguy]

Hermergherd, Banjo's back!

[bladescape]

*sidles in*

So I see that sign ups are kind of closed, but I'm in iffa you'll take me Cap'n?

Also, where the heck did my avatar go?

BANJO

I know! My avatar went too.

[banjo1985]

*waves to both*

Longtime no see, Bladescape.

Back is such a strong word. More like I'm just about over my embarrassment from ducking out of running one game and co-hosting another and felt it about time I came back looking shame-faced and contrite.

Oh, and I guess my character will be Bigger Than Medium Dave But Not As Big As Big Dave Dave, the second tallest of the Dave brothers.

[Duck999]

*sidles in*

So I see that sign ups are kind of closed, but I'm in iffa you'll take me Cap'n?

Also, where the heck did my avatar go?

...Nice avatar.

You know what would do nicely with that? A cat WW game. I wonder if there have ever been any of those in the playground? Maybe one that would be very fun were it to happen again...

And if we got a player base back.

Hello! Nice to see you again.