So, total points per all players = state, and state is on a mod 25 loop?

And the things kitoba did that scored points in other states didn't do diddly in this one...

I think you miscounted, there.

...or was that a clever ploy?



no, not really...

Puzzling, indeed.

All in all, this is a fairly baffling game. Though the chances of deciphering the rules of this game seem shockingly remote, I can just about assume the knowledge that continually meandering on and on about - well, about any arbitrary topic, really - should quite satisfactorially improve my odds of gaining any points at all - since it does not seem like I could earn any negative points. Were I of a mind to do so, in fact, I believe I could exactly replicate any number of points by simply quoting and re-quoting the first page an arbitrary number of times.

However, I do have a theory, and in terms of that theory, this post should score enough to put me ahead of any other player currently in the game...

CCC: a winner is you. For everyone else - he scored a lot and left the game state exactly where it was before his post. Can anyone else figure out what the rule was?

If I understand the scoring correctly, then this post won't score, but I think you may have made an error back in this post - I count it as scoring six, not four.

With, naturally, knock-on effects from there on out.

Yup. Missed those two.

Dodger77, did I screw you up with that? You did say immediately after that it didn't pan out. It'd be a shame if you would have won on page 1 but I messed up and threw you off.

Sort of? I don't really know to do with this game. Based on what I suspected back then, I could see why CCC scored a few points, but as he apparently scored quite a lot of points, it seems that my old theory about this game wasn't very good in the first place. And I am still not sure what effects state has on the game besides what has already been stated. (Hah!)

There appear to have been a couple of, well, mis-counted posts. And since each point of score changed state, this had knock-on effects on later posts. It's still possible to figure out the rule, bearing in mind that Drachefly is fallible; but to make it more straightfoward, these are the points as I understand them:

Drachefly's first post, as advertised, 10
No more points until Steave's post, which scored 6.
Nothing more again until Drachefly made a post that would have been worth 6 points.
Dodger promptly scored a single point.
Drachefly (who wasn't in the state he thought he was in and wouldn't have scored the points he claimed even if he was) put up a zero-point post.
No more points were won until Steave claimed another two points.
Dodger scored one point by quoting Drachefly (which was enough to return the game to the initial state) and a further seven points in the rest of his post.
Drachefly's next post would have been worth two points.
Dodger's next quote is worth only a single point, with no more points outside the quote.
The next points are scored by Kitoba, whose post obtains a full five points.
Parannoyed scores one point (not that points were particularly hard to score in that state - though he didn't leave it in the easiest state).
Drachefly's next post would have scored nine, meaning that the next point earned would advance the game back to the starting state again.
And then my post advanced the game the exact number of points required to progress through one entire cycle and leave the game state precisely where it had been before my post.

This post, by my count, advances the score ten points and leaves it in a (hopefully) easier state for other people to score in.

Hmm.... Apparently, when I scored points (the same number of points I thought I was going to score) it was for a completely different reason than the reason I thought it was.

I've got no actual idea what's going on. But kudos to CCC, our resident mathematician supreme, for seemingly figuring it out!

I feel he should get bonus points for correcting the gamemaster! Or should those be demerits instead...?

It appears that no one is trying any more, so I'll give the rule if you like?

I still don't get it.

Let me show you where Drachefly scored points in his first post:

Oh crap! LOL, I was going off an entirely different rule





Well, great game drache, and a well-deserved congrats to CCC for winning it. Maybe I'll bring the kitoba game back out, now that both the drache game and the Steave game have clear winners....

Yeah, so my way off theories were as follows: 1 point per complete sentece; 1 point for punctuation marks (like kitoba); 1 point for the phrase "this game." I kind of feel bad that the game is over so soon. I'd like to think I would have figured it out eventually but the temptation to read drache's spoilers were too great.

The state was the biggest hint. I tried my own count but kept coming up with kitoba's 25. Odd. If I had figured out where I was going wrong with the state count I might have had a shot.