[spoon-discuss] Eleusis

[Daniel Lepage <dpl33@xxxxxxxxxxx>]

I came across an interesting Nomic variant based on the card game 
Eleusis. The general gist of the game was that one player, the GOD, 
created a secret rule governing what sorts of proposals are allowable. 
During each player's turn, e makes a proposal; if it is consistent with 
the secret rule, it is adopted; otherwise it fails. The objective is to 
be the player who figures out what the secret rule is; at the end of 
the round, points are given out based on a variety of factors, 
including who made the most correct proposals, who finally ran out of 
points, etc.

The original game collapsed because it became too difficult to get 
proposals passed; the records are in Joel's deadgames archive at 
http://www.nomic.net/deadgames/eleusis/eleusis.html

Would anybody be interested in a subgame run along a similar theme?

--
Wonko

"This gubblick contains many nonsklarkish English flutzpahs, but the 
overall pluggandisp can be glorked [sic] from context" (David Moser, 
quoted by Douglas Hofstadter in his "Metamagical Themas" column in the 
January 1981 "Scientific American")

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