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If you enjoyed this, you might like Mind Chess, which can be played without a board and pieces [1]: Consider Mind Chess. Two players face each other. One says
by hackyhacky 6mo ago
If you enjoyed this, you might like Mind Chess, which can be played without a board and pieces [1]:
Consider Mind Chess. Two players face each other. One says "Check." The other says "Check." The first says "Check." This continues until one of them says, instead, "Checkmate." That player wins -- superficially. In fact, the challenge is to put off checkmate for as long as possible, while still winning. This may be better stated: you truly win Mind Chess if you call "Checkmate" just before your opponent was about to.
[1] http://www.eblong.com/zarf/essays/mindgame.html http://www.eblong.com/zarf/essays/mindgame.html
- anyfoo 6mo agoWhich reminds me that I just lost the game. I also lost the game not too long ago, but before that, I think I didn't actually lose it for a decade of more? And losing it wasn't even because it was mentioned anywhere, I genuinely just thought of it by myself, after forgetting about it for so long. So my sincerest apologies if my comment just made any readers lose their long streak in the game.
- mckirk 6mo agoDamnit, I am pretty sure I had a few-year-streak going until just now. Welp, off to the grind again, I suppose.
- lamasery 6mo agoI've lost it a lot lately, for some reason, after what I suppose was my third multi-year victory streak. Like, five or so losses this year.
- djsavvy 6mo agoSame here, oddly enough, and every time besides this one was without anyone else mentioning it.
- anyfoo 6mo agoI think once you lost the game once, it's much easier to lose it again relatively shortly after. It takes some long term distraction (and nobody mentioning it) to forget about it again.
- jaeh 6mo agodamn. multiyear streak ruined. i even managed to forget i was playing. i just lost the game.
- shmeeed 6mo agoNah, I won't be fooled again. I won a long time ago and never looked back. https://xkcd.com/391 https://xkcd.com/391
- edanm 6mo agoYep, just lost after I think >5 years. But not because of your comment, because of GP comment.
- olelele 6mo agoWow maybe 10+years running here since i lost last..
- ponkpanda 6mo agoDamn!
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- stavros 6mo agoWait, how is the "put off checkmate" objective scored? Turns before checkmate? Or what? Is it just a joke?
- tylervigen 6mo agoI have never played it, but I could imagine a scoring mechanism that would make it interesting, and perhaps is implied by the rules: The score value starts at 1. Every additional "check" multiplies the score value by 2 (so 2, 4, 8, 16...). The first player to say "checkmate" receives the score. Track your summed score between games; the player with the highest overall score at any given time is "winning."
- zadikian 6mo agoIt only works if there are more than two players
- zeroonetwothree 6mo agoIsn't the optimal strategy just to say "checkmate" immediately? That dominates anything else.
- hackyhacky 6mo agoThat would be the equivalent of spawn camping. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping_(video_games) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Camping_(video_games)
- bee_rider 6mo agoI think to have any chance of making this work, you’d need to have a community of players in a tournament. Everybody gets to issue some number of challenges, and the winner is the person who accumulates the most points over the course of the tournament. I think you should only get points based on the length of games you win. Then the game at least has a chance to develop some mechanics. Players who delayed longer have a chance at winning more points. They also might be challenged more…
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- traderj0e 6mo agoSpeaking of games without pieces, it's hard to develop one for only 2 players, but I've tried: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110448 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43110448 (yes that is my alt account, sorry but I forgot my password)
- CGMthrowaway 6mo agoSounds like a dating game. "Delay texting her back or expressing your feelings as long as possible, until just the moment before she will give up on you"
- benleejamin 6mo agoAnd if you like Mind Chess, you might enjoy Mornington Crescent, which has a similar flavor to it! [1] [1] https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziCsPmlbZI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lziCsPmlbZI
- Mordisquitos 6mo agoAbsolutely! Visualising a long string of opponents saying 'Check' to each other until one calls the checkmate reminded me of when you and your opponent both take the classic dub-Victoria understrategy and repeatedly 'Parsons Green' each other. Such memories!
- rbits 6mo agoReminds me of The Button[1] [1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Button_(Reddit)
- wat10000 6mo agoThis sounds like an inferior, diminished version of Mornington Crescent.
- adam_patarino 6mo agoI did not enjoy this
- oever 6mo agoWorking at the Mind Chess Café is an interesting job.
- asdofindia 5mo agoThere's a fantastic game like Mind Chess and Rock-Paper-Scissors called "Hand Cricket". It is like cricket, but played by showing a number with the fingers of your hand. (Showing just a thumb is 6, folding all fingers is 0, and 1-5 is 1-5 fingers as usual). Both players play a number simultaneously. If the numbers are the same, the batting player gets out. Otherwise, whatever number the batter showed gets added to their score. The innings continues till the batter gets out. And then the roles reverse, the other person becomes batter. After both innings, the person with higher score wins. It's spooky because you have 7 different choices for each ball but people still get out rather quickly.
- JasperBlank2001 5mo agoIf you want it, i made a digitally playable Mind Chess, so you're less dependent on the honor system https://jasperblank.com/mind-chess/ https://jasperblank.com/mind-chess/