Misinformation: Pub Variation
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| Misinformation: Pub Variation | |
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| Designer: | Chris Hemmens |
| Players: | 7 upwards |
| Stuff required: | Pens and Paper |
| Crew required: | One. |
| Preparation: | One day |
| Time required: | 15 minutes - 1 hour, plus ten minutes for scoring. |
| Place required: | Place of social gathering e.g. park |
| Activities: | Bluffing |
| This is a tested game. It's been tested in real life, but needs a bit more polishing before it's fully playable. | |
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Welcome to the impossible quiz. Don't worry though, someone knows the answer and they're willing to share it with you. The question is: can you separate the truth from the misinformation?
Remark: The Sandpit Variation is the full version of this game requiring teamwork, organisation, and being able to keep track of lots of different trains of thought all at once. If you've got a day to spare, why not give it a try?
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Preparation
One person needs to be the quizmaster and the number of players needs to be settled on before the game actually starts. The quizmaster must construct a number of questions equal to that of the number of players (I recommend having a couple of extra questions in case extra players decide to join) and these questions should ideally by impossible for any of the players to realistically know the answer to. He must also marry each question to three possible answers: the correct answer, a wrong answer, and a very wrong answer.
Next, each player receives a card with one correct answer, one wrong answer and one very wrong answer, all to different questions. So imagine there are 8 players, then an acceptable allocation of answers would be:
| Player | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Correct answer to question | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 |
| Wrong answer to question | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 |
| Very wrong answer to question | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 1 | 2 | 3 |
You can see that in this allocation, no two players ever conflict on more than one question. This is ideal for the game although the minimum number of players required to avoid double conflicts is seven. Once this allocation has been made, the order of the questions should be randomised.
Playing
In each round, the quizmaster reads the next question as they would in a real quiz and waits until every player has written down their answer. For each question, three of the players have prior information and only they know if the information they have is correct, wrong, or very wrong. These players must convince as many of the other players that their information is correct and they get points every time someone believes them. The number of points they get depends on how wrong their piece of information is.
Points
Players get 5 points for every correct answer.
If anyone (including themselves) writes down a player’s correct information as their answer, that player receives 2 points.
If anyone (including themselves) writes down a player’s wrong information as their answer, that player receives 5 points.
If anyone (including themselves) writes down a player’s very wrong information as their answer, that player receives 10 points.
Remark: Unless players do something really stupid, it should be impossible to score fewer than 22 points.
At the end of the game, the scores are tallied and the player with the highest score, wins.
Example Questions
The quizmaster has a huge penchant for what kind of cheese?
Correct: Edam
Wrong: Gruyere
Very Wrong: Stinking Bishop
What's the combined age of the UK band The Wurzels as of 30th July 2010?
Correct: 255
Wrong: 230
Very Wrong: 191