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"Game Atlas: The Archeology of a World not Far-away” aims to communicate ways of using games as a playful media to combine historical story-telling, representation of cultural heritage, community experiences with playful mechanics and virtual world-building. Game designers from Asia and Europe are invited to exchange perspectives and methodologies and explore the power of games in producing contextualised contents for local and global game players.”

Blog Post 2: Game Lab I

Group: Natalie, Patrick, Rajiv, Zoee, and Richard

Game Name: I Doubt

Rules:

Using a deck of 52 cards, the players can play 1-4 cards onto a stack. When they play, they need to claim the number of cards that are played, the value of the card (ex: ace-king). The value has to be one above, one below, or the same as the value given from the previous card.

Any player can call “cheat” or “BS” as the player plays, and when they do, the cards they played are revealed. If it turns out what they claimed was a lie, the cheater takes the entire stack back into their hand.

However, if the cards turn out to be the truth, the player who called “cheat” would have to take the stack. The way to win is when one of the players has no cards left, leaving 3 players remaining.

--Let the game begin!--

Player 1 (P1): Richard

Player 2 (P2): Zoe (it shows Player 4 for her on the image, but she was labelled Player 2 when we started playing)

Player 3 (P3): Patrick

Player 4 (P4): Natalie

Player 5 (P5): Rajiv

ROUND 1: We were pretty confused about the rules of the game in the beginning as we were reading through the rules. We didn't realize that we needed to claim type of card that needs to be played (spade, heart, etc.). We also didn't realize our cards needed to be 1 above or below the previous card.

P1: claimed a king of spades

P2: claimed a 2 of spades

P3: claimed a 8 of hearts

P4: Puts down 2 10s

P5: claimed a 5

ROUND 2: We ended up getting a little confused on whether we should be placing the number of cards we should be putting down or the number itself. (2 cards vs 2 of hearts). It turns out we need to place down number of the card rather than the number of cards. We weren't sure on how many cards we should place down, but we've placed down however many we want to get rid of.

P1: claims 6 of spades, they doubt

P2: claims 2 7 of spades

P3: claims 2 8 of hearts

P4: claims a club of 9 and a spade of 9

P5: claims a club of 10

ROUND 3: At this point, we started to kind of understand the game, knowing that we need to be 1 above the previous card. So more people are starting to call BS on each other.

P1: claims a Jack of hearts, P3 called BS, turns out to be a King of Diamonds, P1 takes the stack

P2: claims Queen of Diamonds

P3: claims King of spades, P2 called BS and lost, P2 takes the stack

P4: claims 1 club Ace

P5: claims 2 of hearts

ROUND 4: There was less calling BS here, which could be likely because the other players were scared of making the wrong call.

P1: 3 of spades

P2: 4 of spades

P3: 5 of spades and 5 of diamonds

P4: 6 of hearts

P5: 7 of diamonds

ROUND 5: As this new round tenses up, the players are still scared to take action. However, P4 realizes that the more the players play their cards, the less options that they have to play their true cards, making it more likely for them to lie. So, they took initiative to call BS when they realized that they have the card P2 has. However, P2 and P5 ended up mixing up the order of the numbers, but we let that go.

P1: 8 of hearts

P2: 2 of diamonds, P4 called BS, P2 lost and takes the stack

P3: 9 of diamonds

P4: 10 of spade and 10 of heart

P5: Queen of spades and Queen of heart

ROUND 6: Since P4 took initiative to call BS more, more of the other players started calling BS on each other.

P1: King of diamonds

P2: Ace of diamonds

P3: 2 of spades

P4: 3 of club

P5: 4 of club, P3 Patrick doubts, loses and takes the stack

ROUND 6: The room is getting more tense, with players calling BS on each other, but they keep losing. Since the players here didn't play I Doubt before, they likely don't realize that the types of cards are actually beginning to decrease as they play.

P1: 5 of club

P2: 6 of hearts, 6 of spades, and 6 of diamonds

P3: 7 of hearts

P4: 8 of diamond

P5: 9 of clubs, P1 called BS, loses and takes the stack

ROUND 7: P4 is actually running out of cards at this moment, but decides to stay silent about it since the other players aren't really paying attention at how many cards she has.

P1: 10 of clubs

P2: Jack of Clubs

P3: Queen of hearts and spades, P2 calls BS and loses, takes stack

P4: King of Hearts, runs out of cards, and as soon as P5 places their card, she claims to run out, knowing no one called BS on her

P4 wins the game!

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