As some may or may not know, I've been screwing around with alternative games we might play, trying to find ones that seem like they'd work for our forum. Anyway, this is the first attempt, borrowed from Mafiascum's The Whole Sort of General Mish Mash Forum, its a quickie, game rounds for this trial will go for 48 hours each, and the number of rounds should be one less than the number of players who sign on, very small time commitment. This seemed an appropriate choice for a first attempt since it's very easy and requires little involvement thus won't step on any other games going on currently.

Rules

You start off with 1000 coins

Every round you NB me how many you want to spend

If you submit the lowest, you're out

If you submit the second lowest, you get all coins you spent back that round

If you fail to submit coins, you will receive a strike and a random submission. If you fail to submit again, you will be eliminated.

If a tie occurs for lowest, both are eliminated, if tied for second, both get refunded, otherwise ties don't matter

Last man standing wins!

So here's how this will work, for the trial, we'll do registration for a couple days. Then Play begins, everyone NBs me their value, and when everyone submits or 48 hours pass, the round ends, and I post what everyone bid, what their new totals are, and who got eliminated. Those who don't submit will automatically bid a random number 1-1000, or 1 to their remaining total on subsequent days. I'll probably use invisible castle for generating that value if someone skips.

Example of play - John, Bob, Larry, Susan, Jessie

Round 1
Players have 1000 coins, and NB their bid.
John - 17
Bob - 154
Larry - 209
Susan - 101
Jessie - 235

John bid lowest, and is eliminated. Susan bid second lowest and gets to keep her coins

John
Bob - 846
Larry - 791
Susan - 1000
Jessie - 765

Round 2 starts, players send in bids
Bob - 300
Larry - 201
Susan - 99
Jessie - 205

This time, Susan risked too low a bid, and gets eliminated, and Larry comes in second, and keeps his cash

Round 2 tallies
John
Bob - 546
Larry - 791
Susan
Jessie - 560

Round 3
Going into this one, Larry knows he can get away with spending more than Bob or Jessie, so he wagers pretty high
Bob - 335
Larry - 400
Jessie - 364

So Bob is out

Bob
Larry - 291
Jessie - 560

On Round 4, Jessie knows she can bid any number higher than 291 and win, so the game ends, Jessie is the winner.

Basic strategy then is if you spend to little your out, but you want to spend as little as possible so you have it to bid on later days and if you hit second place you gain the advantage of keeping your money. Not a deep strategy or heavy posting game, but it goes quick, and might work well as a companion to our other games, since you could probably knock out a 5-7 players game during registration phase for a mafia game or a night phase, etc. Very little posting involved, pretty straightforward, minimal time commitment for all involved.

Okay, who wants to give this a try?