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New Game Idea: Bankruptcy

Aug 11, 2017 by blandin12
TENGAGED GROUP GAME IDEA:
A game where a group of players, anywhere between 8-20, all begin with a set amount of money. This could either be $10, $15, $20 or $25. The advantage of playing with more money will become obvious as I explain.

In every cycle, one person is eliminated. This happens by becoming bankrupt (no longer having any money, aka, $0. During each cycle, the players will compete against each other is small, short competitions. The winner of each competition can chose to steal $5 from another player. For example: “Jonathen answers the question correctly, and can steal $5 from any player of his choice. He currently has $15. Jonathen decides to steal from Anna, who currently has $15. Jonathen now has $20. Anna now has $10.” Make sense? This minor competitions will continue until one person in the round has become BANKRUPT. This means they have lost the game. The cycle will then end and the next cycle of the game will begin the following day/ within the following days.

During every cycle, there will be a maximum of 20 minor competitions. If no one has become bankrupt by then, the poorest person is eliminated, and they must donate their remaining money to one player of their choosing.

At the end of each cycle, the richest player and the poorest REMAINING player have immunity for the following week. During this week, the richest player must donate $10 to the poorest player. So when the two players are no longer immune, the richest player will be $10 poorer and the poorest player will be $10 richer.

Throughout the game, no money is technically being lost. It is only being stolen/ transferred between players. As time goes on and more cycles pass, this means people, on average, gradually gain more money as players become bankrupt. This is when the amount a player steals increases. For example, if half the players have become bankrupt, and all the remaining players, on average, have $30 each, only being able to steal $5 at a time would become tedious. This is why the amount a player steals would increase; to keep the pace of the game going.

When it comes to the finale, there will only be 2 people who now control all the money. Depending on their gameplay and strategy, they may both have similar amounts of cash, or it could be split between them unequally. During the finale, the final 2 players have 3 options. To either SPLIT, STEAL, or COMPETE.
If both players split, they each win the money the currently have as a single player.
If one picks split and the other steal, the player that chose to steal takes all the money earned by both players.
If they both pick steal, both their cash prizes are halved, meaning they only win the game with half of what they had achieved. The other half of the money is distributed between the recently bankrupted players, with 3rd place receiving the highest % of the money, and so on.
But if only one player picks compete, they both enter a competition face-off. The winner takes 75% of the money. The loser goes home 2nd place and empty handed. The other 25%, similar to the steal-steal situation, is distributed among the recently bankrupted players.

So in theory, if there are like 16 players, each with roughly $15 to begin with, someone could win with a lot of money in their pocket! The only issue is, for this to actually work, it means players would have to transfer their starting money to my bank account and trust me to hold the money and trust me to award the money fairly and correctly. I don’t know how comfortable I feel with that idea… for someone could easily accuse me of stealing (even though I wouldn’t) and also, it only takes one angry loser who went bankrupt to start a row with me and accuse me of stealing their money and I don’t want that. Is there any solution to this? But on the other hand, I think this could be such a great game on tengaged! Where people could win actual money, without actually paying that much to play (like $10 isn’t much). And tbh, the starting prices to play could be anything.

But I don’t actually know if I’d be doing anything illegal by doing this. Please let me know your thoughts on whether this is a good or completely stupid idea. Thankyou.

Comments

I would play.
Sent by Thirteen,Aug 11, 2017
You could make it a group game I guess? It seems fun!
Sent by dutchone29,Aug 11, 2017

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