Topic: Super Safe Words 4: Mario's Gamble - Congrats to NuclearSpeed!

[Triforce Hermit]

Stars are for casuals to make not winners feel like sorta winners.

Congrats Nuclear!

[Khushrenada]

Khushrenada could make a whole game of Safe Words with just him and his alts.

That's cause I'm one hundred of a kind.

[NuclearSpeed]

Wow, good game to all. That final four was crazy, I was impressed with the missing of the bomb word and making the one that chose it use the safety net.

I think I'll have to reward my little oracle for her help in picking the right words.

[ShyGuy]

It's over. I lost. The Plumbers have toppled our rightful ruler once again. Here is the Mario stealing my shoe. The Horror, the horror...

[Khushrenada]

[Mop it up]

Now that the game's done with, would anyone like to offer some constructive feedback? I know that this game went on a little longer than the previous ones, but did that truly bother anyone? There were two main reasons that happened, which were that I forgot to send out a mass PM to let people know it started, and also adding in the Safe Guess feature made the final four take a little longer. Without those two factors, it would have been about the same length of time as previous games.

Though, I also think the schedules of people didn't match up too well with this turn order. Do people care about having random order, or would it be better to try and order players together who can guess one after the other?

Do people like having a little extra feature like the Safe Guess, or would they rather not have things like that?

Just for reference sake, here's how long the games have lasted from start to finish:

Game 4: 21 days
Game 3: 17 days
Game 2: 20 days
Game 1: 18 days

Anyways, going with Khushrenada's scoring system, here are the standings:

1. NuclearSpeed - 100 pts
2. Oohhboy - 93 pts
3. UncleBob - 87
4. ShyGuy - 81 pts
5. Nickmitch - 76 pts
6. Silenced - 71 pts
7. Stratos - 66 pts
8. Spak-Spang - 62 pts
9. Triforce Hermit - 58 pts
10. Khushrenada - 54 pts
11. lolmonade - 50 pts
12. Soren - 47 pts
13. Insanolord - 44 pts

And here are the overall standings, with the number of games people played in parenthesis.

1. UncleBob - 394 points (4)
2. Triforce Hermit - 301 points (4)
3. ShyGuy - 262 points (4)
4. Stratos - 259 points (4)
5. Insanolord - 235 points (4)
6. Soren - 225 points (4)
7. Nickmitch - 221 points (3)
8. Mop it up - 208 points (3)
9. lolmonade - 200 points (3)
10. oohhboy - 195 points (3)
11. Nuclearspeed - 192 points (3)
12. ObbyDent - 180 points (3)
13. Silenced - 147 points (2)
14. Spak-Spang - 116 points (2)
15. Ceric - 100 points (1)
15. Phil - 93 points (1)
17. BlackNMild2k1 - 76 points (1)
18. Evan_B - 71 points (1)
19. Lucariofan99 - 58 points (1)
20. Khushrenada - 54 points (1)
21. ejamer - 47 points (1)
22. Hypotheliciously - 41 points (1)

[Stratos]

So close, I can taste it!


Thanks for hosting, Mop it up, I had a blast.

[Silenced]

It was indeed interesting. I plan on hosting a game with more gimmicks to spice things up and make a kind of experiment of sorts. I'll determine a theme soon.

[ShyGuy]

More death is needed. Kuribo will rise again!

[Khushrenada]

Wow! Way to go. I thought I was going to have to do the F-Zero point system tabulation myself. Well done! I'm surprised to see the listing of actual game time played. I was wrong about Game 4 taking longer. I guess it just felt long in the beginning but that's always the case with this game. It's really the opposite of Mafia where that can be more fun and exciting at the start and die down by the end whereas Safe Words takes awhile to get through a few rounds but picks up steam at the end.

In that case, the Safe Guess clearly doesn't slow the game down since game time went as normal. Other people can host this game! Looks like the only thing I'm really needed for on these forums is protesting for our Talkback posting rights.....

And one other list I suppose we may want to carry on with. The winner's list. The few, the proud, the elite! The list of Safe Words Winners is:

Game 1 - Ceric
Game 2 - Triforce Hermit
Game 3 - lolmonade
Game 4 - Nuclearspeed
Game 5 - (Not UncleBob)

[Khushrenada]

It was indeed interesting. I plan on hosting a game with more gimmicks to spice things up and make a kind of experiment of sorts. I'll determine a theme soon.

I'd be careful with too many gimmicks. I do think the appeal of Safe Words is still its simplicity.

[UncleBob]

I could blow it on the first round of the next game and still be #1 on the leaderboards without ever winning a game.  Seems like a hollow victory.

[Spak-Spang]

So Khush...if you host a game...you could just have us pick safe words from all your alts...which Khush is NOT a murderer?  It turns out, your alts have a disposition for killing.  Sure it is only one...but for some reason others keep on snapping even after the original alt's murderous ways are stopped. 

[Mop it up]

Well, Game 3 did have 15 players instead of 13 like the other three games, so that could be why it went for 20 days. So, I think the Safe Guess may have extended the game by one day, maybe two at most. Again I ask though, do people care how long these games take? It doesn't look like anyone did and was just making jokes about it, but I'd still like to be clear.

And yeah, as far as gimmicks go, I think it can be fun to have one if it isn't too complex, such as my Safe Guess idea, but I think anything more and it's just too much. At the end of the day, this is still a guessing game, with maybe a little skill in thinking about which words a person might choose as a bomb.

It's Mario Party in forum game form. Sounds good to me.

[Triforce Hermit]

I was only slightly annoyed by the safe passes at the end of the game, what with them extending it longer then it should have been. I don't care how long a game takes though.

[Silenced]

I personally like the idea of adding some more fun stuff, but if people don't want much change I'll be sensitive to majority demands.

[oohhboy]

Safe guess was both hilarious and annoying at the same time. It let me pick the word that I knew was the bomb in order to play my gimmick, but it stole kills from me.

[Spak-Spang]

The Free Pass was an interesting idea.  I think the implication of it needs to be changed.  I have stated my original idea for it.  That it should just be a pass and move along to the next person.

However, I think Mop_It_Ups' idea worked as well.  Though I think if you do pick the bomb word and use your pass then you should get to pick the new bomb word...that could be a fun bonus/benefit for using the pass...and picking the bomb word.

Another idea I flirted around with is having Round 1 have 3 bombs, Round 2 have 2 bombs and Rounds 3-end have 1 bomb.  It could help the game move faster, and add some potential value to the free passes, because earlier rounds you might have more fear. 

[NWR_insanolord]

There really should be something in place that would make people want to use the safe pick ability earlier in the game. As it was, it didn't make sense not to hold it for the very end.

[oohhboy]

Disallowing the use of the safe guess automatically for last word would help.

[Khushrenada]

There really should be something in place that would make people want to use the safe pick ability earlier in the game. As it was, it didn't make sense not to hold it for the very end.

I mentioned earlier in the game that I was saving to prevent a self-eliminating word choice. However, I think if I also had to choose a word in the early rounds where there were only 3 or 2 choices, I may have used it then as well. I'm surprised Triforce Hermit and a couple other players didn't use it at that time. That is also what I like about it. You have your own choice of how you want to use it and there were plenty of players that went out having never used theirs.

[Soren]

So I'm the worst out of the 6 people that have played every game so far.


Yay!