Future Challenge General Rules!

[Judge Sam]

This Episode you will be competing in a challenge called the Future Challenge. What is the challenge? How do you play it? What will you win?


Each round you will compete in a different mini-challenge. I will post the rules when the round begins and will give you 5-10 minutes to read the rules and ask questions. They all should be pretty simple. Before each round, everyone should meet in the spies6 AIM chat room. Pretty much each challenge we will all talk there. Each mini-challenge is worth a certain # of points. At the end the team with the most points wins!


Team? I thought those were gone! Well they are, but this challenge has two teams: Spies 6, and the Future. It's all of you versus the future. You may have met some denizens of the future last night... you will be competing against them in this challenge. (no, none of them is me lol) For most of the games it's all of you versus one of them. Surely you've got the advantage. Win and show them spies 6 pride!


Another thing, the Future People will be playing as represenatives of the Spies. If the future wins the most points in the mini-challenges, the Spies receive a reward. If Spies 6 wins, the citizens receive a reward.


For that reason, the Spies may or may not decide to sabotage the games... so maybe that will even out the playing field a little bit.


So what do you win?


This game is all about roles. While things may have been relatively quiet in the role front so far, that soon will change. The winners of this challenge (spies or citizens) will receive:


- power-ups to each role on their side
- a role investigation (does ____ have a role?)

If the citizens win the role investigation I will create a public poll and players will vote on who will receive it.


A role investigation in itself could be quite powerful... even if just to take it out of the hands of the Spies. If that's not enough I'm sure a lot of role powerups (or again, preventing the Spies from receiving role power-up/s) should be enough to make things interesting.


I think that about covers it. If you have any general questions please ask.

[Judge Sam]

I don't think I said this right. The idea for this challenge was just a bunch of fun mini-games. You come to 2 or 3 or 4, play a cute game as a team for maybe 20 minutes, then go on with your life. I did not expect olympic level intensity in a 50-minute game of 20 Questions.


The prize is not game-breaking, and each challenge is just 1 out of 10 mini-games. They aren't always going to work out properly, you'll mess up, I'll mess up, those things happen. I do apologize for the screw-ups in Round #4 with the colored puzzle. I thought that was a fun puzzle but my errors with photobucket and it being frustrating to work with (it is a 20 second ordeal to copy a URL from there and it works half the time ) plus the stupid formatting thing that was a relic from when that puzzle was used in a challenge I scrapped screwed it up.


It's a little bit my fault but I'm not going to post 5,000 word rules essays encapsulating every single possibility for each of these 10 challenges. I did not playtest them with a 100 people over the last month. If something is going wrong during the challenge I may change it. If it's taking too long for a simple game I'm going to put on time limits. Simple stuff.


I think most people understand this. I sure hope you are not coming to every single puzzle that doesn't sound fun to me because I have to do that haha. Like I said before it's not like OMG THIS PRIZE CHANGES THE GAME FOREVER AND IF WE DONT WIN THIS 90 MINUTE GAME OF TIC-TAC-TOE THEN GAME OVER.

[Donald]

The next game is a game of tic-tac-toe?

Those futures are going down. I NEVER lose!

[Levi]

A 90 minute game of tic tac toe? Wow.