Open 853 - PYP X/Y S_S [game over!]

[Aristeia]

1, 4, 4

might be a scum claim answer

[humaneatingmonkey]

80085

If I turn my phone upside down it turns into something naughty

sqooq

[Aristeia]

80085

If I turn my phone upside down it turns into something naughty

you have such a dirty mind

[humaneatingmonkey]

std you're such a pig

[Save The Dragons]

Sqooq is my new favorite word

[Save The Dragons]

Wow I don't even like boobs

[implosion]

I think it'd depend on who the other scum are. I think the automatic thing I'd want to do is try to think of what I'd do as town and have the others do the same, and just submit those numbers possibly editing them to avoid collisions.

[Gamma Emerald]

I'm townbinning everyone with a number above 100

we are masons as far as I am concerned.

if this turns out to be tragically wrong later it's not my fault

I agree titus probably town, less convinced about anyone else in that set

[Gamma Emerald]

I have a cool thought experiment I want to try.

Let's all write down which three numbers we would submit if we were running a scum team.

I will explain after everyone writes down their numbers how this will help us.

I will go first.

1, 3, 13

7, 7, 4

[Roden]

1, 4, 4

I have a cool thought experiment I want to try.

Let's all write down which three numbers we would submit if we were running a scum team.

I will explain after everyone writes down their numbers how this will help us.

I will go first.

1, 3, 13

I'd probably try to be tactical and talk it out with the team first. If it was entirely my choice, probably 4, 11, 19. Since I think they would be uncommon low numbers. But one team mate having an unreasonably large number does have some strategic merit.

Actually, I'm guessing that's why STD asked me about my vote.

[implosion]

I did look at some recent runs of the setup when I was picking my number. I think the most interesting one was one where the biggest 3 numbers were all scum (though those numbers were much less big than the big numbers here - 18, 20, 42). It was also an explicit gambit in the scum PT.

I don't think Titus's number makes her auto-town (maybe a bit town, idk) but I do think Gamma's comment is +town.

[humaneatingmonkey]

why would you doublebid as scum i dont get it

[implosion]

I am curious why Mala and Aristeia both have large powers of 2 (really it's quite impressive that 9/14 players submitted some power of 2 but almost certainly not meaningful)

[implosion]

why would you doublebid as scum i dont get it

It's an anti-associative gambit.

[Aristeia]

I am curious why Mala and Aristeia both have large powers of 2 (really it's quite impressive that 9/14 players submitted some power of 2 but almost certainly not meaningful)

I will give a free townread to anyone who can figure out why I picked my number ^_^

[implosion]

I think this is actually the fewest number collisions that have ever happened in the draft in this setup - out of the 17 other runs of the game I see one that had 5 people colliding and one that had 6, but this takes the cake with only 4, and most of them had like... in the vicinity of 8-9 people who picked the same number as someone else.

This could theoretically be meaningful in some useful way but probably isn't.

[implosion]

I've now realized that I missed a handful of games that weren't on the wiki page - I think it's still fewest though. Also Titus has done this before, but last time she submitted one more 9 than this time. Curious.

[Dwlee99]

1, 4, 4

might be a scum claim answer

That was the joke, correct

[humaneatingmonkey]

VOTE: ari i dont like the vibe

[Aristeia]

this chart is stolen shamelessly from Andante in the last PYP:

[Aristeia]

weird how many people won't do a simple thought experiment in good faith

[Bellaphant]

VOTE: ari

I hate numbers

[Titus]

I'm townbinning everyone with a number above 100

we are masons as far as I am concerned.

if this turns out to be tragically wrong later it's not my fault

I agree titus probably town, less convinced about anyone else in that set

Why are you saying this? You ought to be aware of the last game.

[Titus]

As for the answer, I could not fathom it without knowing my team.

[Titus]

As scum, I'd pick very different numbers with strong dayplayers versus strong nightplayers.