Week 9

For the game we played in class my group played Hanabi, Japanese for fireworks. In the game the cards are made up of a limited number of a suite of 6 different colors of fireworks of differing colors. The goal of the game is to stack up the fireworks in ascending numerical order(Altice Page 9), however the twist in the game is that you can’t see you can’t see your own hand. The whole design of the game is meant to encourage gameplay through teamwork, since you have to work together as a team to disclose your cards and work together to create a full suite of 5 colors with 5 numerals together. The whole game is interesting because you only have 2 chances to get it wrong since if you get it in the wrong order the whole play is going to penalize you, the 3^rd time you get it wrong you lose the game. You have 8 tokens that represent the information you can give to your teammates, either the number or color of their cards, and you can regain them by discarding a card. You can also possibly use the cards to make your guesses more informed if you are more aware of the certain idiosyncrasies of the cards in order to gain an advantage using textural clues(Altice Page 11),. You only have a limited number of each card so if you discard the wrong card too many times you will lose the game guaranteed. The watch it played video I choose was of the card game Venn(https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3kkUMS956cU). For the card game Venn you are using a randomly selected word using the given cards that give you a number 1 out of 12 (Altice Page 9) that all correspond to different words that are describing different things like, giant, time, and other vague things so you can match given picture cards to the given Venn diagram to make the players try to guess the three different words assigned by the player giving the information to the other players. The goal of the game is to guess all three descriptive words before the other team or to just guess them depending on the game type you choose for your group.