I still think for that the concept must be sufficiently present to be able to reflect and consciously use it. You may gain intuition but it will not help you toward overcoming e.g. The concepts are all mingled up, skewed, hidden. I think it does some calibration of (over)confidence and it builds intuition for probability and risk-trade-offs.īut - and that is my main point - it doesn't have clear concepts. The two-phase setup where you can look where the 'experts' bet is interesting but doesn't help with confidence calibration.The simple payout-rules cause gaming for higher payouts thus mixing confidence and probability in non-trivial ways.The 'going over' rule is simple but totally skews the betting and guessing.Play with your Facebook friends or random players. Youll earn chips for either having the best answer or for knowing who does. Not confident in your guess Just bet on another players answer. The questions have an american cultural bias (no wonder) In Wits & Wagers, you dont need to have all the answers to win.It is very seldom that values lie outside a times 2-range. It’s clear no genuine knowledge is being requested when the questioner is asked to clarify the meaning of the inquiry. The trivia questions are not difficult enough.We're working on a possible television game show now.ĭominic tried it out and it is much easier to play than my game (see ) and thus is somewhat more fun. The extreme answers pay out less often than the middle answers (though not an infrequently as the odds might lead one to believe). We've done a fair amount of stats on the payouts. Feel free to change the rule if you'd like to use the game for some academic purpose. That rule is there to facilitate quick play, making it easy to quickly know the answer that is going to payout for the round. You do not need to use this constraint if you have a calculator handy. I also noticed that a lot of people brought up the "closest without going over" aspect of the game. In short, Wits & Wagers is fun because you are engaging in activities that are an important part of everyday life. It rewards you for making educated guesses, for knowing the interests of your friends (being social), and for making smart bets (managing risk). Why? Because they reward you for regurgitating the same facts you had to memorize for standardized tests. "Other trivia games can make you feel like you're taking an academic test. Here is something from our website that seems relevant to your conversation: If there is anything else out there similar, please let me know. I'm the designer of the game and we're in the process of getting 2 patents on what we thought were unique concepts. What game have you played that is "very much like" Wits & Wagers? To my knowledge, there is nothing like it on the market right now. "I have played it, or something very much like it."
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