Elffaw: " Honey, let's take a picture over there, before I give you a fifth scar! " - 0 pts
Lady Aces: "A blind date at the beach" - 17 pts
aEniMUs: "at least now she doesn't know whether I'm looking down her top" - 5 pts, 4 vts
Big Daddy Grimm: When your girlfriend is SERIOUS about the no head rule during LENT - 16 pts
Twip: Losing your head over exercise - 7 pts
Plehq: The headless Horsefamily beach trip (1836 colorized) - 3 pts
rotavator1: what a bright sunny day - 2 pts
Monarch309: "Honeymoon couple show off their joint love for AirHeads(tm)" - 2 pts
Rgarz1: "Frankly this new fad diet really makes me lightheaded dear." - 8 pts
Good Potato: on a date but forgot the heads at home - 1 pt
Eyelash:
"No one:
Sid from toy story with is sister's dolls:" - 5 pts, 2 vts
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(Original, edited by Patrick, additional work by JXQZ for this version)
Gambling in its essence is guessing on outcomes, on whether this will happen or not and whether you're willing to put up the money for what you believe. Gambles always have odds and odds dictate a big difference between safety and risk, and even that isn't sure.
Is it then possible to make a game that's more focused on how one gauges such odds? There's an attempt at that, Borel is a game interested in probabilities as much as it's interested in gamblers' intuitions.
I bought an already-opened set with a missing instruction manual, but the website sets the gist of the rules enough for me to construct the basics. The equipment includes an hourglass, dice, a coin, wooden balls, felt bags and tons and tons of cards. With so much dedicated equipment they didn't bother adding watermarked pencils or paper, which you will also need.
As the game is more focused with probabilities, the inclusion of a money element felt more of an afterthought(100, 300, 800 bets and chips for 100, 500, and 2500 make total sense). The game plays as follows, an experiment card is placed, and after some preparation, you will have to wager an amount and a guess if a proposed outcome will happen on that attempt. The experiment is then executed and bets are settled after a conclusion is made.
Pretty straighforward, but there are some extras, a one-time free bet where it's a $1,500 gain or no loss; and two repeats per player where an experiment will be repeated and another round of bets made. The game can go on with a pre-determined amount of rounds and whoever has the most money wins.
In essence Borel is a gambling game without the hangups of having to deal with too much probabilities; it's an either-or. Theoretically, you can take every experiment and calculate how likely the result is, but thinking time is limited for that reason. Like an actual gamble, you don't have all day to decide what to bet on, not that it makes your odds any better.
A disappointing thing with the experiments is that they fall into categories based on the needed equipment, and the equipment needed never overlap. I am fully aware that suggesting that much will make the probabilities in play a mess, but the game is so expandable by virtue of its lacking.
Not to say guessing the experiments are a breeze; they rarely are. The intuitions kick in once you have to take the elements of the gamble into account and infer stuff. Just like in a casino the game is designed to have as much elements available as possible while keeping the probabilities rather murky.
Really, the money aspect is arbitrary at best, you can easily make variations out of this aspect like actually making the game a gambling game, whether this is a game worth pooling out your pockets for is a matter of subectivity, better assign a croupier.
I do have to commend the minimal design, really going for an abstract look as to keep focus on the probability, though you don't really need an ornate felt to make gamblers flock your table (slot machines are something else altogether).
But the purpose of the game is not merely gambling, but also as a tool for probability. In fact, it has enough material to teach a lot about how probability works. If you're a teacher, you might find this game useful, otherwise you'll have to take your chances.
SwordsRCool: Haha, and to think all my Teachers said I would amount to Nothing- Look st me now haha - 2 pts
LinkFromLoZ: Amazon is committed to getting your delivery on time even during this crisis, and we're deploying a new variety of drone to help with that. - 4 pts, 3 vts
Judalin: Day 10 of solo quarantine. Amazon Box is my only friend. I love you, Amazon Box. - 4 pts, 2 vts
Rgarz1: It is the year 202X, Amazon has taken new extreme measures to improve it's delivery of packages. - 7 pts
Nasius: The Real reason Bezos wanted the donations. - 8 pts
Elffaw: " Introducing the new amazon shipping service, the "$!@#$#@&", guaranteed to bring you packages while you sleep, and feast on your children, for the low low price of just an extra 6.99$, now THATS selling your soul! " - 9 pts
Lena Linguine: "This quarantine is making me feel really boxed in." - 6 pts
Monarch309: Social Distance Foreplay - 3 pts
ggar: "Public Stunned as Amazon Makes Bold New Changes to their Shipping System" - 16 pts
Vsevedzna: New amazon package delivery drone, now with included 4 legs - 1 pt
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Basref Vrumjuhon: Phil decided to give up his profession as a doctor on national TV and instead yell the word AMERICA as loud as possible - 8 pts
Johnny Fox: maka america phil again - 5 pts, 2 vts
Rgarz1: After leaving public television, Dr. Phil has pursued his dream of music starting his hit band Trapped In My Phillings - 6 pts, 2 vts
Rather Dashing: Hail Satan, hmmk? - 5 pts, 3 vts
Elffaw: " You see, I was born at the ranch, molded by it. I didn't see the real world 'till I was a REAL man. " - 9 pts
no one 1: even in fame, being bald is a shame - 3 pts
testostronaut: "my kids still wont talk to me" - 6 pts, 5 vts
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