Pirate Math: Prize or Prison? Final openings cancelled. Room in retirement.

[Sugar]

You are all invited to play my new game, built in Honor of Pirates Month....

Pirate Math: Prize or Prison?

Here's a quick snapshot of the room, taken 3-9-08



Once you make it in the room, should you decide to play, the rules will be posted on the back wall! If you don't want to play, feel free to sit on the side lines like many of my afk friends are in the above picture lol

The game is an interesting combination between guessing and adding... my two favorite things!

Our last openings for the month will be:
Sunday, March 30 (tentative times: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. eastern)
Monday, March 31 (tentative times: 2 p.m. to 5 p.m. eastern)

Sorry we couldn't be open more! Things always get in the way

Here's a little history (if you don't want to read it, read the parts in bold ):
We've been giving away one prize to each winner of the game since we opened on the 7th.
The Monday that the room won, I was giving our two prizes to each winner, before I knew it won.
But now, because of all of your help, I will be giving away four prizes to each winner on the 30th and 31st!
Also, when the game opened, I would let each player have one shot at the sum of the scoreboards.
I realized that I was not getting very many winners later, so I let each player have two shots at the sum.
But now, once again due to the help I received, I will let each player have three shots at the sum on the 30th and 31st!

Thanks everyone to their help!

The game will go into the sugary vault after the end of the month

Sugar

Also needing to mention:
Thanks Purpleduck for those beautiful Red Ariels
Thanks Glufy for those ride pieces, and for helping me fix the room problems!
Thanks Mamacita for helping my merge my two lines into one!
Also a big thanks Hakihea and Max_Power for the donations of game prizes!
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[Sugar]

Hey all!

Game update:

The first two nights of testing went great! Everyone seemed to enjoy the game very much

There were several resolved problems, so my room changes hopefully fixed them.

- Problem #1. Friday night showed me that there was a problem with my line, where it would let more than one person into the contestant area at once. I fixed that by completely rearranging my lines.
- Problem #2. Tonight's opening showed me several things. First, a girl was trading while her turn was up. Many game owners boot immediately when you are trading. I've never been one for booting. With that said, because trading can be a problem, I added a rule that says if you are trading while your turn is up, you are out of there .
- Problem #3. Also, there was a rewording of the rules which does not need to be explained, as I haven't explained the rules on this board.
- Problem #4. I put a Football First Down Marker by the start pieces to get in line, so I can easily explain that the line starts "by the orange arrow".
- Problem #5. I had my first instance of cheating tonight. Neither of the players clicked their scoreboards, and therefore, the total was zero. Since the player was playing against her mule (she told us she was hers), they both knew the total. I reserve the right to click scoreboards when I feel cheating may be taking place.
- Problem #6. The line change as described in Problem #1 proved beneficial, however, I found a problem. The ride made it so that I could not pick back up the Dark Ride Piece that I use to push players to their contestant chair. I fixed this by raising both chairs in each line . Also, I lost the Dark Ride piece I was using to push players behind one of these chairs. LOL! So I put an item back there so it would not happen again.
- Problem #7. Someone jumped off the teleporter behind the prison bars. LOL So I blocked that . Not a huge problem. He did it so I could see that problem.

OK. Lots of problems. Hope I found ALL of them before tomorrow's grand opening. I will post a picture that reflects all of those changes (with people playing ).

I would like to thank Glufy for those ride pieces and for helping me fix those problems!

See you in the game tomorrow afternoon!

Sugar

 

[Sugar]

Bump

We are now having our grand opening!

Sugar

 

[Kairi-Angel]

I was just there, great game idea!



~iEyeliner

 

[BattyMcDoon]

Awesome game! I can't believe I won on my first try.

 

[disneyhockeymad]

I'll come in and check it out in a minute. Looks awesome though!
EDIT: I'm in there now. It's a really good room. But I think that you just gave out a prize to a mule vs mule game!

 

[Sugar]

I was just there, great game idea!



~iEyeliner

Yay! Thanks for the compliments!

Awesome game! I can't believe I won on my first try.

You're just that good! Are you Esmeralda? I appreciate the compliments

I'll come in and check it out in a minute. Looks awesome though!
EDIT: I'm in there now. It's a really good room. But I think that you just gave out a prize to a mule vs mule game!

LOL! I think I did. I tried to fix the chances of that happening. With the two lines, it's much harder for mules to play each other. Either way, it happens
Thanks for the kind words!


Picture being added to the first post

Next tentative opening: Wednesday afternoon.

Sugar

 

[Amber_Kait]

ill see if your open, and if you are, ill stop by

 

[Sugar]

Bump!

We will be open Wednesday afternoon!

 

[MiakodaWDW]

can you tell me what time (i'm in EST)? this looks fun

 

[Sugar]

can you tell me what time (i'm in EST)? this looks fun

Heya! I ended up having the day off today and tomorrow, so our times will be:

Tuesday:
7:15 a.m. through 8:15 a.m. Pacific
(10:15 a.m. through 11:15 a.m. EDT)

Wednesday:
7:15 a.m. through 9:15 a.m. Pacific;
and 3:15 p.m. through 5:15 p.m. Pacific
(10:15 a.m. through 12:15 a.m. EDT;
6:15 p.m. through 8:15 p.m. EDT)

Sugar

 

[Sugar]

Today's opening went great! Only an hour long, but I gave out many a prize!

Mamacita pointed out something, though. She told me that even though the two lines were great, it leads to confusion. So she gave me the idea to combine my lines into one, but still have separate porters to each contestant seat, so two people still play at once.

When I open tomorrow morning, I'll grab a snapshot of the room and re-post it

Also, I moved the orange arrow so it's right on top of the actual start piece for the ride. Additionally, I moved the watchers stand one space forward, toward the ship.

Tomorrow's snapshot will reflect these changes.

Sugar

 

[See.low]

Mamacita pointed out something, though. She told me that even though the two lines were great, it leads to confusion. So she gave me the idea to combine my lines into one, but still have separate porters to each contestant seat, so two people still play at once.

Cita..such a know it all..kaa!

 

[Sugar]

Cita..such a know it all..kaa!

I know, right?

She is earning herself a gold star for the day

You can have the super gold star, though See

 

[Sugar]

a "WE ARE OPEN" bump!

 

[OneLittleSpark]

Great game (even if I did keep guessing way off, lol)!

 

[Sugar]

Hehe! Thanks so much! We are open yet again!

 

[funfly]

Sugar, Sugar!

Had a great time there during test time and last night's game! Great game and lots of fun!!!! Very nice

 

[Sugar]

Hey everyone! I was unable to open today due to things that came up that I had to take care of. The next tentative openings are listed in Post #1

And thanks so much Funfly! You are a wonderful tester! :

Sugar

 

[Sugar]

Bumpers! We were open tonight before CapnMonkeyBrains showed me that I won best game!

I like the pic they used!