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1v1 | Turing Test Mafia - Game Over!

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Welcome to Turing Test Mafia.

Two people wake up in a small room. Inside are a table, two chairs, and pistol with a single shot. There does not appear to be a doorway of any kind. As the two people begin to question why they are here, a voice suddenly sounds over unseen loudspeakers.

"Welcome friends," the voice says. "I have invited you here for a little test. One of the people in this room is suspected of being a replicant. These foul robots imitate human life in almost every way. One day, my organization fears they will supplant us. We MUST assess their ability to mimic human life."

As the man speaks, the two people look at each other in wide-eyed disbelief.

"Therefore," the voice continues. "We have devised this simple test. If the human in the room can correctly identify the replicant, he must pick up the gun and shoot it. Guess right, and you will go free. Guess wrong, and, well… You'll have either committed murder or let a dangerous usurper escape into the world.

"I suggest you choose wisely."

This is an open setup game, designed for 2 players, with the following randomly assigned scenarios:

1 Town One-Shot Day-Vig
1 Indy Pacifist

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2 Town One-Shot Day-Vigs

Helpful Links:
Newbie's Guide to Mafia | Basic Rules of Mafia

Fundamental Rules:
  • Please enjoy this game and do not act in a manner that would make the game unenjoyable for others. This includes personal attacks.
  • The Game Moderator is Xatres and all official information and rulings will come directly from the Game Moderator.
  • Editing your posts is not allowed; multi-posting is fine and is encouraged in place of editing.
  • Unless your role specifically states otherwise, or you have initiated a mechanic that allows an exception, you may not converse with any other players outside the thread, dead or alive.
  • Do not quote role PMs or any other form of communication with the Game Moderator. You may paraphrase your role PM as you see fit, but keep everything in your own words! Posting your Role PM or any form of mod communication will result in an immediate modkill. If you are concerned about how to adhere to this rule, contact the Game Moderator.
  • The use of non-English, invisible, hidden, coded, or otherwise intentionally hidden or indecipherable text is strictly prohibited. (Collapse/Spoiler tags are allowed because they are easily noticeable. This rule is not meant to disallow breadcrumbing within the visible text of a message.)
  • Failure to send in your night action(s) will result in no action(s) being taken.
Activity and Deadlines

  • This is a short, fast-paced game. Therefore, in an effort to make the game enjoyable for players and spectators alike, you are required to post every 24 hours. If you fail to do so, you will be replaced without warning.
  • In the event that I need to replace a player, I may extend the deadline to accommodate the replacement player.
  • The Day phase will last approximately 7 days, unless cut short by a kill.
  • There is not Night phase.
Set-Up:

  • This is an Open Set-up for 2 Players with all roles assigned at random.
  • This game is a Full Reveal game, meaning that upon death, role/alignment information about the player is revealed.
  • I confirm that all information relayed from the Game Moderator in public is strictly accurate.

Game Specific Rules and Information:
  • The game ends when either one player shoots the other or when both players vote No Lynch.
  • If the human successfully shoots the replicant, the human wins.
  • If the human shoots another human, both humans lose.
  • If both players vote No Lynch and both are human, both players win.
  • If both players vote No Lynch and one of them is a replicant, the replicant wins.

Human

You are Human, a One-Shot Day-Vig.

Abilities
Day Kill: At any point in the game, if you become convinced that your opponent is a replicant, you make the public command "Day Kill: [Player Name]". The player will die and the game will end. If you guessed correctly, you win. If you guessed wrong, you both lose.

Restrictions
None

Win Conditions
You win when you have correctly identified if your opponent is a replicant and acted accordingly.

Replicant

You are The Replicant, an Indy Pacifist.

Abilities
As an artificial lifeform, you are programmed not to harm human beings. Therefore, you are only capable for voting for a No Lynch.

Restrictions
None

Win Conditions
You win when you have successfully convinced your opponent to vote No Lynch.

Living Units:
  1. Dastrn
  2. ThatSmasherYouKnow
Replacements:

  1. Replacement 1
  2. Replacement 2

Important Posts
  1. This one.
 
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I might be able to participate in this. Also this needs a sticky for future games in this format.
 

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I wouldn't be surprised if he would be interested in passing the mod off to someone to hydra with me.

Xatres Xatres you interested in Xastrn-ing it up?
 

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I'd feel kinda lame announcing a game and then immediately turning around and playing in it. If someone else wants to host a 1v1 as soon as this one's over, then I'll be game.
 

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It's gonna be interesting to see how RVS will work. I'll definitely watch this game.
 

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Well, I don't know how to start this off so I'm just posting to break the ice. :facepalm:
 

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So what's your story? I know we're in another game, and we will both be careful not to discuss anything that could taint the integrity of that game, but I want to hear more about your mafia experience.
 

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Sometime in August: I join my first mafia game
September: have to back out of game
January: I actually check my smashboards account and it just so happened that Spak had tagged me the day before
I join the game, and yesterday I joined this

Side notes, It was August of 2015 if I remember correctly. And I'm gonna be on mobile for the whole day so I might be screwuing up with grammar a lot.
 

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What was your alignment in that first game, and how was your general play received by the group?
 

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When someone read me as town I replied with "So sure about that?" for some reason. I have no idea what was going through my mind.
 

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Well, it's a turing test, right? I should be trying to figure out if I'm talking to a computer or a human, and you should be doing the same. Your disjointed responses followed by computery non-answers have me slightly concerned.

Once upon a time, there was no such thing as "social media" and we all used this program called AIM which was short for AOL Instant Messenger. Well, someone clever came along and developed an AI chat bot called SmarterChild that could have a reasonably complex conversation with you. It was easily the largest attempt at a public AI that could be interacted with by millions of people simultaneously.

There are bits of this conversation that remind me of talking to SmarterChild. It was the year 2000, and I was in college, and we would try to see what kinds of questions it was capable of answering without being distinguishable from a human. Sometimes I was massively surprised. Other times, when it got jammed up, it would resort to responding to a question with a question, like "How is any of this related to the game at hand?"
That typically is readable as a place in which the paper wall of a lie is torn and the liar (unable to truly improvise) must respond with a question instead to put the other party back on their heels.

So what's your general approach to this game going to be? Do you have any plans yet? Any theories?
 

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Um.. My account isn't being taken over by a robot. This game doesn't work that way. My general approach is going to be to try and provoke you to see if you'll threaten to shoot me and then decide if you're human or not.
 

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My point wasn't that you were literally a robot. It was that by asking you questions about this and other games, it would be reasonable that at some point, if you were a robot (in the game), you would have to lie or be really vague about something, since robot in this game is equivalent to scum in others.

I'm attempting to play. By getting you to talk. And asking questions.

Are you tracking with me?
 

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Other times, when it got jammed up, it would resort to responding to a question with a question, like "How is any of this related to the game at hand?"
That typically is readable as a place in which the paper wall of a lie is torn and the liar (unable to truly improvise) must respond with a question instead to put the other party back on their heels.

So what's your general approach to this game going to be? Do you have any plans yet? Any theories?
Understood.

I highlighted my green text here as perhaps a description of what I was getting at.

The game is only 7 days and will probably be over before we realize it, so let's get active. You need to ask me some questions so you know if it's safe to shoot me or not. And I'd like to know what your thoughts are on the blue text above. What do you think we can do to sort this out. Do you have any theories on how we can find out if the other is trustable or not?
 

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All right, sorry for the late reply. I have 2 different strategies. One of them is the same thing you are doing, and the other goes a bit like this: Human tries to provoke opponent. If the opponent doesn't act, then opponent is robot and human shoots. If robot does threaten to kill, both vote no lynch and humans win. Of course, this can be easily exploited now that I posted it in this thread, but... Whatever.
 

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I see some big holes in your strategy.

All right, sorry for the late reply. I have 2 different strategies. One of them is the same thing you are doing, and the other goes a bit like this: Human tries to provoke opponent. If the opponent doesn't act, then opponent is robot and human shoots. If robot does threaten to kill, both vote no lynch and humans win. Of course, this can be easily exploited now that I posted it in this thread, but... Whatever.
Addressing the green first. If you provoke and the opponent shoots and you were town all along, then you both lose.
Addressing the blue: If your opponent was a robot and threatened to kill, would you really vote no lynch? That would let a robot win and would force you to lose. You would be assuming an awful lot about the strategy of your opponent.

I think in both scenarios, you are assuming that the other player has the same gameplan as you. Moreover, if you are in any way wrong about that assumption, you lose.

Can you come up with a way to get closer than a guess that you and your opponent are both working under the same plans? Imagine the best plan a robot could come up with in your head.
Then imagine the best plan a human could come up with in your head. (I think that's what your plan was supposed to be, but I think you can do better. You seem clever.)

Apply the human plan against multiple human plans that seem reasonable and see how many lead to human wins.
Apply the human plan against however many reasonable robot plans you can come up with and see how many lead to human wins.
 

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I think I know what your alignment is, btw, but I can't give my assumption just yet, or how I'm arriving at my very early guess just yet.

I'm a human.

If you're a human and believe me already, you're welcome to vote no lynch and I promise I will do the same.
If you don't believe me yet (or you're a robot), or think I'm lying, then we still have several days to sort things out.
 

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-_- How did I not catch that mistake. -_- Instead of "robot" in the blue text I meant to put human. And, yeah, I'm pretty sure you're human, but I'd rather wait a little longer to sort things out.
 
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