Do-it-yourself Card Sharks home game

[alfonzos]

Here's my problem with the dice system: When it's my turn to guess the sum, I'm simply going to sum up the dice I've rolled and add 4.5 (5.5 if the OP is counting the 0's as 10's) for each of the four dice I don't know about. Or I might just guess a flat 45 or 55. If you take out the "human nature" element, then my aim is to make the higher/lower thing as close to a 50/50 shot as I can.

So, once that part of the game is "solved", you might as well just flip a coin.

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My point exactly! The poll on the series is just a method to generate a number from 0 - 100, inclusive to determine who gets to play one's own cards. Rolling 11D10 almost acheives the same result and both players have just enough knowledge to make an educated, but not wholly accurate, guess of the correct number.

Granted, it would be more fun to guess a survey but using the dice you don't need a host to play the game. The game is about the cards anyway. Whether you flip a coin, roll the dice or guess the results of a survey it is just a method to get to those cards.

The game is called Card Sharks not Survey Sharks.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 10:29 AM\']My point exactly!
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If that's your point, you'll have a hard time finding people who agree with it.

Rolling 11D10 almost acheives the same result and both players have just enough knowledge to make an educated, but not wholly accurate, guess of the correct number.

But it's not interesting, is my point. At all. If it's "just a mechanism" and tantamount to flipping a coin, why not just roll 1d10 (or d6 or d12 or d4 or dwhatever) and award control to the player who rolls higher?

[Robert Hutchinson]

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 01:29 PM\']The game is called Card Sharks not Survey Sharks.[/quote]

And, of course, if we want to recreate the feel of playing the game, sticking to the title is much more important than sticking to the gameplay.

The "educated guess" in your version is merely applying a single rule, over and over and over. It'd be like everyone on the TV show telling Jim/Bob/Bill "I know that 50 is halfway between 0 and 100, so I'll guess that 50 people have slapped their mother-in-law/cried at a movie/smuggled drugs through Mexico." Over and over and over. Not a fun time.

[gamed121683]

I've done a homemade version of "Card Sharks" myself and (I'm not sure if anyone else has done this) instead of survey questions, I use "The Guinness Book Of World Records." I try to find an oddball fact with a numerical ordinal and run with it.

i.e. What is the diamater of the world's...largest doughnut? or something to that affect.

The #'s they dream up sometimes do get funny sometimes. Makes a great alternative, IMO.

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 01:29 PM\']The game is called Card Sharks not Survey Sharks.
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It's not called Dice Sharks either.  Geesh, if you want to put someone down who had a perfectly acceptable solution (and I always used to do this too), then you should not expect to be immune from criticism in your concept, either.

[Matt Ottinger]

[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 02:29 PM\']The game is called Card Sharks not Survey Sharks.[/quote]
A surprisingly defensive stance from the person who said in his original post:
[quote name=\'alfonzos\' date=\'Nov 1 2005, 04:07 PM\']Do you think this is a worthy game? Opinions please.[/quote]
It sounds to me as though you have a rather dismissive opinion of the surveys in the first place, and you see them as merely a way to generate a number.  Most of us see the game much differently than that.  But since complete randomness is what you're after, the one cent solution [coin flip] would be every bit as effective as the game you describe, easier to accomplish and exactly as much fun.

[musicman]

Why not have all the questions "educated guess"?  You can turn CARD SHARKS from a fun and entertaining game show, to a fun and educating quiz show that way.  

[Dbacksfan12]

[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 07:22 PM\']Why not have all the questions "educated guess"?  You can turn CARD SHARKS from a fun and entertaining game show, to a fun and educating quiz show that way. 
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Yeah...OK....I think you need a refund on your "education".

My IQ just dropped a few points.

[gsnman]

[font=\"Arial\"]LOL!  

When I was in kindergarten, I was obsessed with the car game on the 1986-89 version.  I was more into Bill Rafferty's version.  I used my grandmother's cards to play it, with the Joker as the CAR.  This, of course, was almost like The Price is Right's pricing game "JOKER."  I used my dad's car, which was a 1987 Nissan Maxima, IIRC, to use in the game, LOL!  Fun times.[/font]

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 05:21 PM\']Yeah...OK....I think you need a refund on your "education".
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And you, sir, apparently need a refund on your Sarcasm Detector.

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'clemon79\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 11:28 PM\'][quote name=\'Modor\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 05:21 PM\']Yeah...OK....I think you need a refund on your "education".
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And you, sir, apparently need a refund on your Sarcasm Detector.

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If musicman was being sarcastic, them I'm Alex Trebek.

[clemon79]

[quote name=\'PYLdude\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 08:25 PM\']If musicman was being sarcastic, them I'm Alex Trebek.

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Upon further review of posting history, I humbly rescind my claim of sarcasm and offer an apology to Mark.

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Nov 4 2005, 08:22 PM\']You can turn CARD SHARKS from a fun and entertaining game show, to a fun and educating quiz show that way. 

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Doing that would be like calling for the bludgeoning of a late-night TV host you find annoying..you just don't do it.

[musicman]

What's so bad about my idea?  If you're going to play CARD SHARKS at home, calling 100 people to ask them...(i.e. "Are you a Democrat or a Republican?") seems impractical and time consuming.

[PYLdude]

[quote name=\'musicman\' date=\'Nov 6 2005, 12:44 AM\']What's so bad about my idea?  If you're going to play CARD SHARKS at home, calling 100 people to ask them...(i.e. "Are you a Democrat or a Republican?") seems impractical and time consuming.

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Musicman, do you even have half a brain?