Stevie: I know its frustrating. But There will always be at least one person fall in every round. It is going to be a long frustrating game no matter. There will probably be more people become pawns before this game finishes, and the same thing will happen all over again anyway. For all we know, Grenv could bet one every round and win, there will likely always be suicide moves. Plus later in the game, people will start to run out of points to play, and there will be plenty more chances to bid low too.

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Vikings: This is the way every game on this site works, why is ponds different?

would make it more exciting I reckon

because it is multiplayer and it is the way fencer set it up

grenv: like I told you in the first place, that would be fine with me, I was simply givings reasons why people wouldn't like it

Did they stop allowing pawns to play in the ponds games?? I am curious due to a friend of mine was going to join in one I started and he is saying he is not able to join it.. he has no other tourneys going either..

Pawns could never join ponds - some pawns are in tournaments now since their membership ran out after they were in, but they are unable to actually move in those ponds.

... but also brings me to a question - Is the limitation for ponds in place for Knights?

And hopefully the membership detail page can be updated with this information - http://brainking.com/game/PaidMembership?p=1

I think players whose membership expire should be able to finish out their existing pond games. The way it is now, they are just clogging up our games and removing most of the fun.

Thad: That wouldnt be quite as bad if others didnt keep bidding 0 ;o)

i think that if membership expires during a pond game, the nascent pawns should sluice into a new pond called the cesspool. It would be an extremely frustrating version of pond designed to take half a year or more to complete with 7 days per move. However, the winner, for resilience and fortitude, would be offered a knight membership equal to the amount of days they spent in the cesspool. What do you think, Fencer, is that a great marketing tool or what?

redsales: It's worth thinking about.

Do we have an official list of pond winners etc yet on here?

Czuch Chuckers: Yes, but wouldn't it solve all the problems, if it was the same for every round, with players who suicide with a "0" bet when they dont want to play anymore.

I agree with Thad. I think it would solve a lot of problems if pawns were allowed to finish ponds they were currently in.. Just like it is done with tournaments etc.. already..

rod03801: I agree. Either let them finish or disqualify them. Either way it would ensure pond games are played more...um....'accurately'?

Stevie: Here you go Stevie

ahh I see, just filter to finished games. Thanks

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=175

Minimum number of players: 26
Maximum number of players: 26
Time per move: 3 days
Start: 13. February 2005, 12:00:00
Current round number: 2
Current round deadline: 24. February 2005, 12:00:09
Time left: 4 days

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?p=0&g=145

This tournament's description has been edited.

However, this was originally described as a "Prize" pond, and has been changed since it started. There no longer looks like it's a prize pond.

Is this/should this be allowed??

Stevie: Thats weird. I checked all the other running games and none of them are longer than they are meant to be.... OH FENCER!

Bry, if it is not supposed to be described as a prize game without Fencer already having the money or being assured of the prize in advance, as far as I remmber.

Czuch Chuckers and Stevie: I have realized that I had explained the rules of this pond wrong. I had to ask Fencer to add some days to make sure that everyone gets the message about that before the round is closed. Now I think it´s ok, so I asked Fencer to "start" another round ...

okie dokie

Czuch Chuckers: It would depend on what prize was being offered????

I have had 3 or 4 prize ponds with 4 prizes, they had nothing to do with Fencer, I paid for the prizes and postage to Texas Toest, Mike UK,Maxxina, and Sinay...there was a bonus prize sent to Arctic Warrior because he fell in the first round.
At this stage Texas Toest has hers....Im waiting to get confirmation from the others :)

BIG BAD WOLF: i also like the idea of ponds going into the next round as soon as every player has submitted their move.

its just like with all other games on here. if you only come online once a day on a fixed time like in bbws example .. then you will not have any games running with 1 day per move .. so you shouldnt have any ponds running with 1 day per move either

only join ponds with 2 or more days per move and you will be fine.

Hrqls: Perhaps such a set up could be made an option for the Pond creator? Sooner or later there's going to be option for the starting points and bonus. Seems like having an option to start the round when all have bid would be another one. I recommend having it so that it goes the whole time limit unless every person enters a bid. That way someone that misses getting to the computer that day will have the most time to log in and will still get their last bid to play if they don't make it on time.

Walter Montego: options are always great for me ;)

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=179

10 players left - 10 players in the pond, and one of the closet games - less then 600 points between the 10 remaining players.

Let me invite you to a slightly different pond than usual The player with the highest bet and the player with the lowest bet is eliminated in every round (except the 1st) - see rules ...

http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=133

Pedro Martínez: Wow - Looks like it might be the first pond with no winner! (If the last bids are the same, everyone falls into the pond and there is no winner!)

... at least I would think both of you would bid the max, but I have seen stranger things.

BIG BAD WOLF: There may be no winner but they still get tied for first place :)

It'd be nice if there was a previous move button for Run around the Pond games like there is for every other game on this site.

I'd like to check out how that game you just posted about ended with both players bidding 714 and falling in at the same time. The rounds just before it must've been unusual.

Walter: I had 1225 points and bet 511, lukulus 1439 (1225), Maxxina 250 (250).

Pedro Martínez: A wild finish. Just looking at how the numbers add and subtract must have made for a lot of thinking about what to bet on that turn. Had you gone with 510, you would've won assuming lukulus stayed with betting your amount. He must've figured you'd bet 1225 and was going to watch you fall into the Pond when you guys tied for high bet and no one got the bonus. Lots of bluff here. If he thought you'd bet 511 or less he could've taken it all with 600.

Walter Montego: Yup, for me there were two options: bet low or bet high...I assumed lukulus would think I would bet everything and bet 1226 (I didn't actually realize that in this case, 1225 would be as good as 1226) + I wanted to bet as high as possible just for the case he would bet low. That's why I went for 511.

How did 3 ppl know that MJL was gonna bid "0" ?
http://brainking.com/game/Pond?g=10
They only bid 1 which seems suspicious to me.

Arctic Warrior: At time like that I wish I could look back 1 round to see if maybe they had 0 points left to bid or something...

BIG BAD WOLF:
I concur

Arctic Warrior: another suspicious bet, some people somehow knew that Ryan From Ohio would not be updating his bet the last couple of days and bet only 1 higher than him

Vikings: What's suspicious about that?

how would anybody know

Are you serious? It's so easy to get to know...

how unless they told someone?

OK: Let us say there is a pond with one day time limit. The moves should be made, say, at 3am today. Now when you go to somebody's profile shortly before the deadline and see that the last time this person was at BK was BEFORE 3am yesterday, you can set your bet to this person's last bet +1 and be sure you won't fall in the pond.

ok, thats too much work for me, but a very good bet in one of the games

of course, I don't look at all the profiles every hour, but when I'm on-line, it's sometimes worthy to check out some of them...

I'll sometimes check the ones with a * by their bet, but usually not that close to the time so I bet as if I never checked