is a hilarious game show where four judges try to determine which of three contestants is telling the truth about their fantastical talent/life experience/career/etc. This contestant is sworn
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Online, this sort of thing becomes much easier to fake, so this version of the game will
not allow research of any kind by either contestants or judges.
So if a judge asks a lying contestant how many miles per hour you drive that supersonic jet for the military, you don't have to be accurate, but you
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You can /in as a contestant, a judge, or both. Anyone interested in being a contestant is assumed to be equally willing to lie or
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If you /in as contestant, please PM me at least 1-3 fascinating things about your life (it doesn't need to get super personal, but it does need to be interesting and true!). I will choose the honest and lying contestants for each round, which will last probably 4-ish days, depending on how the first round goes.
I like the newer iteration of this game show and its super-casual approach to judging. For our purposes, anyone can /in to judge at any time, even the middle of the round, and anyone can ask any contestant a question at any time, as long as you don't hog the thread or turn things into some intense interrogation. At the end of the round, all current judges will have 24 hrs to PM me who they think is the liar (you can PM me earlier if you want, and you can change your mind before deadline if you want). Correct judges get a point, and all three contestants get a point if a majority of judges do not guess correctly. I will keep track of points but they will never mean anything other than points.
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In post 0, Irrelephant11 wrote:If you /in as contestant, please PM me at least 1-3 fascinating things about your life (it doesn't need to get super personal, but it does need to be interesting and true!).
If you are /inning as contestant or as both, please do this! Not all of you have. Thanks!
You can ask questions to as many contestants as you like, just don't ask multiple questions of one player (maybe you can do two if they're related) at a time, so the contestants don't have to write a paper every time they come to post
A reminder to judges and potential judges: (expired on 2018-08-04 17:00:00) remaining.
Are the contestants interested in having the option of asking each other a question or two, just to have more to answer? Or is that too complicated/weird?
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Removing the limit on number of questions per judge/contestant for now, just don't abuse this
In post 25, Inferno390 wrote:I want to /in for both.
I’ll pm you my facts shortly.
Great! If we've got another player, I'll keep this going! Maybe I'll also /in as a contestant (I can never judge, since I know who sent what, but I can participate on the other side sometimes).
It was a skit/advertisement thing? I don't know exactly what to call it. I was one of a few students working for the admissions department at my smallish college, and I went onstage at a music festival to tell people to consider attending our school in a fun/funny way. We shot t-shirts from a cannon and everything
I felt very tired and a little gross, but my nerves and adrenaline also had me slightly wired. Overall it was a little disorienting but thankfully we had a very simple script laid out in advance, so that helped me stay stable onstage
so does StrangerCoug, leaving Inferno390 standing alone!
It was Inferno390 all along! Mallowgeno and xRECKONERx each get a point for guessing correctly, while neither Invisibility nor the contestants receive anything.
Spoiler: Standings
mallowgeno
StrangerCoug
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Inferno390
Irrelephant11
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James Brafin apparently had inside info on this round, and I wasn't sure if it would be revealing to the judges to know that he had such info. So I deleted it. thankfully, JB can join us for the next round, coming soon!
Thanks @all for being casual about deadlines, which I'm apparently bad at
If anyone wants to send in guesses, feel free! I had fun playing this out for a few rounds, but I also learned I don't have the focus/free time to be a moderator right now. I'll post results for this our final round tomorrow.