Haggle (rule discovery game) Round 5.

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#23

I didn’t want to intervene, but if I don’t do anything the game will never end. (Especially, if both of you try to solve the game.)

So I implement a 72 hour reaction limit. ( I think 3 days long enough to pick and play 1 out of 5 (or most likely less) cards. )

If you don’t play a card in the allocated time you don’t play any card for your hand.
If any rule checks your card’s value, not playing a card, and any card left in your hand due to inactivity, has a value of zero.

The limit start now.

@iamagummybear you have 3 days to play a card for the third hand. (Since @Zone_Q11 already played his card.)

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#24

i play
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#25

Huh… This is rather… odd.

For my [Round 1, Hand 4], I play a black seven.

#26

Given the lack of response, I assume you don’t want to show your rule.

Still… do we even have anything else we can work with? I feel like it’d be just easier if the two of us cooperate to unravel all the rules, instead of competing against each other.

The game would be very fun to play competitively IRL, but over the forums… I think there is just too much time lag for competition to matter.

#27

No, sorry, i juat forgot to

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#28

Diagonal from top left to bottom right, you choose.
Diagonal from top right to bottom left, your opponent chooses.
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That’s my rule

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#29

Oh… Well that does not bode well for my final hand. (By the way, please don’t forget that it’s your turn now.)

#30

@iamagummybear you have 72 from this post to react.

So so about 60 hours from now.

#31

I play
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#32

Yikes. And here I thought I had it bad.
Here is my fifth and final Hand of Round 1:

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#33

2026-09-23T01:41:00Z

@iamagummybear, please don’t let me win by time-out.

#34

i play
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#35

that’s almost the end of round 1.

@iamagummybear You have 1 choice to make before the round end.

Pick 1 of the following: [Enlarged] or [petrified]
you have 72 hours to react after this post is made.

#36

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idk what these mean so i will wait for dia confirmation if they want to join but in the case it was a joke i choose petrified…

#37

[petrified] was chosen.

That’s end of round 1.

Round 1’s winner is no one… It’s a draw.

Round 1 Zone gummy
hand 1 black nine green nine
hand 2 enlarged card handwritten 5
hand 3 red nine black 8
hand 4 black 7 [petrified] :-: handwritten black 7 [army]
hand 5 [petrified] :/: enlarged card green 5 [army] with black background :I: yellow 5

after round choices: gummy chose petrified between petrified and enlarged.

@iamagummybear @Zone_Q11
Now both of you can guess publicly how many hands did you think you win in the first round, also you can guess any rule you think is in-play.

You can’t guess your opponent score, nor any rule you learned from me. You can guess only one rule per round.

[Sry, I wrote this before I doublechecked every rules, and realized it’s a draw, rule of thumb in later rounds, if it"s not a draw you can guess only your score, not your opponent’s ]

For each correct guess made you will learn a rule in secret.

For hands win guess your result is either correct or incorrect.
For rule guesses, there might be other option.
The results will be revealed publicly.

You both have 72 hours.

[Technically you both have the option of trying to solve the game instead of guessing, but…
It is unlikely anyone can accurately tell at least half of the rules at this point, so I discourage either of you trying this option.]

#38

Do I have to do this in public as well?

Ah. Good to know. That gives me more reason to guess in public.

Guess: The digits [1, 2, 3, 4] are not present in any of the 46 cards used in this game.

Assuming ties are not wins… I guess I won once?

#39

Even if it’s true I wouldn’t really consider the construction of the deck as a rule.
Are you sure, you want to guess this?
[Also this would be an incorrect guess as well, if less of the specified digits is missing than the amount you guessed.]

Ties shouldn’t exist.

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#40

Thank you for the warning.

New Guess: Values of numbers with black background are inverted.

#41

Your guess is:

Inaccurate.

Since it’s not a correct guess you won’t learn any new rule because of this guess.

Your guess is

Summary

Correct

Since it’s a correct guess, You will learn a unique unrevealed rule (if there is any) once both player made their guesses.

#42

@Marluna can i guess the rule i learned from zone since technically i learned it from zone

Also i guess i won one