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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">On 2016-01-16 04:43, spike wrote:<br>
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Anders, you are in the epicenter of coolness there in Oxford.
Do you know of people playing Paranoia Risk, or clubs? Are
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Sorry, no info on Paranoia Risk. <br>
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I know there is a gaming society at the university. I am not part of
it, but some of my colleagues and me play boardgames occasionally.
Including testing out our own new games (I have the trolley problem
game of moral dilemmas, Toby has made both a cool rabbit breeding
game involving Game of Life, Fibonacci numbers and trading, and an
amazing six player game of Greek mythology where the gods and heroes
have independent goals). We also have an excellent boardgame cafe
where you pay a cover charge for a table and then can play games
from the enormous library they have. <br>
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Paranoia Risk sounds a bit like the game Lifeboat. There you play a
character that (1) tries to survive, (2) tries to ensure the
survival of a loved one, (3) tries to ensure a hated character dies,
and (4) get extra points that are only worth it if you survive.
Other players do not know who your loved and hated ones are.<br>
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Otherwise the favourite game in our group is of course Pandemic.
Save the world from disease! Our house rules involve how to give
Nobel Prize speeches when you eradicate a particular disease. <br>
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Dr Anders Sandberg
Future of Humanity Institute
Oxford Martin School
Oxford University
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