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the topic and then run for the hat. From there, they had 30 seconds to prompt
him with the answer, which he then needed to repeat (sneaky memory trick as a
game rule).
But the competition was so intense that pullers would grab the Hat of Knowl-
edge before other guild members had found the answer, hoping that the answer
ritual could be completed correctly in the allotted time. The only penalty for this
was that if the guild failed to answer the question in time, they could not try a
second time. The remaining guilds would race for the hat again, and since their
guilds already knew the question, they had much more time to find the correct
answer.
In addition to adding XP for this guild vs. guild competition, I added a new rule
that was designed to address exactly what the student would ultimately complain
about. Since I was adding XP, I wanted to try a two-tiered point system to focus
attention on the intellectual, rather than the physical. The puller would have a
chance to try and answer the question on her own before her guild could find
the answer. But she would only get one point for it. If she waited, and grabbed
the hat only after her guild signaled her they had the answer, and they indeed
answered the question correctly, the guild would get two points.
Explaining this idea led to so much confusion, however, that I finally asked the
class if they wanted to try it, or should I simplify the rules. They overwhelmingly
voted for the latter. Allowing them to vote on the change in rules meant only the
one student complained after it was all over. Not bad, but in the future, if this
mini-game remains the same, I will try subtracting game points from the tally,
whether they translate to XP or not, for wrong answers. That should shift the
gameplay from
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grab and hope
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to
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learn and then grab.
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Midterm Boss Mob (Frost Lizard)
There were 50 questions on the midterm. And 40 of them were to be answered
individually. For the last 10 as long as one member of a guild had the correct
answer, all got credit. The satisfaction of helping the other members of the guild
was the intrinsic reward.
At the top of the midterm was an introductory paragraph that one might not
usually expect to see on an exam:
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