Buy the Bullet

Buy the Bullet is a negotiation, bidding, and targetting game based on concepts similar to Ready Aim Fire and Ferris Wheel. It was brought to MafiaScum by Pablito.

Each round one bullet will be offered and the player that earns the bullet can then target any player who will then be executed. However, earning that bullet will require negotiation and strategy based on the limited resources that players have to start. Furthermore, executed players still have a chance to affect the outcome, because their unused cards can be pledged to alive players for use later in the game! Who will buy the bullet and who will bite the bullet?

Rules

• Every player begins with four cards in their hand, one of each card suit. Players will not be granted any new cards until all cards in the alive players have been used. No new cards will be given to any players unless everyone is empty-handed.
• Cards are used to bid for the bullet. Each round, players will either privately play a card in their hand or no card. Players are given 48 hours to PM the mod their choice. The player that bid with the highest ranked unduplicated card for that round will win the bullet. In the case of ties all around, no one will win the bullet and all cards in that round will be discarded. Each round all bid cards will be discarded whether a bullet has been bought or not. If all bids are in, the results may be announced earlier than 48 hours but at minimum 12 hours will pass before results are announced.
• Cards are ranked in this order Diamonds ♦♢ > Hearts ♥♡ > Spades ♠♤ > Clubs ♣♧.
• For example if in round one, five players played the following, then D would win the trick. Diamonds cancel each other out for duplicating, and the next highest card in the trick is Hearts. However, if E played a Heart, then no one earns the bullet, and all played cards are discarded. All bids are made public on each round. All cards in hand are also public.
  • A - No card
  • B - Diamond ♦
  • C - Diamond ♦
  • D - Heart ♥
  • E - Club ♣
• If all alive players submit "no card", then all dead players will have 24 hours to publicly vote for which alive player should lose their highest-ranked card as a penalty for the unanimous "no card" submission. The alive player who receives the most votes will lose their highest-ranked card. If there is a tie, then all of the votes on the tied players will be removed and the alive player who received the next most number of votes will receive the penalty and lose their highest-ranked card. If this means that no player has earned the most votes due to cancellations, then no player will receive the penalty to lose the highest-ranked card.
• The player that earns the bullet will have 24 hours to then announce in thread whom s/he would like to execute/shoot. The executed player is then removed from contention from winning. The executed player retains all cards still in his/her hand and will likely affect the outcome of the game. Alive players can communicate via PMs. Dead players can continue to post only in thread after death to continue negotiating with players.
• Because it is very likely that alive players will run out of cards before the end of the game, dead players may pledge one card each round in his/her hand to any alive player. To do so, a dead player must post in bold like so Pledge: Heart to xofelf. Once a card is pledged to an alive player, the choice cannot be undone unless the recipient is later executed.
• Once all alive players run out of cards, all pledged cards will be given to alive players.
• After pledged cards have been given to alive players, once a round occurs in which all dead players run out of cards or no more cards are pledged in a round, then all dead players are fully removed, can no longer pledge cards in the game and all alive players are given four new cards.
• Failure to submit a bid before deadline will give a player a strike. First strike - Submit "no card". Second strike - Submit "highest non-winning card". Third strike - Modkill/DQ. Failure to shoot someone before deadline leads to receiving a strike and a 24 hr extension of deadline. Penalty will apply during next bidding phase.
• Play continues until only one player remains - who is then announced the winner.

Game Record

Game Name	Moderator(s)	Players	Type	Run-Time	Days	Winner(s)	Runner(s)-up
Buy the Bullet	pablito	10	Non-Anonymous	Jun 04 2016 - Jul 20 2016	47	Aronis	StrangerCoug