The Seventh Metadynasty
July 15, 2013 - September 4, 2013
Ascension Address
This is a metadynasty, therefore it has no Ascension Address.
Players
Final Ruleset
Some gamestate relevant to this dynasty is archived at Question.
Posts of Interest
- Fresh Start allowed players to pick two Wikipedia "vital articles": one as their public Image, and another as their secret Style, tracked with a hash. It also gave everyone a number of Eyes
- Fresher is Better allowed limited changing of Images
- Don’t Be Cramping My Style let players drop Hints about their Style, by revealing a letter it did not begin with, or a number it did not relate to
- Guess Who allowed players to make (rare) guesses of each other's Styles
- 20 Questions permitted the posing of direct yes-no questions to other players about their Styles, at a cost of Eyes
- Confucius Say encouraged players to quote from their Image when voting
- Find Your Style forced players to choose Styles
- SKJU - Is your style a person?
- Style Over Substance retired the gimmick of all rules so far having been titled with non-alphanumeric characters
- Purplebeard: Is your style in People?
- Filler Up created Challenges
- Skju: Is your Style currently Alive?
- Start Things Off With A TvTropes Reference proposed that "The first Player to Obtain the Diamond achieves victory.", with no context
- Acceleration added more Eyes to the game
- Challenge: Purplebeard 1 2
- Trying this again allowed a player to win by making their Hints a superset of all others: this is how the dynasty would eventually be won
- Challenge: Purplebeard G F
- Global Questioning System let players ask global yes-no questions to the group
- Global Question: Does your Style start with a letter in your Hints?
- Global Question: Is the first letter of your Style contained in the letters of your answer to this question?
- (... this went on a bit; a full list of Global Questions are tracked on the Question wiki page)
- The Precious Stone gave the Diamond to anyone who could work out three other players' Styles
Ascension
After a long series of Global Questions, most players were either Impossible; intentionally, accidentally, or as a result of having their Style guessed due to all the questions they had to answer. Purplebeard managed to reach an Absorption victory despite all this: he managed to keep his Style safe because it was the reasonably hard to guess "See also", which fit the letter of the Style-determining rule (being a heading on the relevant Wikipedia page, and thus numbered), but which was not on the lists that most people would be gathering Style from.
