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 @784e76eb Ha! Make up an alternate rule set that penalizes you for unfinished roads and castles? I love it :-) 
 @b65192d2 Love how your brain went 180 on that one:)

Crazy idea. Come up with completely new rules for board games. Then hold a big tournament for each, but hand out the rules just before the first round starts.

(Would require a judge per game, as it do take time to learn after all.) 
 @784e76eb Instead of a test of mastery of a game, it's a test of how quickly you can absorb and parse rules, tease out winning strategies, and execute them. 
 @b65192d2 And how much you rebel from dealing with a whole new rule set.

Feels like something someone could write a paper on. Like that prison experiment, but not as insane. 
 @784e76eb You mean somebody hasn’t made a tabletop version of the Stanford prison experiment yet? :-)