Play-by-Email INWO Game

For eleven months, from October 25, 1996 until October 1, 1997, I ran a play-by-email INWO game. I maintained all the decks and power structures, and I roledl the dice; furthermore, whenever players conspired among each other, they sent me Cc's of their messages.

The object of running this game for me was to generate a complete transcript of an INWO game, for three purposes:

• To be a teaching tool for new players to learn the rules of INWO, since there are some players who learn better by example than from the rules.
• To be an example of strategy and of conspiracy, for the benefit of players who know the rules, but want to learn about how people actually tend to play.
• To be a point of discussion for players, to talk about strategy and 'what-would-have-happened-if' discussions.

It's been a lot of fun watching this game unfold and seeing an omniscient perspective.

I provide these pages about the game:

• A summary of the history of the game.
• The full record of the game:
  • The public history of the game. (206K)
  • The record of what cards each player had in his hands. (68K)
  • The record of conspiracies among players. (527K)
  • Players' comments on the game in progress. (320K)
• Various histories of the game:
  • Jason Bostick's history of the game.
  • Aaron Curtis's history of the game.
• The public state at the end of the game.
• The player's original decks:
  • Don Fnordlioni
  • James Eddleman
  • Thany
  • Jason Bostick
  • Glen Barnett
• The player's hands and decks at the end of the game:
  • Don Fnordlioni
  • James Eddleman
  • Thany
  • Jason Bostick
  • Glen Barnett

See also the history and hands from the two-round experimental game that we played before beginning this game.

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