Some of my questions were brought up during the post-event discussion, but I could not quite find the answers.

First is about how the players seemed to be less willing to give out fake codes than expected. For me it is partly because I couldn't know if another player is holding the same code, in which case by giving out a fake code I probably can't slow down another player much, but risking possible future trades (once wpegg verify that the code from me is a fake) with the same player.

To ensure the code parts don't get buried I assume every part is given to at least two players? It would help me to decide on the strategy if I knew how many others had the same parts.

This is also related to how the codes are assigned. None of the code parts I got are for games on my wishlist, which if is by design, I think is brilliant. This forced me to track down the players who showed interest in those games. But on the other hand, this makes me more willing to give out the real code, because I wouldn't gain much from giving out a fake.

Before the game I figured I would try to give fake parts about half of the time - or all the time. But when the game actually started I suddenly realized that time is a huge factor (once I found that I don't have any of the parts for the games I wanted), and so in the end I did not give any fake parts. This could be just me, but it would help if I had one or two parts for games on my wishlist, in which case I will almost certainly lie about those parts, and perhaps even lie about the games I am actually interested in.


While wpegg's oroginal format already worked beautifully, I think mondo84's suggestion is very interesting, to say the least. On the other hand, maybe the true identity of each game could also be part of the currency? that is, perhaps player A knows Teenagent = SimCity 2000, and player B knows Warsow = Fallout, etc. This information could be quite valuable, and I suspect people would try to lie about it.