>Maybe it's just that, once everyone knows the rules of the game, they are reasonably successful in communicating a tiny piece of information (a single number) to each other
It's possible, but highly unlikely that a group of people playing a game for the first time will all get that successful so fast. They weren't all hackers ;-)
>That's because he thought he was supposed to, not because it was necessarily something he would normally have done.
I had the same assumption you mentioned, that's why I had to field test it for validation.
Seriously, next time you wanna poke fun at someone who tells you he just sold his startup, tell him you sold your previous 3 startups and see what happens.
It's possible, but highly unlikely that a group of people playing a game for the first time will all get that successful so fast. They weren't all hackers ;-)
>That's because he thought he was supposed to, not because it was necessarily something he would normally have done.
I had the same assumption you mentioned, that's why I had to field test it for validation.
Seriously, next time you wanna poke fun at someone who tells you he just sold his startup, tell him you sold your previous 3 startups and see what happens.