The sounds of bombs and gun fire. The Mole has turned into a WAR ZONE!
This week we had a game of minefield, and a game of paintball ^_^.
In mission #6, everyone chosen to be above ground (including myself) were facing off against the person selected as the follower ( Elias5891). If we had a runner, at any time we could post that we began running, and then 20+ minutes after we could post again to finish out run. If we successfully completed our run we'd add $5,000 to the pot! However, if Elias was on and willing, he could shoot us and we would not earn the money. But why on earth would Elias do that? Well, one of us was randomly chosen to have an Exemption, if Elias shot that person, Elias would win the Exemption instead!
So what went down?
barkmrck3tg decided to run right away, which was probably good, considering Elias wasn't on yet and hadn't read the challenge.
Elias did indeed come on, but was nice and said one person can run, so I took my chance and earned $5k for the team!
Elias then stipulated he'd be back at a certain time and if anyone made it between then he wouldn't shoot. turney1805 choose to run, but he was 2 minutes short, so we all knew Elias would be back and have 2 minutes to decide whether to shoot turney or not, and he did. :(
Ethan000 went next and I pretended I had a gun to shoot him with. Based on his reaction I don't think he is The Mole... OR was it all a facade? Perhaps he knew I was faking and he responded angrily to throw everyone off... hmmm...
I think Elias5891 performed like a genuine player. He wasn't too greedy but gave himself a 1/8 chance of winning an exemption. However, if he wasn't The Mole, he could have said from the get go that he wasn't going to shoot but 1 player... by playing around with us, he was perhaps delaying our time and setting players up to be too scared to run and cost us all money. Overall, I think Elias was a great guy and very true to his word, Mole or not, he is a swell dude! ^_^
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So onto Mission #7! Basically this group was playing a game of minefield, where the "mines" are replaced by "moneybags"... but watch out, because one of the squares is a BOMB that would instantly lose all the money earned for that challenge!
insertnamehere3 did a couple of things to put him on my mole list. First, he selected 2 squares at once. Ideally, one would wait until the results of the first square to determine where they'd go next (although in all honesty, with the two choices insert made, I don't think either square would have had an impact on the other so it wasn't a big deal). Second, he come up with a rule that none of the moneybags would be touching each other. He used this assumption to mislead the team. (Mathematically, it's a 6x6 grid, there is technically no way to arrange 10 bags so that none of them are touching).
jkjkjk15 & EM002 did a great job at deducing the moneybags and earning money for the pot.
Overall, we won $55k this round! And The Mole only got a measly $5k! We've taken the lead! HOORAH!
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There is one note of interest, Jacob_C was selected as the leader, but did absolutely nothing this challenge. Perhaps he was doing something behind the scenes that we will shortly find out about? Only time will tell...
UNTIL NEXT TIME MY MOLE HUNTERS
xoxo
Clicky
Comments
Nice summary. I'm going to enjoy reading the remainder of these, as the series unfolds.
