One Two Many

To begin the game, players suggest strings (words, phrases, etc). Only two suggestions are accepted (the first two); they are only revealed when both suggestions are in place.

In succeeding rounds, players again suggest strings. They are trying to agree, by finding whatever string is the "obvious" combination of the two guesses from the previous round.

The referee strips leading and trailing whitespace, and compares case-insensitively. To work around other minor differences of spelling or phrasing, the game provides each player a "Yeah, those two guesses are really the same" button. If a majority pushes it, the game is over.

The game supports up to 15 players. The seat IDs are seat1 to seat15. At least two players are required to begin the game.

RPCs

Referee to player

• game.begin_initial()
  Players may begin sending suggestions for the initial two strings.
• game.begin_guessing(round, seat1, str1, seat2, str2)
  Players may begin sending guesses. The round is an integer count, which increments each round, starting with 1. (The initial round is zero.) The remaining arguments are the two guesses on the table, and who sent them.
• game.guessed(seat)
  The given seat has registered a guess. If seat is the empty string, then no seat has registered a guess. (In both cases, any previous guess mark is implicitly cancelled.)
• game.your_guess_is(str)
  Your current guess is the given string.
• game.voted_equivalent(seat, bool)
  The given seat has declared that the two guesses on the table are equivalent. (Or, if the argument is false, retract this.)
• game.win(seat1, str1, seat2, str2)
  The two given seats have won, with the given guesses.

Player to referee

• game.guess(round, str)
  Offer a guess (or a suggestion, in the initial round 0). The round must match the referee's count, as some protection against race conditions. If the string is empty, or all whitespace, the player's guess is cancelled.
• game.equivalent(bool)
  Declare that the two guesses on the table are equivalent. (Or, if the argument is false, retract this.)

Translation tokens

need_min_players

The game requires at least two occupied seats.

wrong_round

Your guess was ignored, because a new round has begun.

not_initial

You cannot end the game before the first guesses appear.

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