Rule Book - hikaruhotta/password-iOS-app GitHub Wiki

Rules and Mechanics for 1 round of play (Individual):

Rules

1. Game Setup

• Randomly generate seed word
• Generate 6 random words for each player's word bank.
• Randomly determine player order

2. Players take turns submitting a word that can be associated to the previously submitted word

   Seed: 		password
   
   Player1: 	lock
   
   Player2:        key
   
   Player3:        teeth
   
   Player1:        dentist
   

3. After a players submits a word, the other players have an opportunity to reject the new word if they do not accept the association between the current word and the newly submitted word. For example, after Player2 submitted “key” in the example above, player 3 played the word ‘teeth’ because, they might say, “key’s have teeth.” It is up to the group how strict or how loose associations are allowed to be. Majority wins on any contested word. A tie leads to the word being accepted.

Scoring

The scoring system aims to discourage players from spamming the reject button by penalizing players if they reject a word that is not in the word bank. On the other hand, the scoring system discourages players from playing unrelated word bank words by penalizing them heavily if other player's reject their word submission.

End Game Conditions

The game ends after the N rounds (specified by the host). The player with the high score at this time wins.