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It seems to me that its a bit of a coincidence that so many of the physical relationships are natural numbers when I don't see why he couldn't have been something like $1/r^{2.3}$. If this were the nature of things I don't think we would have just developed a different numbering system that then makes these natural: say with our new system being 2.3, 4.6, etc.

Non-philosopher here, but to me this doesn't seem to address the fact that we have natural numbers that seem impossible to not invent. You start with a single base number and take multiples from there. That seems disconnected from the scaling powers of physical laws: $\propto \frac{1}{r^{1}}$, $\propto \frac{1}{r^{2}}$, $q^{2}$, etc.

@dan-klasson "Which directly doesn't apply to the U.S, but if you factor in that the U.S presidents that get elected directly represent these people, and those who don't stay in line gets assassinated. It pretty much fits the bill perfectly" Source?

Very nice! I think I might steal some of this for the actual game as well. My code is a little... messy and this is very clean. I wasn't expecting that much of a difference. Interesting. With that in mind, how do you think scoring should work? In my mind the increases should become less between 1st and 2nd. Maybe something -> 6pts, 5pts, 3pts, 0pts. So more weight is on not dying first?

@Chronocidal Awesome. I'm going to start working on this tonight.

@Chronocidal I figure it would be information pushed to the terminal and people return the number they want to add. I think the infor passed would be the history of numbers added, players remaining, and the current count

@Chronocidal I like that idea. I think the fewer players in each game the more control is granted to the player and allows for more strategy. I think that's a far better idea!

My first thought was to have have n! Games averaged. How dis you imagine the smaller games working?

@user202729 It was mostly conjecture. I always assumed there was to limited amount of control over the game to be able to develop strategies. As I was thinking it over today though, I believe there could be some interesting designs. So I think I'm going to try and get the KOTH to work.

@NotthatCharles 1. Yes the next available bot will play 2. Didn't think of that I'll edit post I suppose it should be the same format as the examples

That would be correct

@NotthatCharles Specifically on that turn, the bot will not output the numbers 9, 10, 11

If someone would be able to do that, it would be cool. I think there may be a bit to much randomness in the game for it be a true challenge though.