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Jan 7, 2024·How to play·15:07·0·Watch on YouTube

Paradoxical Play Guide Video (Tech Deck)

Benjamin Cheung

Benjamin Cheung

Watch “Paradoxical Play Guide Video (Tech Deck),” a how-to-play guide for Paradoxical from Benjamin Cheung on BoardGameVideo.

Description provided by Benjamin Cheung on YouTube:

This is an in-depth play guide video for Paradoxical that goes into details for set up, game overview & objective, and playing the game. Paradoxes are situations that have inexplicable or contradictory aspects. They are captivating logical mysteries. They can be situations that seem contradictory but are nonetheless true. Parrondo’s Paradox is one of the four key paradoxes in game theory. It was discovered by Juan Parrondo in 1996 describing a paradoxical situation where a combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. This Tech Deck game exemplifies Parrondo’s Paradox from game theory. The players uses cards from decks with losing strategies to deduce a winning combination, to discover a Parrondo Paradox. Paradoxical is the 16th Tech Deck game. Check out the other games which include Tech Grid Poker, Tech City, Tech Exchange, Tech Chess, Gears of Industry, Elevator Pitch, Cardle, Peer-to-Peer, Cardoku, Newsworthy, Card Barrage, Prisoner’s Trilemma, Tricks of the Trade and Host a Heist Dinner Party. Find Tech Deck resources, videos, and rules you can download at my website cheung.interzone.com or BoardGameGeek. Tech Deck intro and play guide videos for the other Tech Deck games are on my youtube channel.

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Paradoxical

Paradoxical

2024·Benjamin Cheung

2 - 3 players
30 min

About Paradoxical, from BoardGameGeek:

Paradoxes are situations that have inexplicable or contradictory aspects. They are captivating logical mysteries. They can be situations that seem contradictory but are nonetheless true. Parrondo's paradox is one of the four key paradoxes in game theory. It was discovered by Juan Parrondo in 1996 describing a paradoxical situation where a combination of losing strategies becomes a winning strategy. This Tech Deck game exemplifies Parrondo's Paradox. The players juggles cards from losing decks to find a winning combination, to discover a paradox. Paradoxical is the embodiment of a game theory mystery called Parrondo's Paradox. In Paradoxical, players race to discover two Parrondo Paradoxes. Clever use of Tech Deck card effects can give a player the narrow advantage that they need to reveal a Parrondo Paradox. Put on your thinking cap and start the race! OBJECTIVE – The objective of Paradoxical is to discover two paradoxes. GAME PLAY – Each turn, players try to discover a paradox from two decks of cards that individually produce losing outcomes; but when combined allows for the possibility of a winning strategy. GAME END AND WINNING – The player who uncovers two paradoxes wins. THEME – Paradoxes in Game Theory -description from the designer

Designer

Benjamin Cheung

Artist

Benjamin Cheung

Publisher

Self-published

Categories

Abstract StrategyMath & Numbers

Mechanics

DeductionVariable Player Powers
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