Circles

[Zandor]

This is a little one-entry-game. I will limit it to 10 players. So please pm me your entry and leave a little message here.

Here are the rules:
There is a square with the corners on (0,0), (1000,0), (1000,1000) and (0, 1000). Every player pm me a circle, i. e. the centerpoint and the radius.
The circle can be anywhere, it doesn't have to be completely in the square. (only integers are allowed for your entries)
A point belongs to a player if
-the point is in the square
-the point is in the circle and
-the point does not belong to another player with a smaller radius

example for 4 players:


The player with the biggest area wins (yellow in the example)

[Victoria Silverwolf]

Sounds like this could get tricky for you to calculate!

I'll send in something just to see what happens.
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[Courk]

Sent.

[Quailman]

Sent. And welcome to the GL.

Your profile says you're from Austria. Do you know Mackay?

[ralphmerridew]

http://blog.badangel.org.uk/?p=548

[Zandor]

@Quailman + ralphmerridew:

I am from Austria, not Australia
(Austria is the little neighbour of germany)

@Victoria:

I will let the computer sort the colors by popularity, so I cannot give you the percentages, only the order

[Mr Stoofer]

/sent

[LordKinbote]

The first game where someone can and will lose, even though they have infinite points.

[Zag]

in

[Ctuchik]

Cool game, I'm in.
Now where do I place that circle ...

[Dented Ford]

Nice to see you, and nice to have another simple one-post game. /sent.

[Zandor]

two places left

[Talzor]

I'll take a spot

[groza528]

/in

[Zandor]

Result:



From first to last:



(Ctuchik and groza528 made the same entry, so I put them together)

Congratulations to Chuck

[Amb]

Does Ctuchik/Grozas circle realllly have less area? It sure looks bigger?

[Chuck]

Too late. All decisions are final.

[Zandor]

Yeah, Chuck's circle is bigger. The area of a background always seems bigger than it is.

[Ctuchik]

From all the billions of possible circles groza and I chose the same
That's what I call telepathy!

Anyway, third place isn't bad and I like it how we tricked DentedFord by choosing a circle that is just a little smaller than one that would fill the whole square

[Zag]

What size was Chuck's circle? I was considering making my just a tiny bit smaller than 250 radius, but I had already sent in my note.

[Chuck]

X coordinate = 666
Y coordinate = 710
Radius = 248

[Zag]

Brilliant! grats. I would only have changed to 249, anyway.

[Chuck]

I don't understand the purpose of the really small circles. If you choose a circle that encloses less than 10% of the square then you can't win unless everyone goes for small circles. If all or most of the square is in one or more circles then someone is going to own at least 10%, and probably more.

[Amb]

This was an excellent game. Id love to try the next one. Pity positions were all taken before I saw the thread.

[Chuck]

Next time we want tetrahedrons in a torus.

[Amb]

Dont forget we want it to be 4 dimensional.

[groza528]

I feel like this game would be good with MANY players, because I think it would tend to shift more toward smaller circles. To a point, of course.

[Victoria Silverwolf]