#game changer

[gamechangershow]

Sam's most FAVE game on Game Changer yet! 🍚

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Count the Rice - Season 8 - Dropout

It's a race to the bottom for Zach, Jiavani, Anna, Demi, Catherine, Hannah, and Ify.

[twilanore]

also can we talk about the game design of count the rice?? brilliant

the only challenges that require multiple people are at the beginning and end - at the beginning to allow the players to bounce around there for a bit before they realize they need to go down, and also at the end to ensure that a runaway player has to wait for another to catch up

count the rice itself, of course, can only be played with one player, so that players never actually have to count rice (if you had to wait for a second player at the end, then whoever got closest would win) (this is ofc not accounting for hannah pilkes)

the middle rooms are great too, because they are easy to intentionally fail, and hard to win. the spot the difference rooms are especially good, because you think you understand what it is (spot the difference between the two halves of the room), and this is seemingly confirmed when you successfully loose, but once you come back to try to win, you realize you did not actually fully understand the game. the placement of these is important, too - only players who were intentionally trying to lose got to those rooms. any higher in the sequence, and they might have had a player trying to win reach the rooms first, and then they'd realize the twist

and also the decision to split the rooms up? 2 and 3 in a separate space from 4-8, so players would assume there are only 3 until someone loses enough, subtly hiding the majority of the game from them

ugh just so many little details in the game design here are so perfect and well thought out, game changer is clearly such a labor of love

[oldschoolvillageidiot]

All my friends are having fun in other rooms at this party.

[jacquistheripper]

i think what made count the rice so awesome (if ominous) is that it harkened back to game changer’s fundamentals which is the only way to win is by learning and the only way to learn is by playing. i love the game changers where they get no instructions and it’s more puzzle based because that’s what season 1 game changer was really founded on.

[daily-dropout-screenshots]

the editors of this ep really carried ngl

[rlyehtaxidermist]

obviously it's because the show only has one budget for everything but it is funny how game changer prizes can basically be sorted into two categories, "you have done the best at volunteering for moderate public humiliation. your prize is an all expenses paid trip to a ski resort" or "you have defeated the art department's eight robot masters and the mastermind, dr. paul wilino, in brutal gladitorial combat. you have won a screwdriver kit that you will need to split three ways"

[zacsoyama]

my neurodivergent ass not knowing how to handle any compliment I’ve ever been given like