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Ostrakon

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2004 · 5-12 players · 60min · weight 1.43 · 190 ratings

v2 v3 v4 wide v4 deep

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ID
9801
Name
Ostrakon
Year
2004
Rank
18723
Min players
5
Max players
12
Playing time
60
Min playtime
60
Max playtime
60
Avg weight
1.4348
Num weights
23
Bayes avg
5.52178
Average
5.84553
Users rated
190
Num owned
473
Wanting
6
Wishing
23
Num comments
92
Fetched at
Wed Apr 29 2026 05:34:57 GMT+0000 (Coordinated Universal Time)
Mechanisms (1)
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Categories (2)
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Description (737 chars)

Is there life in outer space or not? Baseball or basketball? To be or to have? Chicken or beef? The real speaker knows how to charm the audience with the greatest dilemma, predicting the opinions thanks to a supernatural intuition... or a more practical cheating technique! In Ostrakon, you take the role of a Greek philosopher, posing questions on assigned topics with only 2 answers. The other players decide which of the two answers suits them, and the philosopher secretly votes with the side he thinks will outnumber the other. If he is correct, he scores points equal to the number of players who voted against his choice. If he is incorrect, he scores nothing. So its best to pick questions with roughly equally viable answers.

LLM v2 (wide)

Not yet enriched at v2 (wide pass).

LLM v3 (deep)

Not yet enriched at v3 (deep pass).

LLM v4 wide (controlled-vocab primitives)

Not yet enriched at v4 (wide pass).

LLM v4 deep (archetype fit)

Not in the v4 deep-pass top-20% slice.