God's Imitator-Chapter 428: The Last Gameplay Mode

Yang Yuting continued to explain:

"As long as everyone agrees that ’it doesn’t matter which you choose,’ there is a high probability they will let down their guard.

"It’s like during a lottery draw, if the rules are completely fair, and the host and other participants have no idea which is the better choice, then people won’t think too much about it and will follow their instincts.

"Choosing the option closer to oneself is convenient and induces a subconscious sense of closeness and security.

"When not overthinking, there is a higher likelihood of choosing this way.

"That’s why I put ’100,000’ on the right hand; Dai Yifan is more likely to pick it.

"And after picking it, he will definitely swap.

"Though, in principle, it doesn’t matter which one you choose, different players have different risk preferences and tolerance levels.

"Lu Xinyi’s risk preference and tolerance are far higher than those of the ordinary players.

"So, ordinary players will experience tremendous psychological pressure when playing this game with her.

"They can’t help but worry about Lu Xinyi taking away 900,000 while they bear a 900,000 debt, which would be disastrous.

"Under this enormous risk, ’swapping the slip’ becomes a safe strategy to effectively reduce losses.

"Not swapping means possibly bearing a 900,000 debt, but swapping means the most you could have is a 9,000 debt and you might gain 900,000 instead.

"In the previous problem, Zheng Jie used a similar method to calculate expectations, and everyone quickly realized there was an issue.

"But when the environment or opponent changes slightly, most players subconsciously resort to the same thinking.

"Zheng Jie frowned: "But even knowing this, doesn’t help determine a specific strategy?"

Yang Yuting shook her head: "No, if you can understand this, then when you draw ’100,000,’ you should immediately decide: don’t swap.

"Because for this issue, you need to think from Lu Xinyi’s perspective.

"First of all, Lu Xinyi indeed gives the impression of a high-risk preference player, but can she really take on a ’900,000 debt’ level of risk?

"Obviously, even if she had that much time, would she gamble her life in such a simplistic manner in front of a ’cautious decision-maker’?

"Because a ’cautious decision-maker’ would most likely choose to swap, as we’ve analyzed.

"Lu Xinyi doesn’t mind taking risks, but the premise is always having far greater rewards surpassing the risks. But in this game, risk and rewards are roughly equivalent, and losing the gamble likely means losing everything.

"Lu Xinyi is merely a risk-preference player, not a mindless gambler; she likely values her life more than you do.

"So, the figure ’1 million’ is just you scaring yourself. It is almost impossible to appear.

"Secondly, no matter what number you draw, you must consider the possibility that ’this is what Lu Xinyi deliberately wanted you to draw.’

"Thus, by considering this comprehensively, you might guess the opponent’s intention: she deliberately gives you 100,000, creating the illusion of ’possibly having 1 million,’ and tricks you into swapping slips.

"If it’s someone like Lu Xinyi, during the whole process, there might even be some gestures, words, or expressions as hints or performances; in short, to ensure the plan gets implemented smoothly.

"So, your best choice is to withstand the psychological pressure of ’possibly losing 900,000’ and stick to not swapping.

"Then you’ve won and can net a gain of 9,000 minutes of visa time."

Everyone was reflecting seriously, seemingly imagining the scene of actually winning against Lu Xinyi.

Of course, no strategy guarantees 100% success, and those so-called strong players won’t always win; they also have the possibility of losing.

The biggest difference between them and weaker players is that they calculate the choice with the greatest win potential according to the game rules and opponent situation, make plans around this choice, and finally use various details and misinformation to make the opponent cooperate with their tricks, thus establishing a bigger win potential.

It must be said, Yang Yuting’s simulation indeed resembles the decision-making of a ’Lu Xinyi type player.’

And Yang Yuting’s breakdown isn’t a ’I predicted your prediction’ kind of recursion, but a comprehensive analysis of this type of player’s mindset, speculating on their strategy, and countering it.

If a player like Zheng Jie really encountered Lu Xinyi, and couldn’t reverse and see through Lu Xinyi’s thinking and tricks, there’s a high probability they’d get caught.

Conversely, if one can see through Lu Xinyi’s way of thinking, a player like Zheng Jie can completely pretend, show vulnerability, cooperate with the opponent’s trick, and suddenly make an unexpected move at the end to win the game.

Yang Yuting added: "Of course, if you aspire to become a player like Lu Xinyi, you can also try using such strategies to deceive when you’re in a ’defensive’ role.

"However, making the other party believe you’re a ’Lu Xinyi type player’ is the hardest step in this phase.

"If an ordinary player’s bluff fails, it could backfire severely, so this must be noticed.

"Alright, the last way to play now."

This time, Yang Yuting didn’t make the slips herself but took out two pieces of paper.

"Now, I will choose two players to face off against each other.

"You two will make slips yourself and write numbers on them.

"The specific rules are like this:

"As defenders, they need to make 5 different slips, where any one of them satisfies ’at least one of the other 4 slips is its 10 times or 1/10.’

"Considering it is a practice, we’ll simplify the rules to avoid numbers like 9000 or 90,000, or 999 and 9990, meaning only whole numbers like 1, 10, 100, 10,000, 100,000 can appear.

"After writing, each will take turns being the defender and attacker, playing against each other once.

"With an increased number of slips, the attacker can draw twice in total.

"After each draw, they can choose to swap or not.

"If swapped, the previous slip should be returned and a new one drawn, and the returned slip cannot be chosen again; if not swapped, they keep it themselves.

"After the game ends, it still calculates the total difference in profit for both sides.

"For instance, if a player, while being a defender, nets 9,000 but as an attacker nets -3,000, the final net profit is 6,000, securing victory.

"However, due to ’net profit’ issues, to avoid spirals writing numbers like ’10 million’ or even ’1 billion’ on slips, we limit the highest number on a slip to 100,000, and at most one slip can have this number.

"Those are the rules, who wants to give it a try? 𝗳𝗿𝐞𝕖𝘄𝗲𝕓𝗻𝚘𝚟𝕖𝐥.𝚌𝕠𝕞

"This time, we’ll first select two players for a demonstration, then if everyone is interested and wants to try more possibilities, you can also play in private."

Quickly, Zheng Jie and Dai Yifan raised their hands and each took a blank piece of paper for the demonstration.