[stefs]

pedantic nitpicking: "People often want to aim for the biggest, most obvious target, and hit it smack in the bull’s eye. Of course with everybody else aiming there as well that makes it very hard to hit."

this makes no sense. the analogy doesn't really work, because no matter how many people are aiming, the difficulty to hit the bullseye is always the same.

[pbhjpbhj]

The idea is probably that unless you're first, there is less target area as it is crowded out with others shots -- image to illustrate https://c8.alamy.com/comp/c375hy/bulls-eye-three-archery-arr...

[stefs]

well, it does work if interpreted that way, but i think it's not very elegant. something like "smaller slices of cake" would work better, or having to divide a jackpot between a higher number of players.

[rocqua]

I think there is an implicit contest to be closest to center of the bulls-eye. So you want less competition.