[elicash]

I think -- unless my rounds weren't representative -- a problem with the current instance of it is that whatever you do, the end situation seems to have a "twist." Needs more randomization otherwise it's too easy to game. For example, if you input something like "come to terms with own impending death. However, in a twist of fate.." then you win. (Or at least, I did.)

Add some double-twists, some non-twists, and things that are a bit more out-there and it'd help.

This is great overall. Very clever. I imagine this crowd here is more likely to try to game the prompts to win rather than have fun coming up with survival techniques.

[PeterisP]

The prompts and responses strongly reminded me of the Tales of the Arabian Nights board game, where the key game mechanic is revealing a paragraph of some situation challenging the protagonist, making a choice on which course of action to pursue, and reading the outcome of that (often depending on certain attributes of the character); and an interesting pattern in the game that when circumstances are really desperate and the rational actions clearly won't succeed, a relevant choice is to pray to Allah for help or guidance, which then does give a solution (just as it does qutie a few of the 1001 nights stories), - and the same automagically applies in this game, asking for divine intervention (and asserting that you do get one) is one way that consistently works.

[notahacker]

I haven't tried anything as explicit as simply stating "in a twist of fate", but surely the point is to find some sort of twist on the prompt.

I engineered my way out of being "trapped in an elevator with a fire" by stating that the fire wasn't plugged in

But I liked it when in needed to make a hole in one to avoid dying and the AI foiled my attempt to "cheat the challenge" (it's words) by moving the tee position to the edge of the hole by killing me with a deus ex machina

[stavros]

You're right, I always entered "I resign to my fate" and I kept winning, as some twist kept me alive.