Why would people not like Goose Goose Duck?


Answer: the core mechanism is built on the premise of acting/lying, which is not a prevalent skill in today’s population. Unlike Texas Hold’em, where a player only needs to lie to play well can also enjoy it without lying, GGD and WW require all players to have the capacity to lie. If one participant is a bad liar, the whole game is ruined. This is because in its essence, GGD is a game where a set of players guard a secret, and the rest of players uncover that secret. To make this process fun and intellectually stimulating, we first need to remove the more obvious secret-revealing signals like voice tones and facial expressions. What’s worse, it only takes 1 player to leak the secret for everyone, which imposes an incredibly high entry barrier