Minigame: Prisoner's Dilemma

**(NOTE: MASSIVE SPOILERS FOR DANGANRONPA: CORRUPTED HOPE PAST THIS POINT. READ WITH CAUTION.)**

Minigame: Prisoners Dilemma is a mini game constructed by White Collar and Monohebi for each round of the St. Esther Killing Game.

There have currently been four rounds of this mini game with there being a fifth unused round.

## Rules

For each round of Prisoners Dilemma, a pair will be pitted against each other. Each member of said pair must choose between **Trust** and **Distrust**. Then the results are produced based on the choices that the two members of the pair have chosen.

To participate, there are sixteen rooms known as **Voting Chambers** located in the Auditorium. When the Minigame begins, participants are given a few minutes to discuss their course of action before going inside a Voting Chamber and choosing between Trust and Distrust on the Voting Tablet provided.

Depending on the round, there are different outcomes to voting either Trust or Distrust. Generally speaking, should the pair *both* choose Trust, they won’t receive a motive, but should the pair *both* choose Distrust then both will receive the motive.

Where the rules change is if one person votes Trust and another votes Distrust, the person who voted Distrust will receive an Advantage during the killing game… while the Person who voted Trust will receive a Disadvantage.

## Rounds

There have been four rounds of Prisoners Dilemma over the course of the story, all with different outcomes. There is also one unused round of Prisoners Dilemma, meaning there have been five mini games made in total.

### Round 1 (Chapter 1: Silence Of the Sacrificial Lamb)

In round 1, prisoners were offered a chance to receive a motive video of a person they held dear.

If a pair both voted Trust, they wouldn’t receive the motive video. If a pair both voted Distrust, they both would receive the motive video.

If a pair had one person vote Trust and another person vote Distrust, then the person who voted Trust would get a disadvantage and a motive video, while the person who voted Distrust would get an advantage for the game and no motive video.

* Pair A: Abigail [DISTRUST] vs. Titus [TRUST]
* Pair B: Carter [TRUST] vs. Ina [DISTRUST]
* Pair C: Haruto [DISTRUST] vs. Mimi [TRUST]
* Pair D: Holland [DISTRUST] vs. Jared [DISTRUST]
* Pair E: Kane [TRUST] vs. Zuri [TRUST]
* Pair F: Maggie [TRUST] vs. Barracuda [TRUST]
* Pair G: Cassandra [DISTRUST] vs. Mayu [DISTRUST]
* Pair H: Arthur [DISTRUST] vs. Yuumi [TRUST]

**Advantages:** Abigail, Arthur, Haruto, Ina

**Disadvantages:** Carter, Mimi, Titus, Yuumi

### Round 2 (Chapter 2: The Solace of Hate and Envy)

In round 2, prisoners were offered a chance to receive a motive video of a person they hated.

If a pair both voted Trust, they wouldn’t receive the motive video. If a pair both voted Distrust, they both would receive the motive video.

If a pair had one person vote Trust and another person vote Distrust, then the person who voted Trust would get a disadvantage and a motive video, while the person who voted Distrust would get an advantage for the game and no motive video.

* Pair A: Abigail [DISTRUST] vs. Mayu [DISTRUST]
* Pair B: Arthur [DISTRUST] vs. Jared [DISTRUST]
* Pair C: Carter [TRUST] vs. Barracuda [TRUST]
* Pair D: Haruto [DISTRUST] vs. Ina [TRUST]
* Pair E: Holland [TRUST] vs. Zuri [TRUST]
* Pair F: Maggie [DISTRUST] vs. Cassandra [DISTRUST]
* Pair G: Mimi [TRUST] vs. Yuumi [DISTRUST]

**Advantages:** Haruto, Yuumi

**Disadvantages:** Mimi, Ina

### Round 3 (Chapter 3: Sums for our Fallen Grace)

In round 3, a bounty of $500,000 would be placed on each prisoner’s head, totaling to about $6,000,000 in total.

If a pair both voted Trust, their respective bounties would go down to $0, and Monohebi and White Collar would receive the money. If a pair both voted Distrust, their $500,000 bounty wouldn’t change.

If a pair had one person vote Trust and another person vote Distrust, then the person who voted Trust would get their bounty increased to $1,000,000 while the person who voted Distrust would get their bounty decreased to $0.

It should be noted that these prices would remain throughout the entire game.

* Pair A: Abigail (0) [TRUST] vs. Haruto (0) [TRUST]
* Pair B: Arthur (1,000,000) [TRUST] vs. Ina (0) [DISTRUST]
* Pair C: Barracuda (0) [DISTRUST] vs. Maggie (1,000,000) [TRUST]
* Pair D: Carter (0) [DISTRUST] vs. Zuri (1,000,000) [TRUST]
* Pair E: Cassandra (500,000) [DISTRUST] vs. Jared (500,000) [DISTRUST]
* Pair F: Holland (1,000,000) [TRUST] vs. Mimi (0) [DISTRUST]

**Advantages:** Abigail, Barracuda, Carter, Haruto, Ina, Mimi

**Disadvantages:** Arthur, Holland, Maggie, Zuri, Jared, Cassandra

### Round 4 (Chapter 4: Sins of the Forsaken)

In round 4, roles of **Traitor** and **Innocent** will be assigned to all the remaining prisoners. This mini game would be played every day until a body is discovered.

This is the only round where the pairings got to pick each other. For each pairing, should they vote to Trust each other, they both got to see whether the other person was an Innocent or a Traitor. If they both vote to Distrust each other they get no information.

Should one person in the pairing choose Distrust while another choose Trust, only the Distruster would get the information *and* a choice of one of the previous three Advantages. Whatever they choose would determine the corresponding Disadvantage the Truster gets.

In this game there was more then one Traitor. If an Innocent kills a Traitor, they go free. If a Traitor kills an Innocent, they go free. If an Innocent and a Traitor kills anyone on the 'same side', a Prison Trial will start.

Attendance was optional after the first round. Should a prisoner not attend the consecutive games, their vote would automatically choose Trust.

The mini game was played for 4 days.

##### Day 1

* Pair A: Abigail and Mimi [TRUST] vs. Haruto [TRUST]
* Pair B: Arthur [TRUST] vs Ina [TRUST]
* Pair C: Cassandra [DISTRUST] vs Jared [TRUST]
* Pair D: Holland [TRUST] vs Zuri [TRUST]

**Advantages:** Cassandra

**Disadvantages:** Jared

##### Day 2

* Pair A: Arthur [DISTRUST] vs Abigail [TRUST] (Absent)
* Pair B: Cassandra [DISTRUST] vs Ina [DISTRUST]
* Pair C: Haruto [TRUST] (Absent) vs Mimi [TRUST]
* Pair D: Holland and Zuri [TRUST] vs Jared [TRUST]

**Advantages:** Arthur

**Disadvantages:** Abigail

##### Day 3

* Pair A: Abigail and Haruto [TRUST] vs. Jared [TRUST]
* Pair B: Arthur [DISTRUST] vs Cassandra [DISTRUST]
* Pair C: Holland [TRUST] vs Ina [TRUST]
* Pair D: Mimi [TRUST] vs Zuri [TRUST]

**Advantages:** None

**Disadvantages:** None

##### Day 4

* Pair A: Abigail [TRUST] vs. Zuri [TRUST]
* Pair B: Arthur and Ina [DISTRUST] vs. Jared [TRUST]
* Pair C: Cassandra [DISTRUST] vs. Haruto [DISTRUST]
* Pair D: Holland [TRUST] vs. Mimi [TRUST]

**Advantages:** Arthur, Ina

**Disadvantages:** Jared

### Round 5 (Chapter 5: Saviour Of the Damned)

A fifth round of Prisoners Dilemma was prepared by White Collar before Monohebi changed the motive of the chapter. It is unknown what this round would’ve focused on.

It currently is the only round that hasn’t been played yet.

## Advantages/Disadvantages

#### Advantages For Each Round

* Round 1: **eHandbook Advantage**. You can now access any room with a locked active keypad using your eHandbook. This will include Ultimate Cells as well.
* Round 2: **Nighttime Advantage**. You can now explore the facility during the Nighttime curfew. Any punishments enforced by Rule #7 will be null and void against the user of this Advantage.
* Round 3: **Bounty Advantage**. Bounty of $0 over your head during the remainder of the killing game.
* Round 4: Choice of any previous advantage

#### Disadvantages For Each Round

* Round 1:  **Loved One Disadvantage**. If no one dies within the next 24 hours, your loved one(s) will die.
* Round 2: **Hated One Disadvantage**. If you win a prison trial, instead of everyone being executed you get to switch places with the one you hate.
* Round 3: **Bounty Disadvantage**. Bounty of $1,000,000 over your head during the remainder of the killing game.
* Round 4: Forced with one of the previous Disadvantages

## Trivia

* Cassandra Mura and Mayu Mashiro are the two prisoners who have consistently voted DISTRUST in every round.
* Kanenoshin Amao and Titus Erskine are the only prisoners to play only *one* round of Prisoner's Dilemma, with both of them voting TRUST for their respective pairs.
* Kanenoshin Amao and Mayu Mashiro are the only prisoners in the story to have never received an Advantage or Disadvantage from the Prisoners Dilemma game.
* Kanenoshin Amao is the only prisoner to never receive contents such as a motive video from the Prisoners Dilemma game.
* Maggie LaDroubi and Barracuda are the only pairing to repeat a round together after their initial pairing in round 1 (excluding round 4 where prisoners got to choose their pairings)
* Zuri Auraline is the only prisoner to have consistently voted TRUST in every round.
* Arthur Kingston, Haruto Walker, and Ina Hamamura currently hold the *highest* number of **Advantages** in the game, being able to access all rooms with a locked active keypad, being able to explore the facility at Nighttime, and also having no bounty.
* Jared Caertas currently holds the *highest* number of **Disadvantages** in the game, as his loved ones were threatened, he was given the option to switch places with a person he hates, and also having a bounty of $500,000 on his head.
* Jared Caertas and Cassandra Mura are the only two prisoners in round 4 of Prisoner’s Dilemma to never partner up with another student for a 2v1 situation.
* Round five of Prisoners Dilemma is currently the only round that hasn’t been played or revealed yet, leading to an unknown motive.