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Greedy Dragons

A simple but strategic card-stacking game.

Description:

It's time to divvy up the dragons' hoard, but no one wants to share! Can you trick your fellow dragons into leaving you with the most treasure?

Overlap cards and build lairs to collect all the gems — and leave your opponents empty-handed! Play one-on-one or team up with other dragons to maximize your loot. Add the magic ring to the hoard to raise the stakes even higher!

--description from the publisher

Time to play: # of players: Recommended Age:
clock indicating 15 minutes 2 to 6 players recommended Recommended for ages 8 and up
15 to 30 minutes 2 to 6 8+
Complexity: Player dynamic: Skill:
A head with a puzzle inside piece half filled with blue to indicate medium complexity rating                  3 figures connected to gears indicating alliance circle of arrows around a gear to indicate strategy
2.00 / 5 Alliance

Strategy, Card Game

 

Greedy Dragons Additional Resources

Suggested Use:

Community Building

6 figures joined by a circle to indicate Community Building

Readings:

A casual role for right temporoparietal junction in random pairing repeated holdup game by Wang Xiaoqin, Su Hao, Liu Qin, Pan Jiali, and Zhang Xiaomin

Abstract: Holdup problem is a common problem in specific investment transactions of noncontractible relationship, which is affected by human trust behavior, cooperation behavior and altruistic behavior. Recent neurological studies have shown that the right temporoparietal junction (rTPJ) plays an important role in social cognition and prosocial decision making. The aim of this study is to modulate the excitability of brain regions rTPJ by transcranial direct current stimulation and to explore the effects of rTPJ on participants’ offer and the minimum willingness to accept (MWTA) behaviors in the random pairing repeated holdup game. Our results showed that compared with sham stimulation, cathodal stimulation significantly increased the offer and anodal stimulation significantly decreased the MWTA of participants. One possible explanation is that the inhibition of the rTPJ makes it harder for participants to distinguish between their own benefits and those of others, and participants may rely on simple equality rules to solve this problem, resulting in higher offer. The activation of the rTPJ improves the participants’ perspective-taking, allowing the participants to change their strategy through the perspective of others, thus reducing the loss of investment by lowering the MWTA.

Keywords: holdup game, right temporoparietal junction, transcranial direct current stimulation, trust game, ultimatum game

Please refer to the books and articles listed on the Board Game: Home page for general readings regarding board game play and psychology.

Link to the Library Catalog

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