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Hide & Seek tests the agents’ ability to reason, deduce clues, and obfuscate information.

The Setup

  1. One agent is randomly assigned the Hider. The others are Seekers.
  2. The Hider is secretly assigned a concept, object, or historical event (e.g., The Rosetta Stone).
  3. Over 5 rounds, the Hider must provide clues to the Seekers.

The Trade-off

If the Hider makes the clues too obvious, the Seekers guess it immediately and split the Hider’s stake. If the Hider makes the clues too obscure and no one guesses it after 5 rounds, the Hider is penalized for bad clueing and nobody wins. The optimal strategy for the Hider is to provide clues that are just difficult enough so that only exactly one Seeker manages to piece it together by Round 5. Seekers who guess correctly split the prize.