Presidential aspirations anyone?
Posted by Lance on 24 Aug 2007 at 9:11 pm | Tagged as: Law, Lance's Page, Domestic Politics
From Daniel Drezner:
Alex Tabarrok proposes So You Think You Can Be President? One proposed segment:
Game Theory: Candidates compete in a game of Diplomacy. I would also include several ringers - say Robin Hanson, Bryan Caplan and Salma Hayek. Why these three? Robin is cold, calculating and merciless - make a logical mistake and he will make you pay. Bryan is crafty and experienced. And Salma? I couldn’t refuse her anything but presidents should be made of stronger stuff so we need a test.
Diplomacy and Salma. Oh, that’s hot.
I could have posted straight from Alex, but he provided the link to the picture, so a link was deserved. I also am in complete agreement with Daniel’s final statement. I love Diplomacy.
Pejman has a few additional gaming suggestions:
And we don’t have to just play Diplomacy. Let’s see how the candidates do in chess, Go or even Settlers of Catan.
All good ideas, especially the Settlers of Catan, though could we even try something along the lines of Third Reich? And Salma is wearing that particular blouse, though that means I would most undoubtedly not be a good ringer myself. I would lose bigtime.
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Settlers of Catan? Ha! Make it multiplayer Civilization 4. And make sure there’s at least one warmonger in the mix.
Good choice, but my son is the expert there. I actually have a slew of old board wargames from Avalon Hill, SSI, GDW, etc I would like to see them do well at. Of course, if Salma is their wearing that blouse sans bra I am down with it, even if they are playing Candyland.