PLAYER PATH 01I like maps and spatial puzzles
⌁2 equilibria + pact + crisis
WILD LINKWildlife Corridor Assurance Game
Play length: 2 equilibria + pact + crisisA forest corridor crosses parcels owned by four people with different priorities. One development can break the link, yet conserving alone may leave one owner paying for everyone. Choose how to use your parcel and whose conservation promise will trigger your own, then build the pact and guarantee. Experience how credible assurance turns private risk avoidance into four-way cooperation that protects wildlife habitat.
GAME THEORY TYPEStag Hunt (Assurance Game)Cooperation and non-cooperation can both be equilibria; credible assurance changes the safer choice.
A chain of credible promises turns a divided map into a living corridor
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Start this game ▶PLAYER PATH 02I like strategy and reading moves
↗7 seasons + treaty design
FLYWAYMigratory-Bird Trust Game
Play length: 7 seasons + treaty designMigratory birds travel across several regions for seven seasons. Each region wants to avoid protection costs: developing alone brings a short-term gain, but if every region does the same, the migration fails. Each season, choose protection or development with regional partners and decide whether to retaliate against an apparent breach caused by monitoring error or keep cooperating conditionally. Experience how reputation, retaliation, and a chance to repair trust can sustain cooperation.
GAME THEORY TYPERepeated Prisoner’s DilemmaThe future, reputation, retaliation, and forgiveness can sustain cooperation.
Reputation, retaliation, and forgiveness gradually reshape a migration route
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Start this game ▶PLAYER PATH 03I like decisions and teamwork
◆1 choice × 7 phases
COOP//NATUREFood-Waste Cooperation Simulation
Play length: 1 choice × 7 phasesRetailers, producers, and delivery firms face a food-waste crisis while separately protecting stock, costs, and sales. Each can rationally avoid cooperating because helping alone may be costly, but the same choice by all creates more waste. Choose responses to each event and strengthen rules for information sharing, cost sharing, and inventory guarantees. Experience how changing payoffs can turn individually sensible choices into lasting cooperation.
GAME THEORY TYPEPrisoner’s DilemmaIndividually safe choices can hurt everyone; institutions can change the payoffs.
A fast cooperation combo where all three reactions are revealed at once
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Start this game ▶PLAYER PATH 04I like stories and mysteries
↺2 sites × 3 mornings + rule design
LOOP 20Groundwater Time Loop
Play length: 2 sites × 3 mornings + rule designIn a town where pumping groundwater first raises today’s harvest, the water table keeps falling. Farmers, companies, and a bank disagree about the cause and who should pay. Investigate two sites on each of three mornings, choose the evidence to carry forward, then set use caps, violation detection, and cost sharing. Share the causal story so the three parties can cooperate, and learn how measurement, use rights, and contracts can protect water everyone depends on.
GAME THEORY TYPECommon-Pool Resource GameThe urge to take first causes depletion; caps, rights, and measurement can repair it.
An investigative mystery where one carried memory completes the causal chain
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Start this game ▶PLAYER PATH 05I like dialogue and reading people
◎3 interviews + contract + 3 shocks
NATURE DEAL LABNature-Impact Finance Negotiation
Play length: 3 interviews + contract + 3 shocksA bank, pension fund, and operating company want nature-positive finance, but each waits because the first to tighten standards could lose clients, returns, or funding. Ask each party one candid question, decide who contributes how much, how losses are shared, and what changes during a crisis. Experience negotiation and contract design that makes participation worthwhile for each party while increasing the value they create together.
GAME THEORY TYPECooperative / Bargaining GameAlign coalition value and allocation so every party prefers to stay.
A negotiation drama that turns candid concerns into terms, counteroffers, and resilience
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