How to play
Four rules.
🎪 The Court Quiz
Free and with no sign-up. Played by commenting on each round’s video; those who fall in no round receive the honorary title of Royal Courtier.
Your standing in the game, at a glance
With an account, My account shows a list with your current standing in the game: what you commented in each round, the right faction, the one that fell and whether you are still alive for the title of Royal Courtier. No need to look for it on social media. This is what it looks like:
Free, with your email and no passwords. Then verify your handle with your QZ code so we can link your comments.
Choose your faction
Every day at 6 PM Her Majesty Queen Dasmina publishes a social intuition challenge.18:00 Madrid · 17:00 Lisbon · 18:00 AndorraSimilar to this one:
You have until Her Majesty publishes the closing comment, from 14:00 CET the following day, whenever she pleases. Your last comment before that moment counts. If a social network goes down or filters your comment, that round is lost on that network: nothing is at stake here and there is nothing to claim.
Choose one of the 4 factions and defend it with an argument. Without an argument, your vote does not count.
All these forms are valid — the faction does not need to be the first word:
The faction has to be a whole word, not part of a longer one: “greenhouse”, “reddish” or “green-apple” do not count. These are exactly the words that work: RED, REDS · ORANGE, ORANGES · GREEN, GREENS · BLUE, BLUES, in upper case, lower case or mixed, and their Spanish equivalents (rojo, azul, verde, naranja and their plurals).
The last-vote rule
You may comment —or vote on the web— as many times as you like. Only your last valid vote before Her Majesty’s closing comment counts.
This lets you switch faction if other contestants’ arguments convince you. Debate is part of the game.
The Grace Measure
Her Majesty may pardon whoever fell in a round: from one person to many, always a group with something in common —a whole faction, the fastest to comment, those who missed by the most, those who fell because of a technical fault…—. She decides the reason and it is written into the round record.
Two phases
The Court Quiz has two phases with different elimination rules: the Initial Phase, with the Shield of the Masses, and the Final Phase, the last rounds —between 3 and 5, harder and without Shield—; exactly how many is not announced in advance, but every round shows its phase from the moment it is published, so nobody votes without knowing which rule applies.
Elimination here is collective and partial. When results are revealed, normally only the wrong faction with the fewest votes falls. A wrong faction with zero votes does not count: the next wrong faction with the fewest votes falls, and if no wrong faction has any votes nobody falls. If two or more wrong factions tie on the fewest votes, the round number decides: in an even-numbered round all the tied factions fall and in an odd-numbered round they are all spared and nobody falls. If three factions chose wrongly and one of them had very few votes, that group falls while the others survive, sheltered by the power of the social mass.
The important nuance: the Shield does not always protect you. Queen Dasmina can decide to eliminate every faction that got it wrong in a round —not just the smallest one. That is the Queen's Wrath, and it comes with a strict rule: it must be declared before voting closes, with votes still moving and without knowing how the split will end up. The time of the declaration is recorded; it is not announced, so it is only known when the result is published. And there is one thing that can unleash it: someone organising votes to manipulate the Shield. Anyone who coordinates to survive while getting it wrong risks that very move being what eliminates them.
“You have come far sheltering in the masses like sheep. From today, the Shield of the Masses is destroyed. To the pit.”
In the last rounds the Shield of the Masses disappears. Any miss eliminates directly, regardless of how many people missed with you. It does not matter whether you were majority or minority. And they are harder: they are designed to decide.
In the Court Quiz these rounds are played like any other, by commenting, with the same rule: you are right or you fall. Those already out may keep commenting, and their vote counts for the Shield of the Masses, but it does not bring them back, unless Her Majesty includes them in a Pardon.
Here the one who knows most doesn't win
dasmina is not a general knowledge game. There is nothing to memorise: what is rewarded is reading people. ChatGPT knows everything… and here that is worth little.
No studying needed. Nothing to memorise. You just need to be human and have spent years observing the world around you.
If your intuition fails, there's no trick. You can't look up the answer. No data can save you.
“The human wins because they read their community's behaviour, intuition and collective perception. Areas completely blind to any machine.”
THE GOLDEN RULE OF dasmina
A game lasts 2 weeks
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