Referee: 20 Seconds left!
Oli: Both of you, use "No Action".
Brielle: "No Action"?
Greg: I'll do that.
Brielle: Then alright, I will too...
Referee:And the results of the third round are:
Round-3:
Brielle: No Action -3 (9)
Greg: No Action -2 (8)
Oli: No Action -1 (7)
Todor: No Action -2 (8)
Oli: If we really do not use our own cards, and it is not against the rules that we are not using them like that. Then somewhy we do not get our own cards
Brielle: Wait! Our own cards? These are all just white backgrounds with black text on it and they are all the same!
Greg: Maybe there's something invisible in every card that we can't see but it can identify whose card it is!
Brielle: But if they know that then why won't they deal you your card?
Greg: Maybe... That's it, I think we are close to solving what is happening!
Brielle: Are you for real!?
Greg: The reason why they won't deal you your card is because there are strict rules for the referees on how they must deal the cards!
Oli: So it is not just that simple "Okay, I can see that he sits there so I will give him his cards", but something more complicated. The question is then... On what does it depend?
Greg: It's not the person, and when I came into this room, it was one of my observations that the chairs are immovable and the nameplates are also built in the chair, you cant switch them up.
Brielle: Then what is it?
Greg: Not the person, not the chair and... it just by how the show works is not caused by the referee, then the only thing that is left...
Greg grabs the table with two hands with two different sides of its square tabletop. As Greg exerts a slight force on the table, it cracks, and then suddenly the referee interrupts him.
Referee: Stop right now! What you are about to do is against the rules!
Greg stops, his eyes widened, Brielle also in shock.
Oli: What the hell do you mean it's against the rules? You didn't mention it
Referee: Moving the table is manipulation of the playfield which is clearly against the rules. It's one of the main rules that is explained to everyone when they start the show!
Greg: Manipulates the field? So that would change something? Then this is it!
Brielle: What? What do you mean? How could a table cause such a thing?
Referee: 3 minutes left!
Greg: I think I solved it, let me explain then. What I'm saying is, that my theory was correct about who uses whose cards. If the cards are dealt depending on how the table is positioned, then it makes perfect sense! All Todor had to do was to rotate the table by 90 degrees!
Brielle: Rotate the table by 90 degrees?
Greg: In normal position, the playfield would look like this!
Greg: But if we rotate the table by 90 degrees, which we wouldn't notice because the tabletop is a square! Then this happens!:
(There should be visuals but it's not allowing any photos)
Brielle: There's ID's inside the table?
Greg: It could be anything that the referee can observe. So it does not matter where you sit, it only matters what the table "tells" to the referee. The only question is that I don't know that... How did Todor know about it?
Oli: This is the rule of how the referee deals the cards? Then it seems like it's just simply a part of the actual game.
Brielle: So what does that mean?
Oli: I think that Todor simply asked the referee about how the card dealing works.
Greg: You are right! That means we could have asked the referee as well, right?
Brielle: But why was it not told to us before?
Oli: Because this is a protocol that is enough if the referee knows, you can play this game without knowing this information!
Greg: Referee. This is how this game, this is how... Your strict rules tell you how to deal the cards?
Referee: Exactly.
Greg: So that's it!
Oli: We solved it, it seems like.
Greg: That means that... Todor when he heard the rules and they said "the cards will be dealt", he instantly thought about "How does the card dealing work?"!
Oli: So Todor is that kind of man.
Greg: We were blinded by how obvious card dealing is while it was not explained at all about how it works, we just thought that the referee gives the cards to all of us and that's it.
Oli: So what are we doing now?
Greg: Well... How very smart of you Todor, if we don't have our own cards, then we don't want to gain points, and the if one of the players are inactive, so always plays "No Action", then with playing "No action", you can't win points or get to an advantage at all.
Oli: You are right! If you want the others not to win, then you won't play "Action"
Brielle: Does that mean that we will just use "No action" till the game ends?
Greg: Exactly! That way we will die at the same time, and will become a 4-way tie game, we will all gain a point this way!
Round-4:
Brielle: No Action -3 (6)
Greg: No Action -2 (6)
Oli: No Action -1 (6)
Todor: No Action -2 (6)
Round-5:
Brielle: No Action -1 (5)
Greg: No Action -1 (5)
Oli: No Action -1 (5)
Todor: No Action -1 (5)
Round-6:
Brielle: No Action -1 (4)
Greg: No Action -1 (4)
Oli: No Action -1 (4)
Todor: No Action -1 (4)
Round-7:
Brielle: No Action -1 (3)
Greg: No Action -1 (3)
Oli: No Action -1 (3)
Todor: No Action -1 (3)
Round-8:
Brielle: No Action -1 (2)
Greg: No Action -1 (2)
Oli: No Action -1 (2)
Todor: No Action -1 (2)
Round-9:
Brielle: No Action -1 (1)
Greg: No Action -1 (1)
Oli: No Action -1 (1)
Todor: No Action -1 (1)
Round-10:
Brielle: No Action -1 (0)
Greg: No Action -1 (0)
Oli: No Action -1 (0)
Todor: No Action -1 (0)
Referee: The game has officially ended in a 4-way tie! Everyone will gain a point!
The door of the room where they played opens, their game is the last to end so they see everyone in the mainhall, and among them, Todor as well.