Net 7, group of 10
- Input
- 12 direitas - 5 esquerdas = 7
- Expected output
- 3 lugares para o outro lado
Receives from whoever sits 3 seats to the right.
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how to play the left right game
The rule fits in a sentence, but the end of the game depends on a calculation almost nobody does. Understanding the net of rights and lefts avoids the worst possible outcome, which is everyone ending with their own gift.
Receives from whoever sits 3 seats to the right.
The tool warns and offers a fix.
A multiple of 8: closed circle.
Halfway around the circle.
Each person receives from the right-hand neighbor.
Everyone sits in a circle with a wrapped gift while one person reads a story, passing the gift every time they hear right or left. On right the gift goes to the person on the right; on left it goes to the person on the left. When the story ends, everyone unwraps the gift in their hands. The more cues in the story, the more the gifts travel.
Everyone sits in a circle with a wrapped gift. One person reads a story, and at each right everyone passes the gift to the right, at each left to the left. When the story ends, each person keeps the gift in their hands and opens it.
Because the rights minus the lefts is a multiple of the player count. Each gift traveled an exact number of laps around the circle and stopped where it began. Change one sentence to add or remove a cue and the net stops being a multiple.
To keep the circle lively, aim for a cue every 14 words or fewer. The tool stories follow that: 17 to 23 cues in the short version and 37 to 55 in the long one. The final result depends on the net, not on the total.
The most common ones: reading without showing the text, playing standing up, using a special word that makes everyone swap with the person across, and replacing the story with an action die. The tool offers the 6-sided and 12-sided dice with editable actions.
At the end, everyone holds the gift from the person 1 seat to the left.
When printing, turn off Headers and footers in the print dialog.
On Christmas Eve, Granny Joan's house glowed with lights, one string on the left window and another on the right window. Uncle Ben showed up first, came in through the door on the right and hung their coat on the hook on the left. Little Max ran down the hall in a sock on the left foot and a slipper on the right foot, because they got dressed in a hurry. Aunt Dee carried in the potato dish and could not decide whether it belonged to the left of the turkey or to the right of the beans. In the end the potatoes went right, the beans went left, and the turkey stayed proudly in the middle.
At midnight Granny Joan clapped twice and sent everyone to the living room, the grown-ups to the right of the tree and the kids to the left. Under the tree sat a big gift on the left, a small gift on the right and one wrapped in a hurry in the back. Uncle Ben ran their right hand over the bow, then their left, and announced that the box felt exactly like a pair of socks. That was when Little Max shouted that the gift on the right was for a cousin and the one on the left was for an aunt.
Aunt Dee opened the first one with their right hand while holding their cocoa in their left, and made the face of a person who just got socks. The socks were green on the right foot and red on the left foot, and nobody could tell if it was fashion or a mistake. Granny Joan raised a finger, looked left, looked right and swore the gift in the middle was theirs, again. Uncle Ben leaned to the right, stretched their arm to the left and fished out a package that had slid under the sofa. On the left side of the table the cousins whispered; on the right side the uncles placed bets. Who would end up with the gift on the right? And who would get the one on the left? Nobody knew, and everybody pretended not to care.
Granny Joan laughed, crossed their right leg over their left and said the game only counts if everybody follows the story. Then Uncle Ben cleared their throat, hugged the gift with their right arm, then their left, and said real Christmas starts when you pass along what you hold.
And so, laughing, everyone traded gifts: one step to the left and one step to the right. When the clock struck one in the morning, each person held someone else's gift, and the very last pass went one step to the right.
Every whole word right or left counts (rights too), in any capitalization and in any sense. Alright, copyright and leftovers do not count; right-hand counts once.