🦈 Oh, Dead Sea! Oh, Dead Sea!

What is Oh, Dead Sea!?

In Oh, Dead Sea!, exactly one of the 100 sailors on board is destined for the shark, and on each turn you decide how many sailors jump into the sea. If that sailor is among the ones you called, the shark shows up and you get the penalty.

It looks like pure luck, but there’s a choice. Do you call one at a time, carefully, or send ten at once and take a big risk? Calling fewer is safer, but it pushes the risk to the next players, and the odds climb as the crew shrinks.

How to play

• Set the number of players and their names, then set sail.
• At the start, one of the 100 sailors is secretly chosen. Nobody knows which one.
• On your turn, choose 1 to 10 sailors to jump and press the button.
• If the chosen sailor is in that group, the shark appears and you get the penalty.

You can see the shark odds

The top of the screen shows, live, your chance of meeting the shark for the number you pick. Calling one sailor out of 100 is 1%, but calling five out of the last 10 is 50%. Because the number is right in front of you, you end up calling them anyway, knowing the risk.

When fewer than 20 sailors are left, the crew on deck visibly starts to panic. The odds soar and the tension on screen tightens with them.

No seat is luckier than another

We simulated 20,000 games: the penalty rate per player differed by less than 1 percentage point. Going first doesn’t help or hurt.

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