{"id":3599,"date":"2026-02-05T21:02:29","date_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/?p=3599"},"modified":"2026-02-05T21:02:30","modified_gmt":"2026-02-06T02:02:30","slug":"game-mechanics-blog-reflection","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/2026\/02\/game-mechanics-blog-reflection\/","title":{"rendered":"Game Mechanics Blog reflection"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">In class we played the game \u201cCan\u2019t Stop\u201d. I would say the hardest part about the game is that it heavily depends on luck, but also whoever goes first has a better advantage. The goal of the game is to get 3 game pieces to the end of the board before everyone else. Players can place down 3 pieces on a lane after rolling certain numbers and can move them forward every time you can make a combination of those numbers. Players keep rolling until they choose to stop or they fail to get a number that matches a lane you&#8217;re in and then all their pieces are removed from play. It has the mechanics of dice rolling and competition.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I&#8217;m not exactly sure what leadership was seen in this game, but if I were to say what I believe was leadership is that one member took the role to read the instructions and explain them to the other players. I guess another form of leadership would be knowing when to assess risks and when to play it safe. In the game you can see how risky other players are playing and determine if you should play as risky.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\">I don\u2019t have much to say about my gameplay experience because with 4 players, if you are last you have very low odds of winning. The player that went second claimed the rows 5,7,10 which are very common dice rolls to get, and by the time he ended his turn he had claimed 2 lanes. When I went I had 4,8, and I forgot the last but didn\u2019t matter I wiped out. The 2nd plate won when it got to his turn so I only got to play one round. I think it&#8217;s an interesting idea but it doesn\u2019t feel as fun as a 4 play game as it would be more as a 2 player game.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p class=\"wp-block-paragraph\"><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In class we played the game \u201cCan\u2019t Stop\u201d. I would say the hardest part about the game is that it heavily depends on luck, but [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":9525,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_bbp_topic_count":0,"_bbp_reply_count":0,"_bbp_total_topic_count":0,"_bbp_total_reply_count":0,"_bbp_voice_count":0,"_bbp_anonymous_reply_count":0,"_bbp_topic_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_reply_count_hidden":0,"_bbp_forum_subforum_count":0,"_s2mail":"yes","footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[51,85,30,24,21],"class_list":["post-3599","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-class-review","tag-cant-stop","tag-game-mechanics","tag-game-of-the-week","tag-gotw","tag-reflection"],"aioseo_notices":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/9525"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3599"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3599\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3599"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3599"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/sites.miamioh.edu\/tabletop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3599"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}