Rules

For two or more players. (I know "duel" applies to only two, but I don't know the generalised term).

Each turn, all players simultaneously choose one of the following options:

Load Pistol
Fire Pistol at [other player's name here]
Duck
Load Bazooka
Fire Bazooka at [other player's name here]

If a pistol is fired at you, you are killed unless you duck. If a bazooka is fired at you, you are killed regardless. You cannot fire a pistol unless you have loaded it once and you cannot fire a bazooka unless you have loaded it twice. If you fire either weapon, you need to load again in the same way before you can fire it again.

The last person alive is the winner. If everyone dies, the game is a draw.

Playing in person can be done like Rock, Paper, Scissors with gestures for each move. Playing on the boards can be done with text in spoiler blocks.

I'm looking for a few players to sign up right now to play at least one game. Each game should only take a few minutes and won't need any real modding.

Background (optional reading)

This is based on a game I played in (what Americans would call) elementary school, which didn't include the bazooka option. Maybe it's well known but I haven't been able to find it on Google.

The game's form is basically that of a more complicated Rock, Paper, Scissors. Broadly speaking, Ducking > Pistol, Bazooka > Ducking, Pistol > Bazooka. However, unlike RPS, each round has a "memory" of the previous round, and so the optimal strategy varies depending on the loadedness of your opponent(s)' guns. Hence, the Nash equilibrium is not obvious (though still relatively to easy to solve for two players) and I believe it has >0EV against suboptimal strategies, thus you can gain an edge by more than just trying to outlevel your opponent.

I'm not on exactly what rules are best. Maybe there should be just one weapon that you need to fire twice to kill someone ducking. Maybe you should be able to "store up" ammo. Suggestions are welcome.

Flavour-wise, I don't know a whole lot about weapons so I just picked a "weak" and a "strong" one, but I do know that you shouldn't need to load one bullet at a time with a pistol and that a bazooka is probably unnecessary powerful. Suggestions for different names for these moves would be appreciated.

If people like the general concept of an RPS-style game with memory, I like the idea of developing a more complicated variant, in which there are a number of resources and a number of ways of attacking opponents.

very nice concept

This looks interesting I'll give it a shot

in as buffy the vampire slayer

What the hell. In

Think I have seen something like this before but not played.

I will give it a go if it happens soonish.

Okay, so:

ShipItUp
filthyvermin
SirRawrsaLot
742617000027
Nichlemn

Confirmed in? We'll start now if that's the case.

lettuce gogogo

Wait are we already gogogoing?

Yes. Don't look at our spoil tags if you haven't decided yet.