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Minority Rule?
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What?
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I've never heard of that before.
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Allow me to explain.
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First, you will be presented
with a binary question.
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Each player will cast a vote
of either "yes" or "no" to answer.
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Once the votes are tallied,
the answer that receives fewer votes wins.
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The winners will move on to the next vote.
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The losers will be eliminated
from the game,
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at which point they must return
their 100 million yen and leave.
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In the event of a tie,
the vote will be repeated.
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Voting will then continue in this manner
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until either one or two players remain.
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At that juncture, there can
no longer be a minority,
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so the game will conclude.
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The prize money will be
paid out from the initial pool:
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2.1 billion in the event of one winner,
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and one billion each in the event of two.
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One billion each?
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It's fixed!
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There are plants from the
LGT Office in the crowd,
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and they're gonna rig it
so the rest of us can't win!
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Right?!
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How could we possibly do that?
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If this were "Majority Rule,"
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we could ensure victory by having
over half of the participants be plants.
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But this is "Minority Rule."
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There is no way for us to rig that.
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What are you after?
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What's the purpose of running this game?
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We wish to choose the true Liar King.
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That is all.
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Minority Rule
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In this world, some are willing to pay
vast sums of money for "genius liars."
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The Liar Game is funded by such people.
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I cannot give their names,
but the LGT Office does not cheat.
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We have no reason to.
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Now, I'm sure you're all hungry.
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We have prepared dinner for you.
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A sumptuous banquet
was rolled out before us.
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But the game to come would leave
nearly all of us 100 million in debt.
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Hardly a situation to whet the appetite.
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The only people eating as
if nothing were wrong
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were Akiyama-san and one other...
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A man in sunglasses who
wore the number 15.
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You're not going to eat?
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I don't know how you can
in these circumstances...
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The battle ahead of us won't be easy.
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You need to keep up your strength.
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The battle ahead of us...
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That reminds me!
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How did you get in here, Akiyama-san?
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You weren't invited, were you?
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I could ask you a similar question.
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I told you to ignore this,
so why are you here?
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W-Well...
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I came here to stop you,
but I was too late.
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By the time I arrived,
you were already inside.
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I wandered around for a while,
considering my options,
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and then I ran into a woman.
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What's wrong?
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I... I don't know what to do.
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Are you a Liar Game participant?
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Y-Yes...
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She told me she'd stolen
the entire 100 million yen
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from her opponent in the first round.
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She didn't go into particulars,
but she said she was racked with guilt
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and had come to return the entire
sum to the tournament office.
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She's said as much to the agent
who came to greet her,
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before giving him a check for
100 million yen and dropping out...
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Or so she thought.
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"So she thought"?
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She didn't actually drop out,
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because the agent who
took her check was fake.
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In reality, he was another
participant in the game.
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She didn't realize this until a real
official explained the situation.
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We all wear these masks.
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Anyone who entered the
mansion earlier was a player.
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It was already too late.
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In the blink of an eye,
she'd lost her chance to drop out.
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So I offered to fight in her place
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on the condition that I would
take both the prize and the liability.
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The office accepts anyone as a participant
so long as they have an invitation.
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Hence...
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Michiko Takata
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Your name...
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So even though I came here to stop you,
I wound up drawn into the game myself.
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I-I'm so sorry.
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Now that we're here,
we'll just have to win and get out.
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You got that?
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I was happy to see him,
but more than anything...
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I was relieved.
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We will now showcase
a rehearsal for the game.
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Please, come this way.
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I will once again explain
the rules of the game.
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First, a questioner
will be chosen via lottery.
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Number 18, if you please.
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M-Me?
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You may ask anything at all.
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However, the question you pick
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must be answerable
with either "yes" or "no."
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Now, come up to the stage.
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This is but practice,
so you've nothing to fear.
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W-Well, then...
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A-Are you a woman?
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There. We have our question.
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"Are you a woman?"
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Please submit your answers using
the slips we handed out earlier.
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Each slip contains your player number
and either "yes" or "no."
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If you wish to vote in the affirmative,
please place your "yes" slip in the box.
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In order to prevent cheating,
you will not be writing your answers.
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This is to stop players from voting
in anyone else's name.
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After a question is posed,
you will be given time to think.
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Precisely six hours.
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Six whole hours?
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Why so long?
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You may vote immediately if you wish,
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or you may wait until
just before the time limit.
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Should you fail to vote within six hours,
however, you will be disqualified.
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Caution is advised.
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This round is merely a rehearsal,
so the time limit will be ten minutes.
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Now, begin.
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Which should I do? I'm a woman...
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But this is Minority Rule.
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Um...
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There are only six women
here, including me.
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Fantastic! I'm in the minority!
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This might be easier than I thought.
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Time is up. We shall now tally the votes.
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Number 5: "Yes."
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Number 11: "No."
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Number 19: "Yes."
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The votes were counted monotonously...
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But I was shocked by the result.
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In the end, fifteen voted
"yes" and seven "no."
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In other words, the answer of
"I am a man" was the minority.
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How did men end up in the minority?
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You voted that you were
a man, didn't you?
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I voted "woman."
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I mean, there are obviously more men,
so I thought I'd get ahead of it...
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The object of the game is
to try to be in the minority.
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The accuracy of your answer is irrelevant.
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This is how the Liar Game works.
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The question posed by the asker
is a mere formality.
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What matters is getting
yourself into the minority.
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How well can you fool others
into joining the majority?
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Minority Rule is about strategy—about
feeling out your opponent's intentions.
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That is why you are given
six hours before the vote.
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This game has incredible depth.
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If you read others and strategize
perfectly, you can secure a vote of 21-1.
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It is possible to win the game
in a single round of voting.
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The critical factor to seizing
control of the game...
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is time!
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So much that it feels like too much!
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The one who can best control time
will be the winner of Minority Rule!
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It is inevitable.
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This now concludes our rehearsal.
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E-Excuse me.
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Won't we be able to go home today?
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The real game begins tomorrow.
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Two rounds will be held per day.
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We must ask that you all stay the night.
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Your stay here will be all-expenses-paid,
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so please make yourselves comfortable.
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However, should any of you feel
you absolutely must leave,
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we will not stop you.
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You are free to do so.
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There was no way anyone was leaving.
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He said the game wouldn't start
officially until the next day,
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but we'd already been given
our 100 million yen.
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In other words, the game
was already in progress.
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Anyone who left would be
judged as having forfeited
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and saddled with a debt
of 100 million yen.
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Kanzaki-sama, this is your room.
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It's so fancy...
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We will fetch you one hour
before the game begins.
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Make yourself at home.
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What do I do?
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Is there a clear way
to win at Minority Rule?
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The one who can best control time
will be the winner of Minority Rule!
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So it's about how we use our time?
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Spend six hours finding out whether
each player is voting yes or no
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I could spend my six hours finding out
whether each player's voting yes or no!
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No, I can't do that.
They'd trick me for sure.
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What should I do? What should I do?
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Stay by the voting box and peek at the votes
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I could stay by the voting box
and peek at their votes!
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No, there's no way that would work...
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I know!
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Gather allies to create a majority
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I can gather allies and create a majority!
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No, this is Minority Rule...
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You can't win unless
you're in the minority.
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I don't know what to do!
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What do I do?
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Am I... going to lose?
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No, no, no!
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Someone help me!
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Someone, help me! Akiyama-san!
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Help me!
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Akiyama-san!
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It's me! It's Nao!
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Are you there?! Akiyama-san!
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Where are you?!
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I ran all through the hotel
looking for Akiyama-san.
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And then, I stumbled upon...
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where many of the players had gathered.
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Perhaps like me, they were
unable to contain their anxiety.
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Akiyama-san!
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I can't think of a way to win this game!
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At this rate, I...
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Quit crying.
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If you want to survive,
the first rule is not to cry.
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The second is to know your enemy.
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Know your enemy?
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There are fourteen players
in this lobby right now.
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Interact with as many of them as you can.
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Learn their personalities
and circumstances.
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That's where you should start.
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Everyone there was behaving differently.
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Some were talking. Some stuck
to the wall, observing others.
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Some ignored me when
I tried to talk to them,
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while others spoke to me with abandon.
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Fumio Matsubara, age 57
Ironworks Manager
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I run a small factory.
It's deep in debt.
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We were genuinely
considering family suicide
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when I received the Liar Game invitation.
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I won 20 million in the first round and
used it to pay off over half of my debt.
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But then came the second round,
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and they said I'd need to pay
ten million to drop out...
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I'd already spent the money
paying back my debt!
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How was I supposed to come up with more?
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Takayoshi Miura, age 25
Part-Timer
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I won just by stealing two
of those million-yen stacks.
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You didn't want to drop out?
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Never even crossed my mind.
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I figured the second round
would be easy money, too.
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But can you believe this bullshit game?
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A hundred million in debt if we blow it?
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They fleeced us for sure.
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Hey, whaddya think happens
if we lose here?
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I mean, I don't really know...
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This org is shady as hell, man.
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You just know they've got human
trafficking connections.
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They're gonna sell us!
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You're young and pretty,
so you'd fetch good money, I bet.
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O-Oh my goodness!
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How did it go?
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Most of the people here ended up
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in the Liar Game due to money problems.
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I see.
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And most of them won
their first-round game with ease,
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so they thought they could win
the second just as easily.
254
00:16:00,820 --> 00:16:06,010
No one was expecting the second-round
game to leave almost all of us
255
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100 million yen in debt.
256
00:16:09,040 --> 00:16:10,530
Good work.
257
00:16:10,530 --> 00:16:13,360
You can get some rest
and prepare for tomorrow.
258
00:16:15,070 --> 00:16:17,330
Um, I...
259
00:16:18,590 --> 00:16:20,010
Am I going to be sold?
260
00:16:20,480 --> 00:16:22,520
Will I be sold to some other country,
261
00:16:22,960 --> 00:16:25,930
never to see my father again?
262
00:16:26,390 --> 00:16:29,720
Quit crying. Tears won't solve anything.
263
00:16:29,720 --> 00:16:30,650
But...
264
00:16:31,330 --> 00:16:34,160
Don't worry. You're not going to lose.
265
00:16:34,930 --> 00:16:38,030
There's a foolproof strategy
to win this game.
266
00:16:38,540 --> 00:16:41,780
A foolproof strategy? What is it?!
267
00:16:42,120 --> 00:16:44,930
We can't talk here. Let's go to my room.
268
00:16:51,600 --> 00:16:54,680
What would you count
as "winning" this game?
269
00:16:54,680 --> 00:16:58,480
You survive to the end
and get the 2.1 billion, right?
270
00:16:58,480 --> 00:17:02,880
But if two people remain,
you only win half of that.
271
00:17:02,880 --> 00:17:04,230
Would that be losing?
272
00:17:04,230 --> 00:17:07,690
That's still a huge victory!
You still get a billion yen!
273
00:17:07,690 --> 00:17:12,200
So what if we dropped that all
the way down to forty million?
274
00:17:13,250 --> 00:17:17,090
Down to forty million?
That's still a lot of money.
275
00:17:17,090 --> 00:17:18,780
It'd still be a big win.
276
00:17:18,780 --> 00:17:23,200
If they'd let me drop out,
I wouldn't even ask for a single yen.
277
00:17:23,590 --> 00:17:25,090
I'll get straight to the point.
278
00:17:25,430 --> 00:17:29,920
My foolproof strategy won't win us
100 million, let alone a billion.
279
00:17:30,280 --> 00:17:33,080
But 40 million, I can guarantee.
280
00:17:33,080 --> 00:17:35,330
Is that really possible?
281
00:17:35,600 --> 00:17:38,360
Yes. We'll form a team.
282
00:17:38,360 --> 00:17:41,060
I thought about that myself.
283
00:17:41,060 --> 00:17:43,860
But the minority has power in this game.
284
00:17:43,860 --> 00:17:46,610
You can't win by building a team.
285
00:17:47,070 --> 00:17:49,730
I'm not talking about forming a majority.
286
00:17:50,640 --> 00:17:53,370
I'm talking about using a team
to make minorities.
287
00:17:53,370 --> 00:17:55,540
A team to make minorities?
288
00:17:55,540 --> 00:17:58,420
First, we'll need a team of eight people.
289
00:17:58,420 --> 00:18:02,340
Then we'll need them all to act
in a prescribed manner.
290
00:18:03,040 --> 00:18:06,180
We start the Minority Rule
game with 22 players.
291
00:18:06,590 --> 00:18:11,620
In the first round, four from our team
will vote yes and four will vote no.
292
00:18:12,530 --> 00:18:16,340
There's no way to know how
the other fourteen will vote,
293
00:18:17,220 --> 00:18:20,990
but what would the turnout be in
the case of the closest possible vote?
294
00:18:20,990 --> 00:18:22,770
Um...
295
00:18:23,110 --> 00:18:25,300
If they split evenly into sevens,
296
00:18:25,300 --> 00:18:27,170
we'd have to redo the vote,
297
00:18:27,600 --> 00:18:32,180
so six against eight would be
the closest possible scenario.
298
00:18:32,180 --> 00:18:33,280
Correct.
299
00:18:33,840 --> 00:18:38,800
Of the ten that remain,
four will be members of our team.
300
00:18:38,800 --> 00:18:43,540
In the next vote, we'll once again
split up evenly, this time in pairs.
301
00:18:44,040 --> 00:18:46,790
What's the closest vote there?
302
00:18:46,790 --> 00:18:49,030
There'd be six people left,
303
00:18:49,030 --> 00:18:50,760
so two against four.
304
00:18:50,760 --> 00:18:51,850
Correct.
305
00:18:52,340 --> 00:18:55,510
The following round, we'll have
one player each vote yes and no.
306
00:18:55,510 --> 00:18:56,880
What happens then?
307
00:18:56,880 --> 00:18:59,710
If the rest split up,
they'd have to revote...
308
00:19:00,140 --> 00:19:03,890
So to be final, it would
have to be zero against two.
309
00:19:05,700 --> 00:19:06,810
We'd win!
310
00:19:07,480 --> 00:19:11,060
Someone on our team would win for sure!
311
00:19:11,560 --> 00:19:17,490
The final winner will pay half
of the 2.1 billion to drop out,
312
00:19:17,490 --> 00:19:19,450
leaving them with 1.05 billion.
313
00:19:19,850 --> 00:19:22,750
After paying back the buy-in for
their seven eliminated teammates,
314
00:19:22,750 --> 00:19:25,100
they'd have 350 million remaining.
315
00:19:26,370 --> 00:19:28,710
And if that were split
evenly among all eight?
316
00:19:28,710 --> 00:19:35,330
Let's see... That'd be 43.75 million each?
317
00:19:35,640 --> 00:19:36,710
What?!
318
00:19:36,710 --> 00:19:40,470
You could win forty million
yen and still drop out!
319
00:19:40,470 --> 00:19:42,820
That's amazing! It's just amazing!
320
00:19:42,820 --> 00:19:45,820
It really is foolproof!
You're amazing, Akiyama-san!
321
00:19:45,820 --> 00:19:46,710
Settle down.
322
00:19:47,240 --> 00:19:50,320
The plan still isn't without its issues.
323
00:19:51,310 --> 00:19:54,970
For instance, there's how
I ended up here in the first place.
324
00:19:55,710 --> 00:19:59,900
The fact that a player stole
100 million yen from someone?
325
00:19:59,900 --> 00:20:03,240
Yes. Let's call the culprit "X."
326
00:20:03,880 --> 00:20:07,250
We must distinguish X
from the other players.
327
00:20:07,660 --> 00:20:12,820
What makes them a danger is that they
have that check for 100 million yen.
328
00:20:13,270 --> 00:20:17,180
Anyone who loses here lands
themselves 100 million in debt.
329
00:20:18,080 --> 00:20:21,370
But X could pay that off with their check.
330
00:20:21,790 --> 00:20:26,130
In other words, they're the one
who doesn't have to be afraid of losing.
331
00:20:27,370 --> 00:20:30,800
My plan requires eight people
who will vote in an agreed-upon way
332
00:20:30,800 --> 00:20:34,490
and who will split the prize
with the team if they make it.
333
00:20:34,490 --> 00:20:36,890
There is no room for betrayal.
334
00:20:37,710 --> 00:20:39,370
Therefore, no matter what happens,
335
00:20:39,370 --> 00:20:42,160
we cannot allow X to join our team.
336
00:20:42,160 --> 00:20:45,450
But what is this "X" person even like?
337
00:20:45,450 --> 00:20:49,840
The victim said it happened so fast,
she didn't remember a thing.
338
00:20:50,480 --> 00:20:54,390
Only that it was a young man.
339
00:20:54,910 --> 00:20:58,750
And there are so many young men here...
340
00:21:00,400 --> 00:21:02,160
Wait, but that's good!
341
00:21:02,160 --> 00:21:04,980
Akiyama-san, we can make a team!
342
00:21:04,980 --> 00:21:07,430
One that definitely won't have X in it!
343
00:21:07,730 --> 00:21:09,980
There are five women here besides me!
344
00:21:09,980 --> 00:21:12,680
We can form a team with them!
345
00:21:12,680 --> 00:21:16,430
That's five women,
plus us for a total of seven.
346
00:21:16,430 --> 00:21:17,940
We're one person short.
347
00:21:17,940 --> 00:21:19,190
That's okay!
348
00:21:19,450 --> 00:21:21,310
There's the man with the factory!
349
00:21:21,690 --> 00:21:25,240
He's obviously not a young man!
350
00:21:25,240 --> 00:21:28,200
That makes eight! We have our team!
351
00:21:28,200 --> 00:21:30,120
Well, true enough.
352
00:21:30,120 --> 00:21:33,750
I'll go back to the lobby
and talk to them!
353
00:21:33,750 --> 00:21:34,890
Hey, wait a minute!
354
00:21:35,200 --> 00:21:37,960
One Hour Later
355
00:21:37,970 --> 00:21:40,380
Akiyama-san, I've brought everyone!
356
00:21:40,380 --> 00:21:42,280
All six of them!
357
00:21:44,570 --> 00:21:47,540
Are you serious? You actually
got them all to come?
358
00:21:47,810 --> 00:21:53,940
Well, she did cry and grovel and whine,
"I'll die if you don't come!"
359
00:21:54,340 --> 00:21:57,980
You'll die? You cried and groveled?
360
00:21:57,980 --> 00:22:01,430
I mean, this is no time to worry
about appearances, right?
361
00:22:01,730 --> 00:22:02,710
Right.
362
00:22:03,080 --> 00:22:06,410
We don't have time to hesitate.
363
00:22:07,010 --> 00:22:09,250
We'll have to proceed with this team.
364
00:22:10,720 --> 00:22:13,520
All right. Let's execute the plan.
365
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000
Next Time
366
00:23:45,000 --> 00:23:50,000
Alliance