What Gamer Type are You?

1. What is your LEAST important factor when choosing a game to play?

• Rules / Mechanics
• Fellow Participants
• Competitiveness
• Theme / Flavor
• Time
• Complexity

2. You're teaching your young niece a new game. Which lesson do you hope to impart the most?

• Critical Thinking
• Creativity
• Fun
• Healthy Competition
• Cooperation
• Self-Reliance

3. Your friend brings over a brand new game for this week's game night and the box really impresses you. What do you like most about it?

• It has a nice clear objective posted.
• For 5-20 players! We can all play at once!
• Nothing. The box doesn't matter as long as the game is good.
• The cleverly written description on the back.
• It appears to be a fairly short, fast-paced game.
• All the different races, classes, and buildings laid out on the front.

4. You're planning for a big evening party at your house. Where is your focus for it during the hours beforehand?

• Cleaning up the place and hiding the breakables.
• Shopping to make sure you'll have enough food and drink for the guests.
• Whatever extra steps are necessary to make sure it's memorable.
• Prep..ar..a..tion? None needed. These things just work themselves out.
• Making a great playlist.
• Sending out last minute invitations and directions.

5. You are playing a somewhat complex game for the first time with more experienced players. How will you approach the game?

• Use the political power of conversation to offset in my gaps of understanding.
• Find a way of acquiring resources while trying to upset the least amount of people.
• Make an educated guess on the best tactic to compete with the experienced players.
• Just wing it.
• Base your tactics off what feels most right within the game's theme.
• Try to figure out a basic strategy and see if it works.

6. The zombie apocalypse is upon us! What's your preferred method of survival?

• Defend your base and command targeted missions out into the affected area.
• You've been waiting for this day. Time to head out and start wracking up the kill count.
• Gather your friends together and hope you all make it. Somehow.
• Luck.
• You've watched movies on this. Grab your cricket bat and head for the nearest pub.
• Stock up on the essentials and try to cope with the situation.

7. What is your opinion on the amount of chance in a game?

• I thrive on it. Luck is the great equalizer.
• A little luck helps to enhance the overall experience.
• A necessary evil, but I prefer to avoid having all of my effort come down to a simple dice roll.
• Minimally. Skill should trump luck whenever possible.
• Lots of luck means I can focus more on the players than the rules.
• I'm fine with it as long as it doesn't determine everything I can do.

8. Your friend is explaining the rules to a new board game, and it's taking forever. What are you doing while he talks?

• Building towers out of your pieces.
• Glancing through all the text / imagery on the board.
• Interrupting him every two minutes to ask questions.
• Determing who to go after first.
• Playing close attention and thinking about how mechanics interact.
• Texting your other friend under the table.

9. If you could pick one of these game shows to be on, which would it be?

• Wheel of Fortune
• The Price is Right
• Deal or No Deal
• Family Feud
• Jeopardy
• Who Wants to Be A Millionaire

10. Your game was supposed to last two hours. It's currently going on hour number four with no sign of stopping. What do you do?

• Continue to acquire resources and build your troops. With enough forces, you could launch a final attack to end it all.
• You're not sure how you've lasted this long, but you keep going. Now's the time to get really creative.
• What? Oh. Um...you stopped paying full attention about 3.5 hours ago.
• You burnt through all your strategies awhile ago. Now it's time for an all-out assault with the few pieces you have left.
• You don't complain. Supposedly, your elaborate turns and complex moves are the reason you're running so late to begin with.
• If the game is developing in a fun way, you want to see where it ends up next.

11. You and your colleagues / classmates have been assigned a paper that's due in a week. How do you approach the task?

• Find a collaborator to talk about your plans.
• Dig into the pile of references you already have picked out.
• Collect yourself and your materials, analyze the information you have, and start mapping a mental outline.
• Once you're comfortable with your resources, you find yourself a nice quiet corner and hammer it all out.
• You give yourself a day for research, a day for organizing, and a day to write it.
• Grab a blank page and just start writing.

12. It's a boring day at work. What are you doing to keep yourself from falling asleep?

• Daydreaming.
• Re-organizing office supplies.
• Clicking your pen. Repeatedly.
• Chatting with your friends.
• Catching up on a bunch of little tasks that slipped through the cracks.
• Planning ahead. There might be something you can do now to save you some time when you're busy again.

13. Which of the following game types seems the most appealing to you?

• One with multiple paths to victory
• One with a rich story background
• One with high player interactions
• One with a good degree of chance
• One with a variety of tactics
• One with clear goals

14. Of those listed, what was your favorite childhood game?

• Red Rover
• Tag
• Hide and Seek
• Red Light, Green Light
• Duck, Duck Goose
• Simon Says

15. It's 1869 and you're arriving in a bustling frontier town from back east. What sort of job do you seek out?

• I didn't come for a job. My intent is to find a nice piece of land and build a new home for myself.
• As a jack of all trades, I'll go for whatever occupation the town is in the most need for.
• A job on the railroad to keep from being in any one place too long.
• Banking is ideal for me in this new location.
• Taverns are always fun, regardless of the era.
• Whichever one pays me the most.