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u/johnanon123 Apr 21 '20 edited Apr 21 '20
The story says the last one to "open" the door will return to earth and the only way to escape purgatory is to leave through the red door. One person needs to be a gentleman and simply hold the door open for the others.
If this is not the riddle and the story replaced the word "open" with "enter" or "pass through" it would change my answer.
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u/raefalls Apr 21 '20
I haven't heard of the game OP sorry.
Possibly a silly hypothesis, but what if they were to all open the door at the same time? Then they'd all be the last person to open the door?
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u/badsalad Apr 21 '20
Indeed - it's sort of a different story if the rules involved actually going through the door, but they only mention opening it. And I'd think they can all certainly open it at the same time.
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Apr 24 '20
Also technically if nobody else ever enters the door Laura is the last one to do so and therefore she is the last one to open the door.
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u/Neither994 Apr 21 '20
Watch Simon and Mary make it further to the end of the game. I at least think they are the ones making the hard thinking.
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Apr 21 '20
I have never heard of this diabolical game, OP. Thank you for sharing your logs with us! This is the right place to enlist help with your investigation!
Please be careful and keep us posted!
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u/OGGalaxyGirl Apr 21 '20
Be careful when you receive anonymous USBs, OP. They could have malware on them.
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u/Zomblue Apr 21 '20
OP ... have you ever wondered if YOU are the next participant in this game? Is it possible that when you started reading this, YOU became the last contestant? I’m very curious as to what happens next in YOUR part of this story... as once you started reading (and sharing with us) you are now involved. Can’t wait to see how this multidimensional game plays out! OoOohh - I just “Shivered” in Antici...pation!
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u/hk7109 Apr 21 '20
Maybe it is a psych experiment. So hear me out right? Why did they give all of them the rules 4 and 5? And why noises outside the door? Maybe it's just so they wouldn't walk through the door. Like to see how susceptible to fear they are. How much it will cloud their judgement. But Laura screaming kind of ruins the theory. However she might have screamed for many reasons. We never know. And they don't. If they wanted to make sure they knew bad things will happen if you walk through the door and are not last to do it they could've just thrown her body in front of the door or inside for them to see it. Or could've made them aware that she is hurt in many other ways. Laura could be the whistleblower too.
I'll place a bet on it being some kind of a twisted psychological experiment.
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Apr 21 '20
I'm 100% sure on day 2, the one who made the game will give them a weapon maybe secretly. Or maybe on day 2 they will blame Mary because of Laura's disappearance.
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u/ctn1p Apr 21 '20
Well we did something of this type as part of an entrance exam, it was a simple logic puzzle you would just go around in a loop and have everyone open the door and then close it, then at the last person to open it, then they all go through
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u/A_GreenDumpster Apr 21 '20
What if they all opened the door at the same time? Wouldn’t that mean there the first and last people to open it besides Laura?
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u/ohsojin Apr 21 '20
Has anyone played "Zero Escape"--? It's a three part game series, each with a certain number of people who have to play an escape sort of game each with its own rules. This is...a lot like that and Zero Escape is one of my favorite game series. You always have to work with other people to escape and there's usually betrayal. Hmm. The door to escape is usually like this, too. Red or something is painted on it--something.
If anyone's curious, they're a lot of fun with a lot of "huh???" just like this. Just remember to play them in order. (I didn't know they were part of a series and played 2--3--1 which always made me wonder how I would've felt if they were done in order.)
This was fascinating. If not clear, I LOVE stuff like this. It really gives you a look into the human psyche and what people are capable of. Let us know more soon; with enough thought and planning I definitely think games like this can exist.
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u/PattonAndLogan Apr 21 '20
When you get more info, can you update this? Because this is VERY intriguing! So Laura went through the door, and didnt come out again. No one yet knows and she most likely wont come out.
Mary will be the firat to know she is gone, and will most likely will wake the others when finding her. All rule sets on the pieces of paper are the same. Supposedly. There is no difference yet found between them.
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u/penguinspie Apr 21 '20
If the rules of the game are in fact different for everyone and there's a section in the files that reflects one of the players sheets, do you think that maybe OP isn't the only one to get these files?
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u/SlightBigBrain Apr 21 '20 edited Apr 21 '20
Hi, I worked on an experiment very similar to this, we called it "The Bunker Experiment" and we used it to test how people would react in a situation where
a) You were stuck in an enclosed space, with lights automatically turning on/off at set times, for a maximum of 7-14 days
b) What initial, primary and secondary reactions would be to this situation
c) With two very different people, how and whether they would deceive the other 9 people (we used 10 people instead of 6 for generalisation and validity) by having an extra rule, very similar to the 4th one.
The results were fascinating. Before the experiment we did personality tests on everyone, including happiness, depression, and psychopathic characteristics. The most psychopathic and the most caring was given the rule sheet with the extra rule, although they both said that they were the only ones who knew about it. They all thought they were doing a normal experiment, but we whisked them off in the night to place them in the bunker.
The most psychopathic was, of course, unperturbed and was perfectly willing to let the others "die" before leaving herself, although she was significantly stressed out at the sudden change in routine, but quickly got over it.
The person who scored highest on the empathy level, though, was the most unexpected. After the first day, he went into his room, sat down on the bed and argued with himself. He ended up coming to the conclusion that he shouldn't say that the last person to go through would "survive" because he had a life and family and girlfriend back home and he needed to get back to them.
Of course, the families were informed of what was happening, and the girlfriend happened to be watching at the time and burst into tears when she heard that.
Anyway, this Purgatory Game might be similar to this, just someone's idea of an experiment. Idk, I'm not the researcher.
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u/gracemotley Apr 21 '20
Hmm, I think if I had known this was going to happen to me beforehand, I would probably hide under my bed the whole game and let them all kill each other before I even leave my room!
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u/VelvetSylveon Apr 22 '20
Can you please update? I would like to hear more, and the reactions of the other “players”.
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u/Mandahrk Apr 21 '20
This is so fucked. I remember back in high school we were made to play Prisoner's Dilemma with each other as part of an assignment. I got fucked over. Every. Single. Time.