Four of Hearts

Four of Hearts (ハートの4, Hāto no Yon), also known as "Survey" (あんけぇと, Ankēto), is a game featured in the First Side Story of Alice in Borderland.

Players have to answer the questions and reach the top floor of an office building.

As a Hearts challenge, the game tests players' emotional resilience and psychological insight.

Overview[]

Set-Up[]

Location:
Office Building
Player Limit:
5
Time Limit:
1 minute per question
Starting Condition:
The entry deadline is 6:00pm. Once all 5 players have registered, they have to enter a window cleaning lift, equipped with a microphone, to be moved to the tenth floor of the building.

Rules[]

A question will appear on the screen. Under the question there are answers collected from a survey.
The survey data has a majority and a minority shown on a pie chart. Players have to decide whether the majority of the people surveyed gave the correct answer, or the minority.
- If a player thinks that the answer given by the majority is right, they press the top button.
- If a player thinks that the answer given by the minority of survey participants is the correct one, they press the bottom button.
It is GAME CLEAR if a player reaches Floor 20.
It is GAME OVER if a player reaches Floor 0.

Details[]

Certain additional rules are not revealed at the start, so the players have to figure them out during the game.

Answering correctly with a majority moves the lift up 🔼 one floor.
Answering correctly with a minority moves the lift up 🔼 two floors.
Answering incorrectly with a majority moves the lift down 🔽 one floor and gives the player a high current electrical shock.
Answering incorrectly with a minority results in GAME OVER.
Tricking another player into picking the wrong answer grants bonus five floors up 🔼 (in addition to the floors moved up when answering correctly).

The questions start off extremely simple but progressively become harder and harder, eventually becoming absurd. However, starting from the tenth question, the survey data is omitted, and the questions, instead of obscure trivia, are about the office building which is the venue for the game. Essentially, it becomes a guessing game with exact 50/50 odds. However, the waiting room, where all players enter and register, has a selection of pamphlets containing all the answers to the 10th question and onward.

Solution[]

If all 5 players continuously answer majority for all the questions they are unsure about, then bring the pamphlet along for questions following the tenth, all players will be able to clear the game without any guessing.

The game is designed to force players into either making impossible choices, such as choosing the minority right after seeing someone else die due to the same choice, or tricking other players into pressing a wrong button in order to gain advantage. Despite the name, the game does not attempt to test players' intelligence or knowledge, since the questions get more and more random as the game progresses, which the participants notice quite quickly.

Game Result[]

The correct answer to each question is in bold. The game flow explanation, which involves the unnamed players, can be found via this link.

Player 1 is the woman with long blond hair in a dress.
Player 2 is the man in the beanie wearing glasses.
Player 3 is the woman with short black hair who studied French.

Question 1[]

"Asked of 100 housewives in Asakusa, how many teaspoons are in a tablespoon?"

Majority

83%:
3 tsp

Minority

17%:
4 tsp

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