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Winning or losing a game

What it means when players win or loser the game

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Written by Anders Lund
Updated over 8 months ago

With most Playable games, a player can either win the game or lose the game. This is called the game's "winner logic".

Some games, like Prediction, Poll, and Product Selector, don't have losers. And other games, like Swipe It and Personality Test, rarely use the loser functionality.

Winner logic in skill games

In a skill game, you can define what a player has to do in order to win the game. This can be, for example:

  • collect 100 points in a drop game in under 45 seconds

  • match all 6 pairs of cards in a memory game in under 10 moves

  • find the hidden item in a shell game on the first try

If the player successfully completes the challenge, they will win the game.

Winner logic in knowledge games

In a knowledge game, you can define what a player has to do in order to win the game. This can be, for example:

  • answer at least 8 out of 10 questions correctly in a quiz

  • correctly identify the images in a guess the picture game in under 30 seconds

  • place the images in the correct order in a priority puzzle

If the player successfully completes the challenge, they will win the game.

**Note: In both skills and knowledge games, game settings in the platform will allow you to make the game more or less challenging, but you - as game design - cannot control if players win or lose the game. Players' abilities are what will determine if the game is lost or won.

Winner logic in luck games

In a Luck game, you can either user winner pool or instant win as your winner logic. With winner pool, you set a percentage of players who will win the game. With instant win, your winner logic is controlled by your prizes: players will only win the game if there is a prize available.

**Note: In luck games you - as the game designer - can control who wins the game through the winner logic.

Winner Logic in Luck Games

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The winner and loser pages

By default, when you create a game the winner page is visible to game winners and the loser page is visible to game losers through the visibility condition.

But neither the page nor the visibility condition control the game outcome which is, instead, set under game settings.

If you delete the loser page of your game, it doesn't mean nobody will lose the game. It means they will see a blank page. If you don't want to have any game losers, you need to control that under game settings or prizes.

For more information on the visibility condition have a look at these articles.

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