Ehn. For kids who will EVER accept this as fair, you’re putting too much thought into politics. If the kids are this manipulable, they’ll probably accept your authority in the one-shot case as well.
Also, more iterations gives them more time to realize that you’re cheating (by shifts in how to count syllables) or that the game is fully deterministic (and you’re cheating by deciding who to start with).
This is only usable for such low-stakes cases where the participants don’t mind that it’s not fair. And in those cases, don’t waste time on pointless complexity. Of course, if this is part of the entertainment, I reverse that advice—choose the single-elimination method to extend the duration of the tension of not knowing.
Ehn. For kids who will EVER accept this as fair, you’re putting too much thought into politics. If the kids are this manipulable, they’ll probably accept your authority in the one-shot case as well.
Also, more iterations gives them more time to realize that you’re cheating (by shifts in how to count syllables) or that the game is fully deterministic (and you’re cheating by deciding who to start with).
This is only usable for such low-stakes cases where the participants don’t mind that it’s not fair. And in those cases, don’t waste time on pointless complexity. Of course, if this is part of the entertainment, I reverse that advice—choose the single-elimination method to extend the duration of the tension of not knowing.