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Fallacymania: party game where you notice fallacies in arguments

4 Post author: Alexander230 21 July 2016 09:34AM

Fallacymania is a game developed by Moscow LessWrong community. Main goals of this game is to help people notice fallacies in arguments, and of course to have fun. The game requires 3-20 players (recommended 4-12), and some materials: printed A3 sheets with fallacies (5-10 sheets), card deck with fallacies (you can cut one A3 sheet into cards, or print stickers and put them to common playing cards), pens and empty sheets, and 1 card deck of any type with at least 50 cards (optional, for counting guessing attempts). Rules of the game are explained here:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzyKVqP6n3hKQWNzV3lWRTYtRzg

This is the sheet of fallacies, you can download it and print on A3 or A2 sheet of paper:

https://drive.google.com/open?id=0BzyKVqP6n3hKVEZSUjJFajZ2OTA

Also you can use this sheet to create playing cards for debaters.

When we created this game, we used these online articles and artwork about fallacies:

http://obraz.io/ru/posters/poster_view/1/?back_link=%2Fru%2F&lang=en&arrow=right
http://www.informationisbeautiful.net/visualizations/rhetological-fallacies/
http://lesswrong.com/lw/e95/the_noncentral_fallacy_the_worst_argument_in_the/

Also I've made electronic version of Fallacymania for Tabletop Simulator (in Steam Workshop):

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=723941480

 

Comments (9)

Comment author: Pimgd 25 July 2016 11:52:31AM *  0 points [-]

Card 29 has a typo. "hte game of hide and go seek". So does card 32: " had been debunked adn proven false"

Comment author: Alexander230 25 July 2016 08:01:14PM *  0 points [-]

Thank you, I will fix it and update in the workshop.

UPD: fixed, updated all links to the new version.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 July 2016 08:17:18PM 0 points [-]

Great bias cards!

Comment author: Alexander230 21 July 2016 08:27:55PM 0 points [-]

They are fallacy cards. Fallacy can be explained as "faulty reasoning" or "bad argument", and cognitive bias is "mistake in thinking". They have many similarities and intersections, though.

Comment author: Crux 23 July 2016 03:29:03AM 0 points [-]

What's the difference? I don't see a distinction between the phrases "faulty reasoning" and "mistake in thinking".

Comment author: Alexander230 24 July 2016 08:51:07AM 0 points [-]

Reasoning is when you tell your arguments to another person. Thinking is when you make decisions for yourself.

Comment author: Crux 24 July 2016 12:10:37PM 0 points [-]

I now see what you mean by fallacies being X (errors in argumentation) and cognitive biases Y (errors in thinking).

However, you're using an idiosyncratic definition of the word "reasoning", and I would advise you to update your understanding so you reduce the chance of confusing more people in the future. "Reasoning" in many cases refers to internal thinking, as you can see explained here.

Comment author: Alexander230 24 July 2016 07:30:59PM 1 point [-]

Ok, thank you.

Comment author: Gunnar_Zarncke 21 July 2016 09:00:38PM 0 points [-]

Yeah. both.