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The Seven of Hearts game
Could everyone have survived by cutting the wires connecting the sheep's headsets to the bomb collars? The game doesn't explicitly say that tampering with the devices was forbidden, but perhaps taking a risk on that was also within the scope of a Hearts game ...
- Probably. The rules never said anything about tampering with the collars, and the tools table didn't say what they should do with the tools. On the other hand, if we're assuming that people who lose the game are meant to die, then the sheep would probably be death lasered anyway. Only the wolf can be the winner.
- Subsequent Hearts games show that everyone can clear the game, even though it seems otherwise. For example, in 10♥ Witch Hunt, no one even has to die as the one they supposed to hunt is already dead. Another example is 9♥ Alien Invasion in Retry, where although there are less escape pods as the player go through further rounds, not all pods have a limit of 1 player each.
- That being said, there are some games where there can be only one winner, but they're not in the category everyone expects—Hearts, a.k.a. game of betrayals. They are 6♦ Blackjack, J♦ Mahjong and K♦ Beauty Contest, all of which are Diamonds games.
- Also, Hearts are told to us as games of betrayal ... but in many actual games of betrayal, the best solution is often to trust each other and work together. But that's usually also the harder solution, since the best individual option is typically to betray the rest, which typically screws over everyone. See also the Prisoner's Dilemma. So it's possible that there were other solutions to the game.
The Three of Clubs game (Good Fortune, Bad Fortune)
Why didn't they hurry up in drawing their fortunes? Even if they have to answer the question in a time limit, doing so is not part of the clear conditions.
The Four of Clubs game (Distance)
Was the water provided after 5000 dangerous/poisonous or was it regular water?
The Ten of Hearts game
- Why did the Witch kill herself? Obviously being dead means she is no longer in competition to win the game, so refusing and getting lasered in the head seems like a pretty sweet option. Especially considering unless she did it perfectly, somehow there would have been signs of suicide. Though that part, I will give suspension of belief.
- To my memory, the Witch was a dealer, not a regular player, so she did it as part of the typical Hearts game mindfuckery. I don't imagine most people at the Beach would know enough about pathology to know how to identify the difference between suicide and murder, especially when everyone is panicking.
- When With Hunt mandated someone to off themselves as part of the game, she volunteered partly out of Survivor Guilt from killing other players to extend her life, partly to let her partner reap her benefits.
- Another possible explanation is that one of the Game Masters manipulated her so that she would be Driven to Suicide, either because she was a potential leak/loose end, or because they needed a convenient body to be the Witch.
- It’s revealed in the second season that it was meant to be a mix of dying with dignity (rather than being killed in a game), and to prove to the Game Masters that humans weren’t all bad.
- When the game started, the announcement said there were 58 residents of the Beach total. That includes the Executives, the Militant faction, Arisu, Usagi, Chihaya, Kuina and then the various unnamed characters. Yet, the body-count for the game, what we see at least, seems much higher than that. Aguni’s Militant faction alone seems to be around 15 people, which combined with the other characters we know is about 25 people, if not more. The numbers don’t seem to add up. What’s up?
