"Rule Breaker" Finale
Finale of Rule Breaker uses the same rules: eliminated players come back and give tokens to player they support. Tokens help them in each of three games in the finale.
Yohwan has the pick of the first game and he chooses Indian Hold'em. Being professional poker player, he has an advantage and he convincingly beats Sangmin winning first game.
Second game is "Truth Detector". Both players pick 4-digit number. Then players start asking questions to guess their opponent's number. There is added twist to it in that you can only respond in lies, if your answer is truthful — your opponent is shown one of your digits.
Sangmin's strategy is very straightforward: he asks if digit is smaller than 5 and similar questions for each of the digits to cut tree of possible solutions in half with each question.
Yohwan however asks "does you number have 9, 4 or 5?". After a number of questions like that he knows that Sangmin's number has 9 and 8. Then to home in on the remaining two digits he asks questions like "is sum/product of two of your smallest digits smaller/larger than X?". It is a complicated strategy that eventually confuses even him. However, by turn 12 he successfully guesses all 4 digits in Sangmin's number and only needs to place them in the right order to win.
At this time, Sangmin using his simple "binary search" method has figured out three of Yohwan's digits and only two questions away from definitively knowing the last digit. He uses token giving him the right to ask 2 questions in one turn and wins second game.
Third game is Quattro which is a game of high variance (read: luck). Sangmin lucks into victory there and wins The Genius: Rule Breaker.
Tropes:
- Complexity Addiction: Yohwan's tendency for unorthodox solutions lead him to cook up convoluted plan to guess Sangmin's number which is confusing even to him. He was very close though.
- Fixing the Game: Yohwan counts cards using stack of chips as counting aid. By the end of the deck he knows exactly which cards are left.
- The Password Is Always "Swordfish": Sangmin picked 1928, year of birth of his late father. While his opponent obviously not gonna know this particular factoid, picking a year is still a mistake, because it is very possible to guess that four digit number might just be a year and most likely it will be a year in XX century which gives you two first digits before you even start: 1 and 9.
- Victory by Endurance: Yohwan's strategy against Sangmin in Indian Hold'em. He only bets 1 or 2 avoiding big gets to remove even a possibility of losing too much. Being a better poker player he wins more chips than he loses in the long run.
- Yohwan's strategy in The Genius as a whole. When addressing other players Sangmin says: "I'm here to win", while Yohwan says: "I'm here to survive". Due to Yohwan being an awful player in main matches (he even knowingly tanked his play on more than one occasion in pursuit of meta-game goals), he spent most of the season with zero garnets which made him an unappealing target for Deathmatch, especially given his reputation as a hard 1 vs 1 opponent, being the best Starcraft player of all time. Instead Yohwan prioritized Deathmatches and floated through them all the way to the finale.
