✎ en:patterns:bluff [Design of location-based mobile games]

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====== Bluff ======
**Bluffing** is a tactic where a person deceives their opponents on purpose in order to gain an advantage. A game can be designed in order to allow for bluffing to {{tagpage>weak_pattern|emerge}}.

As a design pattern **bluffing** requires that the players be able to conceal [[en:pattern:information_awareness|information]] from their co-players. Complex behaviours and [[en:patterns:strategy|strategies]] can emerge through **bluffing**.

Of course, a second premise for **bluffing** is a game of [[en:patterns:competition|competition]].

**Bluffing** is a case of the [[en:patterns:information_awareness|information awareness]] pattern. The difference is that in the general case control of information depends on the system or on the game. In the  **bluffing** pattern, control of the relevant information is at the hands of the player who bluffs.

A failed bluff can have implications in terms of [[en:patterns:rewards|penalty]] or [[en:patterns:score|score]].

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=== Related patterns ===
[[en:patterns:competition|competition]]

[[en:patterns:information_awareness|information awareness]]

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=== Related heuristics ===
[[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.4]]

[[en:heuristics:heuristics#3.5]]

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