In the next part, you will play a game with 99 other participants
(there are 100 players in this game, including you).
The other participants might not play the game at the same time
as you do, so you will not have to wait for others.
Rest assured that the other players are other participants on
Prolific. We never deceive participants in our instructions or invent
participants who do not exist.
We will determine the results of the game, after we have
collected the responses of all players.
Next, we will explain the rules of the game.
The game lasts 25 rounds.
In each round you will make one decision. Your decisions will affect your own bonus payment
and can affect other players’ bonus payments.
Every player has a color, either green or red.
You and every other player all start as green players.
Some players may change from green to red
in the course of the game (we explain below how this can happen).
Once a player has changed to red, they stay red
for the remainder of the game. It is not possible to change back to green.
Like all the other players, you will only know your color at the beginning of the game.
Once the game has started, and throughout the game, nobody will know their own color,
nor will they know any other player’s color.
In the course of the game, you will earn points.
At the end of the game, green players will receive a bonus payment
based on the number of points they have earned across all rounds.
Each point is worth a fixed amount of bonus money for a green player.
In contrast, red players will NOT receive a bonus payment for this game.
Their points are not converted into money at the end of the game.