I like that all throughout the games, Sam repeatedly tries to sell "no, no, the strategy that makes the more sense is for all of us to put as much money into the pot as possible" using very shoddy logic, and nobody calls him out on it. The best strategy in a prisoner's dilemma is to defect and persuade everyone else to cooperate, and that's very much what he tries.,(reply>), Yes but in prisoners dilemma they are not allowed to communicate. Here they can tell others what they think and negotiate with each other.,(reply>), Same, except by "like" it's more "kinda pissed off",(reply>), @13thxenos It's not a multiple instance dilemma, either, since that's conditional on the players knowing what the other players did. And Sam managed that well, too, since he cooperated when defecting was visible and did not when it wasn't.,(reply>), That is for single instants of prisoner's dilemma. If you add in the multiple rounds and them knowing each other, that is a whole other game. Also, the losing side in this game just makes less money, which they didn't have in the beginning. So it is not a true prisoner's dilemma. So the better strategy here is actually cooperating.,(reply>), and he got the most money in the end :D