Zetangole™ How To Play

Game play consists of 10 rounds in each of which up to 6 players can participate.
In each round, the Game server selects a random target, usually a well-known person.
The player whose snap (captured during the game) is deemed most similar to that of the target by the game server is the winner of that round. Within the game, similarity is measured in miles in Hash space, (a region in space time with a unique geometry wherein your distance from any person is directly related to the similarity of your looks).

Players get to choose who takes their picture, or they can snap themselves. Players are given a reasonable amount of time to transform their looks with whatever make-up or appearance-enhancement aid happens to be at hand.



The rules of the basic game are so simple that even grown-ups can play it with ease. 10 points are awarded to the winner of each round (no points for 2nd and lower places). In addition, a player gets 1 point each time he or she is chosen as a snapper by another player (No points for snapping yourselves). Points are tallied up at the end of the game to determine the overall winner of the game. Games typically last anywhere from 15 minutes to an hour, but will be archived live during game-play to be available for your viewing pleasure forever thereafter. Here is a sample archive of a fictitious 3-round game (Dummy player images).

Click here for screen-shots from a simulated basic game. Of course, there are infinite variations in game-play. The Zetangole website offers contributed clients to play a number of them.

To play the game, click here .



Problems with game play? Here are some tips:

• Make sure you can connect to the Zetangole game server. To check this, you may wish to just browse to http://www.zetangole.com and see if you can reach it.
• Make sure your webcam or phone cam is functional. Take a snap outside of the game and see if you can capture a decent image.
• Getting distances of 9999? This means the algorithm cannot register a face in the captured images. Here's how you can do better:
• Frame the subject in rectangle. Don't crop the subject's face and try to match as closely as possible to the target.
• El-cheapo flashlights really help. Get an assistant to hold the flashlight to your face, while the snapper shoots.
• Fire snapper, hire another. Maybe your snapper is just plain bad! Ask another player to snap you and get that point.
• Be nice; don't snap yourself. Get someone else to snap you. You can't snap and pose well at the same time.