Game Overview
You play this game with a partner. The game progresses in rounds. In each round, one of you is the Speaker, and the other is the Listener. The roles can change during the game. You both see the same set of 10 pictures, but in a different order. A prompt on the screen tells you your role. The speaker’s goal is to describe the target image to a listener so that the listener can correctly guess the image.
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Speaker
Your objective is to describe the target image by typing a message into the chat box each round, so the listener can select it. If the listener selects the target image, you both win! The target image is highlighted with a black frame. The listener doesn’t see this frame. Once the listener makes a selection, the frame will become green if they selected correctly, or red otherwise. This is a screenshot of the speaker view with a target highlighted in a black frame and the chat box on the left:
You can’t use the position of the image, because the listener sees the images in a different order.
Listener
Your goal is to select the image described by the speaker. If you select correctly, the round is a success! Once you make a selection, the frame will become green if you got it right, or red otherwise. You select the image by clicking on it. Here’s a screenshot of the listener view with a message from the speaker (in the chat box on the left):
Time Limits
Each round lasts 60 seconds. The speaker has 45 seconds to send a message and the listener has the remaining time to make their selection.
No Action Rounds
If you don’t do anything during a round, we consider that you abandoned the round. If you abandon two consecutive rounds, the game is terminated immediately. Please see the task description for the implication of abandoning a game on task pay.