KeySafe Help: Missed

NOTE: This feature is only available if you have chosen to play a dice or card game in the "Features/Options" field, you have set the Current Permission field to "window" and the Repeats field to a value greater than "none". The default is "do nothing".

If you turn on the "reduce odds" feature, then each time the wearer fails to discover a window you set, the odds set in the "Game Odds" field will automatically change to the next lower percentage. This option provides a powerful incentive for the wearer to find every available window since missing a window not only means he or she missed a chance to play the game and possibly get a permission, but it means his or her chances of getting a permission have dropped for the remaining windows.

On the other hand, the default of "do nothing" leaves the odds you originally set unchanged no matter how many windows the wearer misses.

The wearer's odds are never lowered for failing to win a play of the game; only for completely missing a window. Please note that if you choose to "reduce odds", the wearer will find his chances reduced for EVERY window he misses until it reaches the lowest chance where it will then stop. Thus, if he falls asleep and misses two windows, he will only see a message that he missed the last window, but actually his odds will also have been reduced twice. On his History page you can see both missed windows and the associated reduction of odds, while he will only see the time of the last missed window and he will NOT see that his chances have dropped. You should know that when he misses a window, he will see that unless you make changes, his odds will decline for the next game. However, he will not know what what his new odds actually are, only that they have decreased.

This field can be combined very effectively with the "Upon Losing" field to create a situation where your wearer is punished with reduced odds for missing a window, but rewarded with increased odds for finding a window but losing the game. The result in practice is see-sawing odds for your wearer and a growing incentive to find the windows you have set.

This field can be changed at any time. Once you press the "Record Changes" button, the new choice takes immediate effect. You can really make your wearer squirm by playing with this field and changing the "Game Odds" field "by hand" during a set of repeating windows.

V 1.1c - 04/29/12