The Psychology of Randomness in Multiplayer Games

Nintendo is generally like one of their main sort of philosophies when it comes to multiplayer games. They try and always be leveling the playing field because most of their stuff is not online. I was playing Mouse Trap with my three and six year old nephews and they loved it even though, you know, it's nonsense. It kind of comes back to that stuff we were talking about before of like the player psychology of like, we think we're on a hot streak with coin flips or something of like, oh man, yeah, I've flipped 10 heads now"