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The Payoff Trap: Designing Wargames That Reward Players for Gaming the Scenario, Not Solving It

Badly built scoring systems teach players to optimize the game instead of the crisis. Here's how to design payoff structures that resist exploitation.

E. Sokolov

· October 19, 2026 · 4 min read

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