The Prisoner's Dilemma Game

The Prisoner’s Dilemma game showed who can work together, and who can’t. My partner and I did really well in the first round but terrible in the second round. At first, our strategy was to say that we will both confess, so we each get one point. At the last second we would changed our answer to deny so that we get plus two points, and the other team gets minus two points. It worked very well at first because no one knew that we were going to screw them over. In the second round though, everyone screwed us over because they knew our strategy even though we decided to be honest and keep our word. Our knew strategy was to say that the other team would confess and we deny, so we got minus two points and they got plus two points. But again, at the last second we would change our answer to confess as well so we both got one point. No one believed that we would our promise because we screwed them over in the first round. We ended up both getting minus two because everyone thought that we were lying again. After the game ended, I thought that we should have just cooperated so everyone gets at least on point each. Another good idea though was to be honest in the first round, and then screw everyone in the second round because people would think that we were honest, but we were not really going to be. Maria and I would have dominated if we did what we decided to do after the game was over. In the end, everyone should just cooperate. That way every person gets something. In the Lord of the Flies I think they should cooperate also. Everyone would hopefully get along so something would get accomplished on that island.