Burthorpe Games Room

Burthorpe Games Room
Released								24 November 2004 (Update)
Also called								BGR
Type								Minigame
Members								Yes
Location								Burthorpe Castle
League region								Asgarnia✓
Participants								2
Skills								None
Requirements								None
Reward currency								N/A
Tutorial								No
Music								Competition
Map

The Burthorpe Games Room is a minigame area located under Burthorpe Castle in Burthorpe. Players can teleport there using a games necklace, or by using Minigame Teleport. There are no rewards or prizes for playing each except for game rankings. A branch of the Toad and Chicken pub is located by the entrance, Sam and Rachael both sell glasses of beer: Asgarnian ale, Wizard's mind bomb, and Dwarven stout for 2 coins each.

The games offered are identical to the ones at the Games Zone.

	Victory!
The jingle that plays upon ending in a win.

	Defeat...
The jingle that plays upon ending in defeat.

	Draw
The jingle that plays upon ending in a draw.

The games in the Burthorpe Games Room are quite common brain-teasing puzzle games, such as Othello, Draughts (known as checkers in North America), and Connect Four. They are played with one person at a time, and the player can be challenged to any of the four games via the lobby. However, at the end of each game, the player is placed in a room in which they can only challenge their opponent to another match of the previous game; making it so you must return to the main room prior to challenging them to a different game.

The following official world is assigned to the Burthorpe Games Room:

World	Location	Members	Activity
491	United States (east)	1	Burthorpe Games Room

Players have a "rank" for each of the four games, which goes up or down depending on whether they beat their opponents in the game, similar to the Elo system famously used for chess ratings. The rank initially starts at 1,000, and the rank change scales with the difference between the opponents' ranks.

The resulting change is bounded between 1 and 100, and is added to the winner and subtracted from the loser. Your rank cannot go below 1 or above 60000. For example:

• a 1,000-rank player beating another 1,000-rank player will gain 50 points
• a 1,200-rank player beating a 800-rank player will gain 25 points
• a 800-rank player beating a 1,200 rank player will gain 75 points
• a 1,500 rank player beating a 500-rank player will only gain 1 point
• a 643 rank playing beating a 1-rank player will gain 9 points, but the loser will not lose any points because they are already at the minimum rank.

Players need 1,500 rank in the relevant game in order to go to some of the upstairs rooms in the Games Room.

• The area where the cutscene from The Eyes of Glouphrie takes place in can be seen from the western side of the Games Room by using an oculus orb. As the gnome and goblin armies are not classified as NPCs by the game, they can be seen as well.
• In the 27th issue of God Letters, Saradomin mentions he enjoys "the odd game of Runelink with Guthix."^[1]
• When attempting to drop an item inside the Games Room, a unique warning is given to the player: "Are you sure you want to put that down? If you start playing a boardgame, you may not get back to retrieve it." After the player selects "Put it down." no further warnings will be given until the player teleports out or goes south of the walls outside Burthorpe Castle.
• The noticeboard inside the Games Room used to have a "Read" option that when interacted with, would display a message saying that the empty rooms may be used for new games like Slime Wars and Chess if the Games Room was popular enough.

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