[JJK] quick question… how the hell do the culling games work?

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The anime staff made a video to summarise The Culling Game

[The Culling Game explained in three minutes](https://youtu.be/XwOvgfpI7Xo?si=BbcyYdoEL1WlSqku)

Basically,

People who wake up with a curse technique given to them (for example, Tsumiki) must enter the culling games, a battle royale that takes place in a barrier, before 19 days pass.

If they do not enter one, they'll have their curse technique removed or be killed in simpler terms.

There are multiple barriers, or games, running at once with different game masters who create the rules for their game.

Non-curse users, such as normal humans or people like Maki/Toji, can enter the games by simply entering a barrier that is hosting a game. (So normal humans can accidentally walk into the barrier and join the games).

The game itself is basically a darwinian death match, where players kill each other for points to see who is strong enough to live in the new world pseudo-geto is creating. Everyone is worth a different amount based on whether they are a curse-user or not.

So let's say Megumi is worth 10 points. So if he dies, his killer would get 10 points. If you refuse to kill for 19 days in the game or you do not get any points, your curse technique will be removed/be killed. So if Megumi stays at 10 points for 19 days, he would have his technique removed. This forces active participation.

Once you have 100 points + your initial value, you can tell the gamemaster to add your own rule as long as it doesn't significantly alter the basics of the game. In our previous example, Megumi would need 110 points before he can create a rule. Then, he could tell the game master to create a rule such as letting people leave the game once they reach a certain amount of points. (I'm not sure if this rule would count as significantly changing the game but that's an example).

Just watch episode 3 repeatedly until you understand it.

it's basically a battle royal where sorcerers have to kill each other in order to survive. Most of these sorcerers are newly awakened and had their techniques given to them by Kenjaku, and so he can take them away at ay time, killing them in the process, and incentivizing people to keep playing.

Kill sorcerers get points, use points to add rules, rules added cannot directly end the game.


That is all.

Short version: it’s a point-based survival game. Players gain points by killing others, can add rules, and the goal is to force evolution through chaos.