what would you take first?

What would you take first? the big stealth die? the small stealth die?
or something else?

Button Men Game #690688
Tournament Legal challenge, copying communication from game 690423

Skills in this game: Stealth, Focus
Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Your Button Man: Unicorn (4 4 f6 f12 20) Score: 23 (0 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 0 / 0 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)
Your Captured Dice: None

4-sided die	4-sided die	Focus 6-sided die	Focus 12-sided die	20-sided die
2	2	2	6	13
6-sided die	Stealth 6-sided die	10-sided die	12-sided die	Stealth 12-sided die
3	4	7	11	12

Opponent: Russian *2^12th game cookie* *Ngozi's Disciple*
Button Man: White Tiger (6 d6 10 12 d12) Score: 23 (0 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 0 / 0 / 0
Captured Dice: None

mighty dice and mood swings [to the tune of polka dots and moonbeams]

Sorry about the retrospective -- my question is about the situation just BEFORE this capture.

Hmmm.... irilyth took my mood swing with his mood swing -- I guess he didn't want to reroll his 20-sided die and, since his other dice all had value of 1, he didn't have a better attack.

But was it the right thing to do? Had I been in his place, my instinct would have been to reroll the 20-sided die and capture the mighty die, so that it wouldn't have a chance to reroll as a 30 sided die. I confess, I haven't done the math -- and whenever mood swings are involved, I get confused, anyway.

Any insights?


Button Men Game #690402

Tournament #13743: revenge on the stats tournament for alia Current Round: Round 4. (organized by glassonion)

Alia's ten worst buttons using which she has played at least 8 games. If you are alia, join this tournament immediately and choose your button as you like. Other players: please hold off on joining until Tuesday night (U.S. Eastern) so the named player has a chance to join. When you do join, you *must* choose your button randomly.

Skills in this game: Twin, Mood Swing, Mighty, Konstant, X Swing, Y Swing, Speed

Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Your Button Man: Zophiel (k1 6 z(8,8) H12 Y?) Score: 45.5 (9.3 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 1 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)
Your Captured Dice: 20-sided die, 12-sided die

Konstant 1-sided die	6-sided die	Mighty 20-sided die		Y Mood Swing (with 1 sides)
1	5	5		1 Captured last turn
3-sided die	20-sided die	X Mood Swing (with 6 sides)
1	17	6

Opponent: irilyth *Poisonous Turtle* *Silver Medal in Men's 100 Meter Dash*
Button Man: Igor (3 12 20 20 X?) Score: 31.5 (-9.3 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 1 / 2 / 0
Captured Dice: Speed Twin Die (both with 8 sides), Y Mood Swing 1-sided die

Select an attack: Power Attack Skill Attack

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Results from last turn

irilyth is performing a power attack with a X Mood Swing 4-sided die showing 1, targeting ElihuRoot's Y Mood Swing 1-sided die showing 1. The X Mood Swing (now with 6 sides) is rerolled and the new value is 6. irilyth takes ElihuRoot's die.

Again, a simple mate-in-two

Easy to do the computation -- but what's your instinct?

Viewing Game #689711
Tournament Legal challenge, copying communication from game 689206
This game was last modified on Fri Feb 19, 2010 14:12:59

* Next Turn * Player: Russian *2^12th game cookie* *Ngozi's Disciple* * Next Turn *
Button Man: Dirgo Score: 80 (6.6 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 2 / 0 (out of 3 round(s))
Captured Dice: 30-sided die, 30-sided die

Dice	20-sided die	20-sided die
Value	20	12
Dice	30-sided die	Option 6/30 (with 30 sides)
Value	13	10

Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Button Man: Vincent Score: 70 (-6.6 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 2 / 0
Captured Dice: X Swing 20-sided die, 20-sided die

OPTION 1: take the die with value 5 with my 6-sided die.
OPTION 2: take the die with value 16 with my 20-sided die.

There's a tradeoff, right? This is not so hard to compute outright, but which one does your gut tell you to do?

Button Men Game #689711
Tournament Legal challenge, copying communication from game 689206

Skills in this game: Option, X Swing
Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Your Button Man: Vincent (30 30 30 6/30) Score: 38 (-34.6 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 1 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)
Your Captured Dice: 20-sided die

30-sided die	Option 6/30 (with 6 sides)		30-sided die
29	6		16 Captured last turn
20-sided die	20-sided die	X Swing (with 20 sides)
5	4	16

Opponent: Russian *2^12th game cookie* *Ngozi's Disciple*
Button Man: Dirgo (20 20 20 X) Score: 90 (34.6 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 1 / 2 / 0
Captured Dice: 30-sided die, 30-sided die

Do you see the issue here?

I know what I did, but I don't know what's best.

Button Men Game #685189
Reverse Battle From Game 684571

Skills in this game: Twin, Reserve, X Swing

Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Your Button Man: Phil (8 8 (10,10) 20 X) Score: 26.5 (-13 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 2 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)
Your Captured Dice: None

8-sided die	8-sided die	Twin Die (both with 10 sides)	X Swing (with 17 sides)		20-sided die
7	3	16	2		4 Captured last turn
4-sided die	6-sided die	10-sided die	12-sided die	12-sided die	8-sided die
1	2	3	9	3	7

Opponent: theAlmighty *heavenly* *Silver Medal in Men's Basketball* *Silver Medal in Men's Fencing* *Silver Medal in Men's Judo* *Gold Medal in Men's Table Tennis*
Button Man: Sailor Venus (4 6 10 12 r4 r8 8 12) Score: 46 (13 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 2 / 0
Captured Dice: 20-sided die