Thursday, February 18, 2010

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

2 comments:

Unknown said...

I'd absolutely take take the 16 with my 29. There's an 80% chance I get to go again immediately, while if I take the 5 with my 6 there's only a 33% chance that that happens.

James said...

I agree totally with jimmosk.