four very similar [basic]

does it make any different which die j. captures? this isn't deep.


Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic* 
Button Man: Famine    Score: 65 (28 sides)   Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 1 / 0 (out of 3 round(s))
Captured Dice: Weak X Swing 13-sided die, 10-sided die, Twin Die (both with 12 sides)

Dice	8-sided die	Twin Die (both with 12 sides)	Weak X Swing (with 4 sides)
Value	2	12	2
Dice	6-sided die	8-sided die
Value	6	8

* Next Turn * Player: jthurley * Next Turn *
Button Man: Famine    Score: 23 (-28 sides)   Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 1 / 2 / 0

Did I mention I hate Mood Swings?

At least this time, I wasn't the one with the tricky calculation. Which die should d. capture?This isn't necessarily HARD [though it's different face-to-face than on the website, since the values the Y swing can take are different], but I find it conceptually confusing -- the size of the Y swing if it rerolls makes a difference in the victory conditions and in the
probability of success.

it's from Game  727223






Tournament Legal challenge, copying communication from game 726401
This game was last modified on Fri Jan 20, 2012 08:25:45


* Next Turn * Player: dakeyras *Lamb* * Next Turn *
Button Man: Scorpion    Score: 40 (-3.6 sides)   Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 2 / 0 (out of 3 round(s))
Captured Dice: 8-sided die, 16-sided die, 12-sided die

Dice	4-sided die	Focus 4-sided die
Value	3	2
Dice	8-sided die	Y Mood Swing (with 11 sides)
Value	5	5

Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic* 
Button Man: MothMan    Score: 45.5 (3.6 sides)   Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 2 / 0
Captured Dice: 20-sided die, Focus 12-sided die, 4-sided die

Jim M. submits the following queer puzzle

What to capture first? It's made even more tricky by the fact that, even if you roll safely,
you *might* have to roll a second time...

Player: jimmosk *Classically Fuzzy* *Bronze Medal in Men's Bars* *Bronze Medal in Men's Judo*

Your Button Man: RandomBM (^2 6 Gq8 ^8 Gq12) 
Score: 32 (-1.6 sides) 

Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 0 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)

Your Captured Dice: Twin Die (both with 10 sides), Berserk Queer 6-sided die

Queer 12-sided die		Time and Space 8-sided die
1		4 Captured last turn
Queer 8-sided die	Queer 8-sided die	Queer 5-sided die
5	7	3

Opponent: lephantman13 *Perfect Memory*

Button Man: RandomBM (qB6 q8 q8 qB10 (10,10)) 

Score: 34.5 (1.6 sides) 
Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 0 / 2 / 0

Captured Dice: Time and Space 2-sided die, 6-sided die, Queer 8-sided die, Time and Space 8-sided die