Wednesday, February 17, 2016

Button Men 101


Very basic play, right? What should blackshadowshade do?

Game #2178  •  ElihuRoot (Aquarius) vs. blackshadowshade (Taurus)  •  Round #2
Testing Zodiac
Opponent's turn to attack


(6) p(6) (8) s(12) (X)
Button: Aquarius
Player: ElihuRoot
W/L/T: 0/1/0 (3)  •  Score: 37 (+2.7 sides)
Dice captured: s(20), (10), g(8)
(6)
2
p(6)
3
(X=4)
2
18
(20)
3
(V=6)
 8 
g(8)
Dice captured: s(12), (8)
W/L/T: 1/0/0 (3)  •  Score: 33 (-2.7 sides)
Button: Taurus
g(8) (10) (20) s(20) (V)

4 comments:

James said...

I guess the first step, which I forgot, is to look at the score. XD

Unknown said...

Take the poison die with the [(V=6):3].

-jimmosk

Ted said...

But you can't afford to lose either die, so you want to minimize the probability of recapture.

James said...

This is one of those nasty occasions where the warm and fuzzy heuristic "keep the (20) safe at all costs" fails to give the right answer, and indeed fails quite badly.