Tuesday, January 20, 2009

what's more urgent?

The 12-sided die showing 11? or the 20-sided die showing 4? Which should I take now to maximize the chance I'll end up in a winning position?



Tournament #13728: revenge on the stats tournament for scodi
Current Round: Round 1. (organized by glassonion)
Scodi's ten worst buttons with which he has played at least 6 games. If you are scodi, you may choose your button. Everyone else *must* select randomly.

Skills in this game: Poison, V Swing, X Swing
Player: ElihuRoot *Dead Dude* *Fanatic*
Your Button Man: Clare (6 8 8 20 X) Score: 13 (-1.3 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 2 / 1 / 0 (Out of 3 wins)
Your Captured Dice: None
6-sided die 8-sided die 8-sided die X Swing
(with 4 sides)

20-sided die
3 4 3 1
10
Captured last turn
Poison
4-sided die
12-sided die Poison
20-sided die
20-sided die V Swing
(with 6 sides)

2 11 1 4 1
Opponent: shadowshade *Father of Pearl* *Bronze Medal in Men's Synchronized Swimming*
Button Man: Coil (p4 12 p20 20 V) Score: 15 (1.3 sides) Rounds Won/Lost/Tied: 1 / 2 / 0
Captured Dice: 20-sided die

1 comment:

James said...

Looking at that match, I seem to have won this game (#661731) 3 rounds to 2, meaning that you won this round.

Coming back to the question, if the positions were reversed, I'd take the d20, because no matter what I do, the opponent probably be left with a large die remaining, and I'd rather that this be a d12 rather than a d20.