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Chaz · Vote: Zag

I am sorry guys! Ecstatic Happiness

I got a bit overwhelmed with work and wedding stuff.

Do I need to move now, or do I have time to go over this thread tonight?
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wordcross · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 4:35 pm Post subject: 42

You've got time to look things over. I don't know that we'll need you to do anything specific for this round but mostly we'd just like your input on strategy.

(We might have needed you more, but I think the other team has shot themselves in the foot.)
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wordcross · Posted: Wed Mar 16, 2011 8:44 pm Post subject: 43

No idea if this is anything or not, but UM insists on spelling the other tribe's name as Palidan. He got it right on their thread title (Paladin), but I even mentioned it in the main thread and he didn't respond. It has been fairly consistent throughout this challenge. There are select places where he has still put paladin, though.

I thought maybe it was just typo, but he's done it on almost all of his posts recently.
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Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

opps it was just a spelling typo. I couldn't remember if it was palidan or paladan.
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3. Never release Peyton Manning

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

and by paladan i mean paladin lol
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1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

wordcross · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 1:03 am Post subject: 46

Zag to D5, block C3

Unless we want to move jbv down one to give us that extra space of breathing room. I don't think that's necessary.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

No, that buys us one move, and me moving to D5 costs them one move because they failed to anticipate the move there. It's the same net. Gawd, it's amazing the blunders they make. Is taunting the enemy appropriate in this game?

Zag · Tired of his old title

I realized as I posted that D6 is better. If I move to D5, they can block D6 and potentially cut me off from the 7 row, and they can now cut off jbv off from it in one move, even after he moves once. however, with me at D6, they can cut me off from the center area, but then bgg can move into it.

wordcross · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 3:02 am Post subject: 49

works for me.

once we get you to C5, if we can it would be ideal to get you inside the wall. Keep you somewhere that gives you the ability to move as long as they can. Then it hardly matters what they do outside their own domain.
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wordcross · Posted: Thu Mar 17, 2011 11:19 pm Post subject: 50

Zag to C5, Block C1 (I say C1 so that if bgg gets out he's got that extra space for movement.)

Next turn we need to get bgg a spot further out (probably e4) and block C7or D7 (depending on if Amb moves.)

Then, If they don't block B5 in the next couple of turns, (and we're comfortable with out positions) we'll do Zag to B5 and block C5.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Right. I totally agree. However, next move, jbv or bgg should move out. jbv moving will cost them a move to block him, one that they can't afford, and jbv can always move back.

Zag · Tired of his old title

If they have any brains, they will move C7 and block E4. Then bgg should move E3 and block D7. I plan not to move again until they block one of my exits to the main area, and then only if they have already blocked bgg from getting out there.

wordcross · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 1:10 am Post subject: 53

I agree.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Just checking, UM: Can we move away from a spot and then block the spot we are vacating?

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

yes any open spot including the one you just vacated.
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1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

wordcross · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:17 pm Post subject: 56

Well, that's what we expected.

We need to move bgg first. If we move jbv and they block bgg, we lose 5 moves in the entire game and gain only 2.

And of course we're blocking D7.

The board would then look like this:

http://www.glpics.com/wordcross/html/Survivor.html

After this turn, they have 8 turns max. We have a minimum of 9 moves left in the game, I think. Although it's closer than I thought it would be, as long as we're not idiots we should have this in the bag.
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wordcross · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 7:25 pm Post subject: 57

Question for UM:

Are we *required* to move a player every round, or can we skip moving and just black out a space?
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Zag · Tired of his old title

If you could skip moving, the game would never end. That's the whole point - to make it so your opponent can't move.

Zag · Tired of his old title

Well, they made the right move, for once. bgg, your action.

Move to E3 and block D7

wordcross · Posted: Fri Mar 18, 2011 8:11 pm Post subject: 60

jbvntx · Daedalian Member

So I should sit and bgg should move, right?
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Yeah, we need bgg to get out to where he costs them 3 more moves instead of only 1.

If they don't close you in with this move, though, then next move is yours.

Undercover Monk · Professor Chaos

you must move someone before you black out a space and remember the clock is ticking.
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1. never get involved in a land war in Asia
2.Never go in against a Sicilian when DEATH is on the line
3. Never release Peyton Manning

wordcross · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 12:24 am Post subject: 64

Alright, time to drop jbv a space.

as for what to black out, it hardly matters. But just in case, it might be helpful to start with the spaces away from Zag. If moving Zag in to close a gap is what ends the game, well then that's just icing on the cake Wink

If it happens that we manage to make a half circle inside their camp, we might block them from an empty space entirely. It would give them one less move to make, but I doubt they'll give us that luxury.

So jbv to G8 and black out A2?
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bgg1996 · BeeGees are awesome!

This reminds me of the scene in Harry potter 1 where you had to win at life-sized chess to pass.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

wordcross · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 1:26 am Post subject: 67

we'll leave you where you are until you're the one who has to move. If we must move you back to the middle, we will, but I don't know that we will. I just think it would be nice to cut their time shorter if that option ever opens up.

(if they ever vacate B4 and B5 simultaneously, we could move you to one and block the other, depriving them of two spaces they would otherwise have had. I'm sure they know this, which is why ctorj is where he is.)
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jbvntx · Daedalian Member

I'll move to G8. I don't see much difference, but I'm leaning towards blocking B3. Does that sound okay to everyone?
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Sure. As I said, I had a reason for that, too. It means we can, if we want, force lexprod away from where he can help box me in, if we decide for me to invade. The only cost is that it reduces the chance that they will make the blunder of leaving both B4 and B5 empty, but I don't think there was any chance of that, anyway.

wordcross · Posted: Sun Mar 20, 2011 6:23 pm Post subject: 70

I'll be gone for the next 24 to 36 hours or so. Shouldn't be any sort of issue with that, but I thought I'd let you guys know.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Just in case anyone had any doubt. This is conservative -- I actually think that there is no way they can prevent me from picking up one more, but I didn't bother to work out all the combinations. They could hit D6 E6, blocking me from E7, but then D4 E5 become 10 and 11.

Zag · Tired of his old title

I don't plan to move until they hit either D5 or D6. We have complete access to the rest of our free spaces, so it doesn't really matter, as long as we don't do something stupid that cuts some of them off. word, you haven't had a shot, yet. You should move.

wordcross · Posted: Tue Mar 22, 2011 6:07 pm Post subject: 73

Sure. Move to G5 and black A1?
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Zag · Tired of his old title

Works for me.

wordcross · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:03 am Post subject: 75

http://www.glpics.com/wordcross/html/Survivor.html

Well, they can't possibly win. If they block you in completely, that gives us an extra move for chaz/bgg/wordcross at some point even beyond the endgame. if they don't, then you have a couple of moves beyond endgame.

I don't think you even need to move anywhere. I could move again, or bgg could, or even chaz if we want to get him to move at all. This is pretty much a done deal.
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Zag · Tired of his old title

I moved before I came here. I believe we would win by one move if I didn't, but it isn't work risking a miscalculation when my moving makes it so easy.

wordcross · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 3:35 am Post subject: 77

Eh, whichever. It just gives them one more turn. They still can't win Revenge most foul!

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wordcross · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 12:25 pm Post subject: 78

I don't think we should move bgg until they either block F4 or both D2 and E2. Otherwise they can cut him off from a space and we'd have to get Chaz to move. I'd prefer not to have to count on that.

Zag, you can pretty much move back and forth between D5, E5, and E6 until they block something else on you. Either way you get the same number of moves afterward.
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wordcross · Posted: Wed Mar 23, 2011 1:44 pm Post subject: 79

http://www.glpics.com/wordcross/html/Survivor.html

Updated board. Revenge most foul!

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Zag · Tired of his old title

bgg or Chaz, take the next one, once they have moved.