young man not unattractive
seeks people to have timed triplechain with
right now

ibavly going for his third win gogogogogogogogogogogoooo

weird I can only ever recall winning the DC once

I honestly think that is likely a glitch

if you are leading the current DC, it shows up as a victory on your page, so long as you are still leading

Gabe jinxed it.

wow that's a dagger

The latest double-blind peer reviewed studies cast some doubt on the whole "jinx" idea. But it's too early to tell for sure.

Now you've just jinxed jinxes

LIES

nooooooooooooooo

I was the first one to play the challenge. After I finished I wasn't 100% sure if my score was beatable, but I suspected it would be with a couple insanely illogical moves.

Not saying there was cheating in the challenge, but it would incredibly easy for anyone decent to win a challenge if they played it twice.

*cough* anton-09 *cough*

Lets see if we can win the DC today.
I think my score is pretty optimal. I expect ties before this is over.

thought my entry might be good for first place

(fwiw i think that comment is just the wrong side of the line between harmless chitchat and potentially spoiling the DC)

My comment?

:blush:

I´ll tell you what I did. My main chain was 1s.

The game sucked, but...

LOL

You needed 556 in the last rack to make snaaaaakes

That 2 in the middle zone, how tf did it get there

44 minutes and counting down to 19th DC victory!!

So I won yesterday´s challenge by being the only player making 4s my major outer chain and making snaaakes, where 5s failed to do so.

How I play this is automatic. I remember the racks. First rack contained 456, which I placed like this:

#	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
2	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
3	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
5	.	.	5	6	.	.	.	.	.
6	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
7	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
8	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
9	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#

The second rack did not contain 4s or 5s, but it had 6s, so I placed like this:

#	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
2	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
3	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
5	.	.	5	6	.	.	.	.	.
6	.	.	.	.	6	.	.	.	.
7	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
8	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
9	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#

Note the flexibility of this layout. I can still choose between making 4s or 5s my outer major chain. If rack 3 contains 2 4s I will place like this:

#	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
2	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
3	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
5	.	.	5	6	.	.	4	.	.
6	.	.	.	.	6	.	.	.	.
7	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
8	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
9	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#

and hope to catch a 5, place it in E4 to make it my inner minor chain.

If rack 3 contains 2 5s, I can go like this:

#	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
2	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
3	#	#	#	.	5	.	#	#	#
4	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.	.
5	.	.	5	6	.	.	5	.	.
6	.	.	.	.	6	.	.	.	.
7	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
8	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
9	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#

And hope to catch a 4, place it in F5 for my inner minor chain.

The actual rack 3 had 445, so I was probably the first one in the field completing the prerequisites for Dynasty strat in rack 3:

#	A	B	C	D	E	F	G	H	I
1	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
2	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
3	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
4	.	.	.	.	5	.	.	.	.
5	.	.	5	6	.	.	4	.	.
6	.	.	.	.	6	.	.	.	.
7	#	#	#	.	4	.	#	#	#
8	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#
9	#	#	#	.	.	.	#	#	#

"The field" was lucky to catch a 5 in 4th rack, otherwise they would not have completed their outer major chain requirements.

But I got lucky that rolls 5-8 produced 4x4s and only 2x5s, so I could complete my major outer chain and "the field" could not.

All right, Gabe. I really appreciate you talking about your game decisions like this.

Current DC talk

i need to think abt it, because i would never put my first roll that way. I've been meaning to think about the dynasty versus normal strategies, because i very often end up in a normal style strategy.

Also, what happens when you get 45xxx in the third roll?

The thing I'm not sure a lot of people realize is that inner minor and outer chains are interchangeable. In racks 7-8 you can always just chose to make the inner chain hit all 5 areas.

yes, that's the plus side of the dynasty strat - you have greater flexibility in choosing which two chains to try to snake - the down side is that it makes it somewhat harder to snake the outside chain. So i guess it's better to be in a dynasty model when the distribution of 4/5/6(/3) is close, but when you get a lot of two numbers early, you'd prefer to be in a regular mode, since you are sure which two chains have the highest potential score if you snake them. This is, i guess, essentially why i try to hold off committing whether to dynasty or snake charmer until later, if possible.

Also, when you are making a 4-point outside chain, do you make 2 parallel lines of three and then seek to connect them, or do you make a line of 3, grow it to 5 in an L-shape, and then try to connect the final point?