(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

[xtopherusD]

*

brushes confetti out of hair

*

Wait, do you have this above every player?

Well, thanks so much for choosing me. I'm feeling that I want to open the

fourth, then first

spheres for you.

[yabbaguy]

xtopherusD

*xtopherusD opens it up*

xtopherusD

*applause, set flashes green*

There we go! It's 400 buckeroonies, but hey, gotta start somewhere.

xtopherusD

Now we remove another golden sphere...

*unlocks the latch*

It was red last time. This time...

*lifts lid*

*applause*

...oh, it's red again.

orcinus_theoriginal
doctorwho
Mist7676
JasonWazza
Feirei

Cheery Dog
bird1111
StrangerCoug
jmj3000

puzzledan
KingdomAces
IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

D3f3nd3r
animorpherv1
Xalxe
JDGA

We kicked "[vacant]" out of the gallery. His name was too weird for our show.

Rightyo, green's every bit better than red right now - but it doesn't mean red couldn't show up at the end. Be vewy vewy caweful as we deal with this 3.

*all the players start uneasily looking up and wondering what the heck is above their heads*

[animorpherv1]

Um, 3 > 1. Why did you remove another sphere?

[yabbaguy]

3. Then, one golden sphere is opened and removed from the game

(that's one after EACH turn!)

. The order they are removed in is randomly determined. Two exceptions:
* if a 4 appeared on that turn, the next golden sphere in line is skipped, and that same player instead opens a second color sphere from their own set. This secondary selection does not affect their sector's money ladder, only the subsequent target (see #4).
* if all remaining golden spheres contain the same color, no more are removed.

Boy, I didn't make nearly as big of a stink about that shmancy new change. Now watch the mayhem that is due to unfold.

For the record, I had JDGA explicitly confirm he'd seen the rule change.

[animorpherv1]

Oh. Derp.

I apparently missed the 'remove 1 from the board every game' mechanic.

EBWOP: DAMMIT YABBA I JUST SAW THAT

[yabbaguy]

I am the ultimate ninja!

[animorpherv1]

That only works when people ninja me - I ninja people all the time.

[Xalxe]

Boys, boys, you're both good ninjas.

[animorpherv1]

*shurikens yabba to a wall*

But I'm the best.

[yabbaguy]

*lobs a watermelon, banana, apple, and bomb into the air*

[Xalxe]

*snatches the banana and eats it*

[yabbaguy]

*watermelon and apple fall down*

X X

Pay attention! :P

*janitor comes on to mop it up, bomb blows up in his face as he tries to sweep it away*

[Nobody Special]

*fidgets impatiently*

[Feirei]

*looks annoyingly at Nobody Special*

[JDGA]

Xalxe

got XX, so let's get him his third strike by watching him inevitably fail his pick here. (Or, y'know, don't :3)

[yabbaguy]

Xalxe

Did anyone get the reference?

Xalxe, dear Ninja-in-Training, any jujitsu or whatever the heck you can do to get us a 4 would be great. Otherwise UV is going to amount to shitsu.

[Feirei]

And he'll find himself [albeit briefly] falling from the sky.

[Xalxe]

Xalxe

Did anyone get the reference?

Xalxe, dear Ninja-in-Training, any jujitsu or whatever the heck you can do to get us a 4 would be great. Otherwise UV is going to amount to shitsu.

Yes I got the reference despite never playing the game.

Anyway I wrote about Canto II of the Divine Comedy today on my blog, so I'm going with the

second

sphere. If I need another we'll go with the

third

.

*prays for no falling*

[yabbaguy]

I read that as praying for no failing. Close enough.

Xalxe

*the sphere creaks open - someone ought to get that some WD-40*

Xalxe

*everyone cheers, set flashes violet, Feirei falls through the hole himself*

(Hey, it's only fair)

Now then... we can't have 4 as a target, that's not fair. So I'll tell you what we'll do.

Instead

of opening a golden sphere, we'll make our second sphere this turn another one from Xalxe's rack - just so we can get a fresh target. That means the next golden sphere in line, whatever that is, is skipped.

Xalxe

UV's got its grand, this can't affect the cash there. Only the target. Therefore, we'd love it to be a 0.

Open sesame.

*lid lifts*

Xalxe

*siren goes off, audience cheers*

Xalxe

Xalxe, you now have 24 hours to simply call out your 1, 2, and 3 spheres in the order you think they are, from left to right, and if you nail this 1/6 proposition, you're in for the next game!

A whopping 3 games faster, but hey, I'm sure you'll take it.

Meanwhile...

orcinus_theoriginal
doctorwho
Mist7676
JasonWazza
Feirei

Cheery Dog
bird1111
StrangerCoug
jmj3000

puzzledan
KingdomAces
IceGuy
Nobody Special
kdowns

D3f3nd3r
animorpherv1
JDGA

...JDGA has the most powerful target in the game as a result of that pick. Good news all around. And now UV's picked up an unexpected fortune.

Fire away JDGA, don't wait for this subgame to resolve. You carry on.

[Xalxe]

Okay, we're gonna go

fourth

, then

first

, then

last

.

[yabbaguy]

2-1-3

he wants to see reading from left to right...

Xalxe

Let's see 'em!

Xalxe

*buzzer, awws*

Darn. Never mind.

[xtopherusD]

What happens if someone earns the line jump, then in the same game someone else chooses the 4,0 correctly? Do they still get a chance at skipping the queue? And if they succeed as well, do they go into some kind of secondary Line Jump Line?

Ooh, someone in that queue could still pick the order right. What would happ-- No, I feel like probability is already against the

first

scenario. Carry on.

Okay, why do I want to work out the chance of that happening. You're on a break now, toph. Stop trying to think.

[yabbaguy]

If two people win the Jump (possible), then they'd go into this "express queue" which would empty out before the normal one in the order that they won. I'm frankly gonna wing it if someone wins a Jump

whilst they're waiting in that priority queue

, because that'd just be nuts if they do.

Also, if a sector collapses and someone in it is never picked, we'll still give them a crack at divining their spheres while the credits roll.

[JDGA]

Hey,

puzzledan

, push blue for me please~

[Feirei]

Can still use bad sectors for target control.