(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

kdowns · Post Post #125 (ISO) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 9:54 am

Sphere Numero 3, then 1

yabbaguy · Post Post #126 (ISO) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 10:41 am

Oui oui!

if you meant Spanish, too bad, I'm half-French.

*kdowns pushes in the magic button*

kdowns

*and out comes...*

kdowns

*audience cheers, set flashes blue*

Whoa, he found it!!! How about that?

*more cheering*

Here comes a big opportunity now!

Can we crush this target?

kdowns

*here it comes...*

kdowns

*oohs, applause*

Close, almost perfect picking from kdowns! Don't run into a 1 now, JDGA. xD

kdowns

Positionally close too. You were beating around the bush there!

JerryArr
Mist7676
JasonWazza

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

IceGuy
Nobody Special

What do you make of that development?

JDGA · Post Post #127 (ISO) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:01 pm

Right, so blue's shoving itself with the help of

my minions

everyone else, so I'll drop this one on red which could do with the assistance.

JasonWazza

, go!

yabbaguy · Post Post #128 (ISO) » Sun Sep 29, 2013 4:28 pm

JasonWazza

This is for $5,000 on red, and THAT would put it on the doorstep of said gigantic pay jumps.

Jason, fire when ready!

JasonWazza · Post Post #129 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 1:42 am

1-0-3-2-4

yabbaguy · Post Post #130 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:36 am

I'm also assuming Jason thinks that AND wants JDGA to win, so I'll assume he's picking optimally here.

Unlock where you think that 4 is...

*sphere unlocks*

JasonWazza

...and now show us that 4.

*lid lifts*

JasonWazza

*audience groans, set flashes gray*

Ohhhh, bushka! [/okeefe] I just

knew

that was gonna happen. This spheres have a knack for a practical joke almost every game. Ugh.

$50,000 vanishes from red.

JasonWazza

Well, just like good old days, we're following that duplicated 1 with a golden sphere drop, coincidentally.

It's 4-5-2, and we want another red down. Let's see...

*unlocks sphere*

*opens it up*

*mixed reactions, applause after a pause*

That's... not blue at least!

JerryArr
Mist7676

Cheery Dog
bird1111
jmj3000

IceGuy
Nobody Special

The target of 1 returns, should've worked, didn't. Find someone who can make it work!

JDGA · Post Post #131 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:38 am

Not too sure if I like the blank spheres for the ones that were skipped by 4s. Oh well,

Cheery Dog

, please boost my money tree a little. It's still kinda really lacking...

yabbaguy · Post Post #132 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:45 am

I was taking them down from the rack and setting them aside, but I'll put them back if you'd like.

Spoiler: How's That?

Meanwhile,

Cheery Dog

Cheery Dog, a chance for you to boost green up to $4,000. Can YOU beat that 1?

JDGA · Post Post #133 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:50 am

Leaving them blank marks the inexorable progress of the game. Keeping them in place looks nicer overall though since there aren't any .black spots standing out and drawin attention to themselves.

yabbaguy · Post Post #134 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:54 am

Inexorable except that you can quasi-control which ones stay by aligning the 4s correctly.

Cheery Dog · Post Post #135 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 11:53 am

Far left

yabbaguy · Post Post #136 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:55 pm

randomizing secondary pick...

Original Roll String: 1d4

1 4-Sided Dice: (2) = 2

Cheery Dog · Post Post #137 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 2:59 pm

*remind self to read more rules*

yabbaguy · Post Post #138 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:15 pm

Of course, we'll see if we actually

need

that backup pick...

Cheery Dog

*Cheery Dog quietly opens up the sphere*

Cheery Dog

*audience cheers, set flashes green*

Wow!!!

I just wish you'd manually picked your backup, because you can't win a Line Jump if you don't handpick them both.

Meanwhile, we had a 1, can we improve on this target further?

Cheery Dog

*sphere opens up*

Cheery Dog

*more cheering*

Bullseye!

Cheery Dog

JerryArr
Mist7676

bird1111
jmj3000

IceGuy
Nobody Special

Huge turnaround! Now to get more money you just have to avoid - wait...

...you haven't found any of

those

this game, right?

Cheery Dog · Post Post #139 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:45 pm

I probably would have selected the 3 (number 5/far right) as my secondary, so I'm fine with that result of me not paying attention.

yabbaguy · Post Post #140 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 3:48 pm

Been there and done things like that - including that sigh of relief after.

JDGA · Post Post #141 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:05 pm

yayyyyyyyy RNG did I mention I love you? I mean I know it's a love-hate relationship sometimes and absurdly dom-sub all the time, but still!
Uhhh, yes. Right.

bird1111

, although I don't know it he's going to show up to pick his spheres. (If not, maybe the RNG will be friendly again?)

bird1111 · Post Post #142 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:22 pm

I'm around.

Second

than

Fourth

yabbaguy · Post Post #143 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 4:48 pm

*darts backstage to look for bird1111*

*bird1111 pops back in the other entrance*

"Hello?"

*I pop back on to see a sphere unlocked already*

bird1111

Wait you... it... I...

ok. go on.

*some shake their head and chuckle, meanwhile, bird flips up the lid*

bird1111

*audience groans audibly, set goes devoid of color*

And that's what I was trying apparently not-subtly-enough to refer to. Going 14 picks without crashing into a 0 surely is a record though.

*some applause*

bird1111

Oops!

---

Let's see what's next to drop... staying away from the blues is most important right now.

*lifts the lid*

*applause*

Man, green just got a lot more uuuuuuuugly after that round.

JerryArr
Mist7676

jmj3000

IceGuy
Nobody Special

How's that for contrast? 4/0 followed by a 0.

Where does

this

target go now? Are you gunning after the big blue sums, or do you need to boost those lower colors first?

JDGA · Post Post #144 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:11 pm

Nyehhhhhhhh
ehhhhhhhhh

IceGuy

, go!

yabbaguy · Post Post #145 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 5:20 pm

IceGuy

{$15,000}

[$60,000][$200,000]

There's the stakes. IceGuy. Just avoid the brick* and we've got big money on blue, en route perhaps to the biggest prize we've ever given away.

Fire away.

^{*brick = 0. Certainly with the font, it looks like a brick standing on its end, yeah?}

IceGuy · Post Post #146 (ISO) » Mon Sep 30, 2013 9:51 pm

The pressure...

2 then 4.

yabbaguy · Post Post #147 (ISO) » Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:16 am

*latch unlocks*

IceGuy

...

...

*here it comes! ...*

IceGuy

*audience cheers, set flashes blue*

And what a brilliantly low sphere it is!

$60,000 on the blue sector now. You're one away from putting it all the way to the top!

IceGuy

---

But now...

...the question remains whether blue will

stay

put. If this next sphere isn't blue, your odds of winning the $60K... or more... increase to 25%.

Shall we find out?

*rhythmic clapping, I unlock a sphere*

*and open it up...*

*more cheering*

Both stay!

JerryArr
Mist7676

jmj3000

Nobody Special

*I look over to see Nobody Special fidgeting like the dickens*

No kidding he's nervous!

You've got an interesting target of 1. You've got the obvious $200,000 staring you in the face, and now that you haven't run into a blue for 9 turns, it's starting to loom larger and larger. But you do have two other colors, and the fact remains that you've only got a 1/4 chance of winning blue's hefty sum of cash.

How are you going to play it?

JDGA · Post Post #148 (ISO) » Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:26 am

JerryArr

, apparently red likes to remain rubbish even when it's got two wins. Can you bump that up to three to make it slightly more reasonable?

yabbaguy · Post Post #149 (ISO) » Tue Oct 01, 2013 6:30 am

JerryArr

Three, and maybe four if Mist7676 produces as well! $20,000 would be

a lot

more reasonable.

Step 1, beat the 1 for $5,000. Jerry, your spheres please?