Author: Ingo Althofer
Date: 07:15:35 03/04/05
Dear Theo, thanks for your nice posting, but ... > Subject: Ein Stein Wuerfelt nicht (One stone doesn't throw dice) > Posted by Theo van der Storm (Profile) on March 03, 2005 at 16:22:45: > > It was good fun. > Gerd tought me the game. We played the game quickly. > After only a few games he didn't seem to stand a chance, > eventhough dice are involved. I beat the shit out of him. > Gerd was such a good loser that he called me "profi" (pro) > and now I feel guilty... Until here, everything is fine. (Perhaps the translation of the game's title to English would be a bit more precise by writing "A single stone does not throw dice".) But now you write something that cries for a revenge ;-) > By the way, I discarded Ingo Althöfer's strategic advice > - as explained by Gerd and others - right away and played my own strategy. You must have had a bandwaggon full of luck with the dice. (The same had Dan Wulff in Paderborn against me...) So, I challenge you for a demonstration game, right here in the public CCC forum. Please, allow me for the first move, because I give you my starting position in advance. Here it comes: 1 6 3 - - 5 2 - - - 4 - - - x - - - x x - - x x x (The diagram is seen best with constant-width font.) How will we roll the dice? Let's do it artificially: We take the count of seconds in the "ccc-clock", modulo 6. Here mod=1 means 1, mod=2 means 2, ..., mod=0 means 6. So, for instance 16:22:45 is 45(mod6)=3 mod6, so a "3". In your reply you may fill the "x"-es with your numbers, and the second-counter of your message will give me the first roll of my dice. Ok? Ingo. PS: When you win this game, you get a free (small) glass copy of the game.
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