An unusual way to win
Jan. 14th, 2010 09:07 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
pyesetzToday I won a game of Clue, but in a most unusual way.
Like most members of my household, I generally don't like playing Clue because Wifey almost always wins. She is very good at keeping partial logic-entailments in her head, like "If Betty is taller than Susie and Susie is taller than Lucy and Lucy is taller than Betty, then what is the price of oranges in Moscow?" I hate those.
It seems that the particular thing I did that won the game for me today was a move that was so mind-bogglingly stupid, it caused all the other players to disqualify themselves, leaving me as the winner-by-default. I realize that this sounds like a plot for Fairly Oddparents, but hear me out.
At one point I landed in a room that I didn't particularly want to be in (but in Clue you don't get complete freedom of choice in such matters). So I copied a trick that Wifey often uses, making a "suggestion" that involved a Location and a Weapon whose cards I held in my own paw, plus a Murderer that everyone else had been using in their suggestions (this often-but-not-always indicates that other players think that person is the actual murderer). No one could show a card to prove that my suggestion was wrong, so I concluded that the Murderer in question was the actual murderer.
It turned out that everyone else thought the choice of Murderer was a foregone conclusion by that point in the game (okay, I'm a little slow), so obviously what my turn proved was that the Weapon that I had suggested was the actual murder weapon. Each of them in turn made an "accusation" involving the actual Murderer, the wrong Weapon, and then different choices of Location. But they were all wrong, so I won by default, even though I had no idea what the actual Weapon and Location were.
Part of what made this work was that I have formed the habit of *always* showing a Location card when someone presents to me a suggestion where I have both the Location and Weapon cards, so throughout the game in question I had never actually shown anyone that Weapon card.
I shall have to remember to try this again someday.
Like most members of my household, I generally don't like playing Clue because Wifey almost always wins. She is very good at keeping partial logic-entailments in her head, like "If Betty is taller than Susie and Susie is taller than Lucy and Lucy is taller than Betty, then what is the price of oranges in Moscow?" I hate those.
It seems that the particular thing I did that won the game for me today was a move that was so mind-bogglingly stupid, it caused all the other players to disqualify themselves, leaving me as the winner-by-default. I realize that this sounds like a plot for Fairly Oddparents, but hear me out.
At one point I landed in a room that I didn't particularly want to be in (but in Clue you don't get complete freedom of choice in such matters). So I copied a trick that Wifey often uses, making a "suggestion" that involved a Location and a Weapon whose cards I held in my own paw, plus a Murderer that everyone else had been using in their suggestions (this often-but-not-always indicates that other players think that person is the actual murderer). No one could show a card to prove that my suggestion was wrong, so I concluded that the Murderer in question was the actual murderer.
It turned out that everyone else thought the choice of Murderer was a foregone conclusion by that point in the game (okay, I'm a little slow), so obviously what my turn proved was that the Weapon that I had suggested was the actual murder weapon. Each of them in turn made an "accusation" involving the actual Murderer, the wrong Weapon, and then different choices of Location. But they were all wrong, so I won by default, even though I had no idea what the actual Weapon and Location were.
Part of what made this work was that I have formed the habit of *always* showing a Location card when someone presents to me a suggestion where I have both the Location and Weapon cards, so throughout the game in question I had never actually shown anyone that Weapon card.
I shall have to remember to try this again someday.
