red wins the toss and takes the only waterfall number outside of the blocked waterfall regions
blue takes a 6-5-9 wood, brick, stone
orange takes very good positions, and looks best placed among the three.
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we have just witnessed the absolute meaning of the phrase "running away with the game"
this is taking the art of thumping others to a whole new level.
after a very crucial first extension (at the lower right waterfall) the game followed the textbook, the unnamedplayer doing just the right things...
its these games which start so small and end so big that life's all about ravi, you never know when its your day, when its your game, and it happens when you least expect it, and when it does, you hardly believe your eyes.
we have had such a victory here, luck did not favor us, and nothing happened in the game that turned it around, or flipped it 180 degrees, just the small things.. all the small things going right, like with middle earth at the end of the third age.
the unnamedplayer gains 20 points and moves on to 71.
and that too on an evening, of one of the landmark days of life, after a very very jaded afternoon.
Good one, Geoffrey. You still took good position in the beginning. Somehow I remember, me also getting hammered in a couple of games in the Doughnut of Plenty by you. This might just be your 2010 find of the year. Analyzing the map breezily, I am surprised that if red started the placement 8-9-10 of the outside waterfall, the 2nd placement is a disaster (I assume it's a 5-9-2). Wonder why is that a strategy? But nevertheless, history books are written by winners - so I will stop my analysis for the losing side. Over & out
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