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Title: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: werothegreat on July 16, 2017, 04:28:37 pm
Question I found on reddit that I felt might be appropriate:  You are killed and Death lets you choose a game to challenge him at for another chance at life. What game do you choose?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6nlotz/you_are_killed_and_death_lets_you_choose_a_game/
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Burning Skull on July 16, 2017, 06:18:00 pm
The choice is obvious: a Dominion game with Possession and Donate
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Deadlock39 on July 16, 2017, 08:29:44 pm
The choice is obvious: a Dominion game with Possession and Donate

Make sure you add Lurker too.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: pingpongsam on July 16, 2017, 08:56:21 pm
Didn't read the Reddit but I suspect a quarter flip has to be towards the top giving clean 50% odds of winning.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: drsteelhammer on July 16, 2017, 10:23:09 pm
Rebuild mirror, atleast it'll be over quickly
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: pacovf on July 16, 2017, 10:32:10 pm
(https://vignette3.wikia.nocookie.net/oots/images/9/99/OOTS0718.gif/revision/latest?cb=20160830212329)
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Jack Rudd on July 17, 2017, 07:41:37 am
Do I have to win, or do I just have to not lose? Because if the latter, I'll pick noughts and crosses.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Haddock on July 17, 2017, 08:45:39 am
(https://imgs.xkcd.com/comics/ultimate_game.png)
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Witherweaver on July 17, 2017, 01:10:53 pm
Obligatory:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PA5ryowAyLk
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: DG on July 17, 2017, 01:49:01 pm
I reckon that the death is slacking off here and having some fun instead of doing his job. No way is he going to slack off and play big money, so you just need to give him a Dominion kingdom with a highly complex engine with no trashing, that can't score big in the endgame and is quite likely to stall out. He's bound to go for it, especially if he can have a procession of death carts.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: MatthewCA on July 29, 2017, 03:20:45 pm
Question I found on reddit that I felt might be appropriate:  You are killed and Death lets you choose a game to challenge him at for another chance at life. What game do you choose?

https://www.reddit.com/r/AskReddit/comments/6nlotz/you_are_killed_and_death_lets_you_choose_a_game/

Just skimmed through it, almost died laughing at this
 
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NasSon53 • 13d
Basketball 1) That's my thing 2) Dude's literally all bones. I'm posting him up all day

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Budster650 • 12d
Worst case scenario: you get dunked on by a fucking skeleton. That'd be pretty rad.

If I was in this scenario however, I'd for sure choose Russian Roulette.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Asper on August 01, 2017, 07:11:15 am
Obviously the rules aren't clear enough here. Is death considered older than me for starting player considerations? Do I have to win, keep him from winning, or both? In the first case, play a dumb cooperative educational game that's trivial to win even if death tries to sabotage it. In the second case, MatthewCA made a good suggestion. The third case depends on death's skill and tendency to cheat. If he's great at games but doesn't cheat, pick a game that's got poor rules and enables cheating a lot. If he cheats or can easily look through you cheating and sucks at games, which I guess is unlikely, pick the complex game you're best at. If he's greaat at games and you can't cheat, go back to the coin toss.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: teamlyle on August 01, 2017, 08:47:39 am
What about Cheat Dominion? You can cheat, and if you get caught you have to put it back and gain 2 curses and 2 ruins. Me and my IRL friends have never gone back to regular Dominion...
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: LastFootnote on August 01, 2017, 08:58:39 am
Step-on-feet? (http://forum.dominionstrategy.com/index.php?topic=5799.msg150131#msg150131)
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: ashersky on August 01, 2017, 01:53:26 pm
Once Death mentions the game, don't you automatically win?
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: faust on August 02, 2017, 04:31:18 am
What about Cheat Dominion? You can cheat, and if you get caught you have to put it back and gain 2 curses and 2 ruins. Me and my IRL friends have never gone back to regular Dominion...
I don't always cheat, but when I do, I have a Watchtower in hand.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: Awaclus on August 02, 2017, 05:34:51 am
What about Cheat Dominion? You can cheat, and if you get caught you have to put it back and gain 2 curses and 2 ruins. Me and my IRL friends have never gone back to regular Dominion...
I don't always cheat, but when I do, I have a Watchtower in hand.

Trader + Feodum is a pretty OP combo too. As soon as you get the Trader in hand, you can just cheat ten times and you immediately have 13 point Feoda.
Title: Re: You die, and Death lets you pick a game to play to win your life back. Which?
Post by: J Reggie on August 02, 2017, 10:48:12 am
What about Cheat Dominion? You can cheat, and if you get caught you have to put it back and gain 2 curses and 2 ruins. Me and my IRL friends have never gone back to regular Dominion...
I don't always cheat, but when I do, I have a Watchtower in hand.

Trader + Feodum is a pretty OP combo too. As soon as you get the Trader in hand, you can just cheat ten times and you immediately have 13 point Feoda.

And the best part is that if your friends catch on and just allow you to cheat so you can't pull off that combo, you can just cheat by gaining the entire silver pile!