Chapter 1107 – #263_National Holidays(4) – DeepL
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Amelia, who spends the most time with Xiu since she’s been in office, abstains from judging and is left to judge with Xiu, and the teams are naturally divided.
Sharon, Eloa – Team Lifetime Herbal Medicine.
The Twins, Leroy- The Young Ladies.
Linnaeus, Dorothy- Team Gaea Tianxun.
This is what happened.
It’s a lighthearted wager, but as soon as you get into the game, the mood turns serious.
It’s a favorite folk game for holidays because of its simple rules, but if you dig deep enough, you’ll find that it’s also been used as a form of gambling.
This means that it’s a board game with a lot of different strategies and tricks up its sleeve.
After a game of rock-paper-scissors, the winner is the Life Hanbang team.
Sharon whispered to Eloah, who held the flesh with a frown.
“Oh, we’re at a disadvantage if we go first…. If it’s not the Duke, please aim for Yuk. It’s best if you get Mo, and we only need a dog and a girl, right?”
“Didn’t you say that dog and girl are higher numbers than dao?”
“No. If you calculate the probability in a standalone run without considering the shape of the hex, the probability is as follows.”
Tens: 18.75
Horses: 6.25
Dog: 37.5
Girl: 25
Six: 6.25
Hair: 6.25
“But isn’t a hexagon a cylinder cut in half? If you calculate the rotational motion and the curvature of the hexagon, it’s roughly….”
Dorsum: 10.79
Back: 3.6
Dog: 33.89
Girl: 35.49
Hex: 13.94
Mo: 2.29%.
“, so Dogs and Gulls are dangerous players. We can send our most dangerous player to safety with the ‘Dog’ and then try to catch the other team that beat us to the punch.”
“I see! Ms. Sharon. That’s great.”
“Ahem! So there’s also the tactic of putting your horse on the first road and then escaping right onto the back road!”
“I see. Then I’ll aim for the road.”
-Snap!
The chopsticks were thrown.
“Huh?”
“Oh?”
“Hmm?”
The Goddess of Luck smiled at Eloa.
From the beginning, Mo, Mo, Yuk, Girl.
Moe and Yuk follow the keeper rule, so they make the best first turn, carrying two horses on their backs and taking the shortest route through the center intersection.
“Ooohhhh!!! You did great, Duke, you’re the best!”
“Miss Sharon, maybe today is your day!”
Sharon looked around with a look that said, “How’s it going?
The twins with serious frowns, Leroy looking like the world was ending, Linnaeus standing still with a blank expression, not sure what he was thinking, and Dorothy smiling from ear to ear.
It’s a duller scene than expected, but it doesn’t change the fact that the team has the upper hand.
“I think we’ll just have to let them escape one by one.”
“Yeah, well, we can’t cross our fingers.”
You’ve lost two pieces in just one turn, so if you can get the remaining two pieces to move forward, even at a turtle’s pace, you’ve won.
“Holy crap, this is the last one!”
Sharon and Eloa, who had gained momentum in the early rounds, worked together to get the last horse to trot out.
In the meantime, the Gagua Tianxun and Young Ladies teams were faltering, only managing to get one piece out each.
“Woah, just one last one to go!”
“Miss Sharon, are you an expert in athletics?”
“Well, as good as I can be!”
At that moment, the gazes of the Ga Guochen Sun and Young Ladies teams intimately exchanged glances.
Sharon and Eloa, who had been thinking purely about winning, hadn’t considered this earlier.
In the wild three-way battle, if there was a ‘slightly favorable enemy’, the remaining two would form a tacit joint front.
At first glance, being down to one horse out of four seems like a huge advantage.
But the reality is different.
It’s the weakest piece, with no backup in the event of the worst snow, and no way to keep its opponent’s pieces in check.
As soon as the other two teams were in a position to beat Sharon up to their heart’s content, they took their tacit agreement to the water’s edge and began their overt defense.
“Huh? Odette? What are you doing here? Why are you catching my horse? You’d be better off catching the dog and pony team’s.”
“Huh? Did I? My bad.”
“You can do better next time, Odette.”
“Yes, sis.”
For example, Linne’s horse is at an intersection, and Sharon grabs it anyway.
“Dorothy, why isn’t that moving?”
“We have to let our duke go first~”
I set up shop on the inside of the intersection and wait to snipe at the team’s horses coming from the outside.
“Oops, my hand slipped!”
“Lol, wipe your hands and throw it.”
“Sis, don’t be so hard on yourself, you slipped.”
“That’s true.”
The twins and Leroux giggled and casually dropped the yuk-tuk off the cushion.
They took advantage of the “fall” rule, which states that if a paw leaves the cushion, the turn is forfeited, to stay in a good position to attack Sharon.
“No, why are you playing a new piece when you have a dog and a girl?”
“Because I just feel like it.”
“Isn’t that pretty cheesy?”
“Hmm…. That groomer?”
I even purposely placed the “dog” and “girl” pieces to give the other team a good lead to track Sharon down.
“What a coward! How dare you do something so despicable….”
Sharon was furious.
Finally, both Eloah and Sharon understood the situation.
This is no longer a one-on-one situation.
It was already a two-on-two situation.
They were going to have to take down the common line of two teams with three horses in a disadvantageous situation with only one horse.
Obviously, it wasn’t going to work.
“Kya! Two yuk mo!”
“Step on Sharon’s horse and do it again!”
“Stop! Stop! No way! How did I get there….”
Eloa took Sharon’s shaking hand and held it firmly.
“It’s okay, Miss Sharon.”
“What’s okay…. We’re going to lose this thing forever….”
“Look at the board.”
By the halfway point, the Young Ladies had gained an extra piece.
However, the Asterisks had no additional points.
“If their alliance is to survive, they must be on the same terms. If we leave them as they are, they will split up on their own.”
Indeed.
In the first place, the two teams were united in their opposition to Life Hanbang not only because Life Hanbang had an overwhelming advantage, but also because the other two teams were in a similar situation.
However, unlike the Dog and Heavenly Sun team, who focused solely on stopping the Life Herbalist team, the twins cleverly took advantage of the situation during the cooperative stopping game.
Not only did they get an extra piece, but they also got a good seat with the two remaining pieces.
But even with Eloah’s explanation, Sharon felt grim.
She had already seen what Eloa had overlooked.
“No…. Duke…. The gap is already too wide.”
“What do you mean?”
The reason why the team struggled with the timing was because there was only one word left.
To put it another way, even if the Life and Health Team and the Gua Gua Tian Sun Team were to join forces, there would be no meaningful checks and balances.
“Well, well, well, I’m too late to notice.”
“I can’t believe I thought Odile and Odette, board game geniuses, were just cute apprentice witches. Eek.”
In other words, the Young Ladies had gone from being the favorite to win the Solitaire.
There was no point in belatedly calling for a united front.
“We’re going to the assistant’s bed…!”
“Kazu!!!”
“Pew, pew!”
The Young Ladies stepped on the Gagua Tianxun team’s horse in front of me and mounted the horse that was near the nine o’clock position on the board.
With the last two horses in the pack, no one to stop them, and less than ten spaces to go to the finish line.
The Life Hanbang team was grunting and circling the track, while the Gagua Cheonsun team was sluggishly making ‘three year’ in the desperate situation.
“It’s okay, there’s still hope, because it’s not easy to get the exact number of squares to win.”
While there are many variations of the game, the rules of this version of the game are that you have to get the numbers “right” to win.
If a piece lands on the finish line, it must be a “do” and all other moves are invalid.
So it’s not uncommon for a runner to get caught four or five turns from the finish and have their horse eaten by the next runner.
“Hmm, that’s about as bad as it gets, right?”
“Don’t worry. I’ll let you through.”
“Lol, it’s a girl, it’s a girl, it’s a girl. You know? Let’s do it in one room, shall we?”
The bluffing twin knew it, and looked at the cushion more carefully than before.
“Awww, that’s too bad!”
“Why are you here, dog!”
“You stupid fool!”
“Don’t worry, you’ll get your tao next time!”
But alas, the Young Ladies’ horse was placed exactly over the start and finish line.
It was now about a 10% chance of praying for the Tao.
Then.
“Wait. What is that?”
“When did that….”
Everyone else, who had only been paying attention to the Young Ladies team up until this point, noticed.
The ‘first degree’ point.
The Gagua Tianxun team’s horse, which had achieved the ‘Third Year’ while no one was paying attention, and now had three horses on it.
“…….”
Rinne closed her eyes.
Rinne was the Shateigashira of the Yakuza.
The etymology of the Yakuza is derived from the most useless numbers in the game, eight-nine-three, and useless gamblers are the foundation of the Yakuza.
So when it comes to the physiology, strategy, and timing of gambling, we know it all, even if we don’t want to.
They understand the curvature of a bending surface, the bounce of the flesh, the center of gravity, the resistance of the air and the friction of the cushion.
Yuk is Linnaeus, and Linnaeus is Yuk, a phrase with soul.
“Whoa.”
A different kind of mu shines through in Yuk, the extreme of complete control over the extremities of the body.
The yutsu is thrown in a half-turn.
Rinne’s little finger lightly disrupts one of the yuks in mid-air as time slows to a crawl.
-Zalgrak.
The single Yuk, sprawled on its belly on the cushion, had an X carved into it.
A scream erupts.
“Ugh!”
“This is a scam!”
“Does that make sense?!!!!!!”
“The back road? This is where the back road comes from?”
The three-pointed horse at the first turn had just eaten the horse of the Young Ladies team that was waiting to escape to the finish via the back road.
It was the kind of drama you wouldn’t see if you spent your whole life gawking at a yuk-pan.
“Awww, my Lynn, she’s so pretty, she’s never been so pretty as she is today.”
“Let go.”
Dorothy hugged Linnaeus tightly and whined, while Linnaeus tried his best to keep a straight face.
And so it came to pass that Linnaeus and Dorothy were the only two people to spend the night during the holiday.
