(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

[jmj3000]

puzzledan

, can you solve the puzzle of the spheres?

[puzzledan]

Rushs back from toilet trips up on the stage Im ok everyone
Gl jmj may the force of the puzzles shine down on me and you as I say

2 and 4

Make it happen Yabba crosses fingers

[yabbaguy]

puzzledan

Four picks, and all four colors now have had a turn. We're splitting this up pretty evenly so far.

*puzzledan unlocks sphere #2*

puzzledan

*and opens it up*

puzzledan

*everyone cheers*

Puzzle solved!

*more cheering*

Now, we can't just leave jmj with a target of 4, that wouldn't be fair. Instead of making our second sphere this round a

golden

sphere, we're going to instead open up another sphere from puzzledan's rack, and make

that

selection your new target. No money at stake, we're just trying to improve the odds.

puzzledan...

puzzledan

...you picked even stevens, is sphere #4 a 0?

*puzzledan hastily flings up the lid*

puzzledan

*siren goes off, everyone cheers again*

puzzledan, if you can now pick your 1, 2, and 3 spheres in ascending order (or call out the order), you will jump the line and be in the next game of Optimize! You have 24 hours from this post to select.

What a selection that is! We'll keep the lids shut for now whilst puzzledan contemplates that decision, meanwhile jmj's red sector comes out of nowhere and on the board!

DiplomatDC
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

JerryArr
Mist7676
animorpherv1
Xalxe

orcinus_theoriginal
xtopherusD
bird1111
Feirei

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug
jmj3000

Can't ask for better than that.

jmj, while the side-game goes on, you have a huge break and a huge decision here. Where does that beautiful target of 0 go?

[puzzledan]

HOLY SMOKES maybe I should trip up more wow
Right 1 4 2 0 3 Make it happen Yabba

Quick question if someone else does the same thing what happens then do they go behind me then

[xtopherusD]

Quick question if someone else does the same thing what happens then do they go behind me then

Here. They go behind you, yeah.

[yabbaguy]

So the 1's on the far left...

puzzledan

*opens*

puzzledan

*buzzer, audience awws*

puzzledan

2 was correct though! You nearly had it!

[JDGA]

*applause from the gallery*

[jmj3000]

Xalxe

, let's get me some money on green so I can at least have a safety net.

[yabbaguy]

Xalxe

Xalxe, looks like you're in the insurance business today. Hopefully you aren't burnt out from picking a 4/0 and a 3 in the previous games! Have at it.

[Xalxe]

You know, at one time I considered going into the financial sector, but then I lost interest.

*dodges hook*

4th then 3rd

[Tragedy]

No Xalxe, go for the 1!

[yabbaguy]

Xalxe

*Xalxe opens up the sphere*

Xalxe

*audience cheers, set flashes green*

Whoa! Xalxe's on fire!

*stagehand bolts out with the extinguisher, everyone yells at him in vain as he sprays Xalxe needlessly with the foam*

You're supposed to use fire

blankets

on people anyway!

*walks over to Xalxe and wipes the foam off of his shirt and his spheres, talks meanwhile*

So Xalxe... after you... get all this stuff... off of you... we need... a new target.

*pats back, all the foam is off now*

Xalxe

*Xalxe sweeps some extinguisher foam off the lid, then lifts it*

Xalxe

*audience, slightly disappointed, applauds*

So the target still advances. But hey, now we can appreciate Xalxe's appreciated sphere-picking value.

*.......rimshot, groan*

Xalxe

DiplomatDC
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

JerryArr
Mist7676
animorpherv1

orcinus_theoriginal
xtopherusD
bird1111
Feirei

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug
jmj3000

So far there's only been one contest, that was JasonWazza's blue 2 which you won with. The others have been 4s and 0s, nothing you could do on any of those.

First target of 1 this game, who gets it?

[jmj3000]

I'm going to go with myself actually

Let's see here. I was born on the 15th day of the month, and its been 5 months since my birthday. I have also won 5 $100 scratch off prizes since then on $5 tickets. Let's go with

5th, then 1st

.

[Xalxe]

When you open a sphere with a 5 inside I'll be shocked.

[Tragedy]

I totally bet that it'll be higher than a 2!

[yabbaguy]

jmj3000

You're getting

something

guaranteed if this 60% shot works out. If you can win $500 literally, I can't see why you couldn't win more than $500 virtually though.

But let's see...

*walks over to jmj's spheres and unlocks sphere 5*

jmj3000

Are we in the money now?

*whisks open the lid*

jmj3000

*audience cheers loudly, jmj's pretty pleased with the development*

THREE fours in a row! Easy game!

Well... those golden spheres are feeling pretty neglected over there. That's now three we've skipped over and counting! Instead, we're cracking open another one of your spheres, and now we're going to the left end of the rack.

*sphere #1 unlocks*

jmj3000

How influential is

this

4 in our game?

*lid lifts*

jmj3000

*siren goes off, audience goes ballistic, but then wonders what the heck is going to happen next*

Oh geez...

jmj3000

Well, we didn't think that would actually be a threat. But now there's just a 1/6 chance of jmj3000 winning a queue jump for the

next

game of Optimize too! What chaos!

*lawyers rush up on stage now and start blaming me, the producer, for this lack of oversight*

AGH STOP INVADING THE STAGE, OKAY, WE'LL BE RIGHT BACK AFTER THIS COMMERCIAL!!! AHH!!!

*theme plays and audience cheers as cameras get a close-up of me getting verbally abused by the legal staff*

I've made a mistake, I don't think two games to jmj3000 in a row, if awarded, would be enjoyable. I'll probably discontinue having contenders pick spheres. But I probably should do

something

if he nails all five spheres. Hmm. Thoughts?

[animorpherv1]

Give him the game after the next one.

[Cheery Dog]

*if you play as contender, you must wait 4 games before becoming contender again. If you win a Jump sooner, you will get your free game after this cool-down period expires.

You're forgetting this part of the linejump ruleset.

But I think the contender shouldn't have their own set of spheres unless you don't have enough other people

[xtopherusD]

Or give them something ridiculously overpowered, like all the colours going to UV values

[jmj3000]

Honestly, the rules state waiting 4 games before I can play again if I win a line jump.

IF

I win the line jump, double it for me please, and make it 8 games.

Now, as to my order... I just beat the odds and got a 4/0, lets see if I can really bowl the odds over.

My order is:

0 1 2 3 4

[xtopherusD]

lets see if I can really bowl the odds over.

My order is:

0 1 2 3 4

I thought we already talked about this, jmj.

[yabbaguy]

*theme plays, sphere flies into logo*

*virtual sphere opens up with a shot of jmj's remaining spheres*

jmj3000

Welcome back! Well, we've had a predicament. Or do we? If jmj has now called out the order of his three remaining spheres, 1-2-3, he might well just have to get a free game in 8 like he said. Rules are rules, unfortunately.

What's the order jmj?

My order is:

0 1 2 3 4

jmj3000

*spheres open up*

jmj3000

*buzzer, audience laughs as I breathe a sigh of relief*

THAT was 3-2-1 as well! Whoa, that was close again!

And let's never do that again! At least we got away with it legitimately.

DiplomatDC
D3f3nd3r
IceGuy
Nobody Special

JerryArr
Mist7676
animorpherv1

orcinus_theoriginal
xtopherusD
bird1111
Feirei

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug

Every color's one step up. You've got quite the choice ahead as

another

0 comes your way! Where's

this

target going?

[jmj3000]

Feirei

, let's see if you get a chance at a line jump.

[yabbaguy]

Feirei

*looks at queue*

1. jmj3000

2. Feirei

[...]

*laughter from everyone, I grin at jmj*

C'mon Feirei, please tell me you've got a 4/0 too. That'd be awesome and hysterical.

[Tragedy]

Poor Fei-fei. :c

FOR THE 3RD!