(O)PTIMIZE Reloaded: StrangerCoug's game!

[DiplomatDC]

Brief History of DiplomatDC's picks

5 games ago: 18th to pick, Target 3, Picked 1
4 games ago: 16th to pick, Target 2, Picked 2
3 games ago: 13th to pick, Target 2, Picked 1
2 games ago: 18th to pick, Target 3, Picked 0
1 game ago: 17th to pick, Target 2, Picked 3 - Selected sector collapsed anyway
Now: 11th to pick, Target 3
Well, at least it was nice to get picked earlier, but another 3? Jeez. Hope I can break the trend of bombing out on 3 by breaking the streak of forever picking more rightwards.

Leftmost

[DiplomatDC]

If it matters, second pick is second from the left

[Nobody Special]

*fidgets impatiently*

[yabbaguy]

DiplomatDC

*DC lifts up the lid quickly*

DiplomatDC

*everyone cheers, surprising DiplomatDC out of his pessimistic fog, everything turns violet*

THAT'S why you keep getting high targets, DC. We knew you'd get there eventually. Ultraviolet with two 4s and a 0 is almost entirely doing the work on its own as it advances to $10,000.

Well guess what DC, it matters...

DiplomatDC

This is the

fifth

4 at this point (DC was 12th to pick in fact), but we haven't turned the 4/0 yet...

...

Is this the one?

*DC turns up the lid more expectantly this time*

DiplomatDC

*audience groans the loudest it ever has after any backup pick*

Not the one, or the zero.

*rimshot...audience catches on and groans even more*

DiplomatDC

Drench
Mist7676

xtopherusD
bird1111

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug

D3f3nd3r

The only way you could've been more perfect is if you made puzzledan's 1 a winner back at turn 3.

Everybody

else has shown you 0s or winners, it's near-perfection.

*oooohs, cheers from everyone*

Well, maybe we'll topple jmj3000's record of

six 4s

so far in the Reloaded era. We're very likely to tie it. You'll want to find that or a 0 with this target.

[Xalxe]

Oh come ON

Mist

!

[DiplomatDC]

[yabbaguy]

Mist7676

Mist's in the same boat, challenged often, hasn't found a 4 yet in the Reloaded era.

Wherever that psychic energy has gone, we need it now please. That would make 3 wins and $5,000 on red.

[Mist7676]

The psychic energy is probably somewhere in Guam by now.

But we can do without it, right? Let's go

4th from the left and 1st from the left

[Prof Fridays]

This is probably the most entertaining game show I have ever watched (er, read?). I actually laughed out loud at points. It was awkward because I was in my economics class, haha.

Keep up the good work, haha!

[Prof Fridays]

Also, /in!

[Mist7676]

You've joined a great game then Prof ;D

[yabbaguy]

Thank you Prof, that means a lot! And I've added you to the list.

Mist7676

*Mist flips the lid*

Mist7676

*loud groans, set flashes gray*

Ooooooooh. That 3 would've been much better with JerryArr's 0, then red would've been played perfectly. So much for red being Xalxe's favorite color now. xD

Mist7676

Picking backwards would've yielded

another

4/3.

*spotlights illuminate golden spheres*

I forgot about you golden spheres again!

(5)

(4)

(2)

(2)

Red's now just all around bad. The $5,000 max is paling in comparison to all three of those other colors. Let's see if we can find another one in...boy I have to count these off again...this one.

*snaps the lock, the color of the latch indicates that it's been broken*

*flips the lid*

*audience cheers*

Yeah, everyone's cheering it now. We know where red stands.

Drench

xtopherusD
bird1111

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug

D3f3nd3r

Nobody's invincible in this game. Sooner or later, if you get that many 3s from the spheres, you're surely gonna have a hiccup like that eventually. The fact that you're still 3 for 5 against that smelly target is astounding.

Now for the

sixth

time this game, please place that 3.

[Nobody Special]

Nobody's invincible in this game.

I hope you remember that after Xalxe's finished.

[Xalxe]

What the cocks

can I PLEASE get another number I am so SICK of 3s

um

fuck I don't even know

Drench

, are you still alive?

[yabbaguy]

Drench

{$2,000}

[$5,000]

Perhaps this will resuscitate him. In any event, this game needs to be revived after this deluge of bad targets. However, red has one last shot and it rests on the guy who got a 4 last game.

[yabbaguy]

And the dice will determine the ultimate fate of red, it seems...

Original Roll String: 5d5 (STATIC)

5 5-Sided Dice: (3, 1, 5, 4, 5) = 18

[yabbaguy]

I swear on my honor that was 3 then 1 selected, then I was dumb and edited the post to make it OOC. Silly yabb.

[yabbaguy]

Drench

*lid comes up*

Drench

*everyone groans, Xalxe looks exasperated, set flashes grayscale*

(meanwhile the Internet starts for calling for an investigation of the dice)

Not again! ._.

Three 3s and a 4 (and a 0) from red, but its 4 golden spheres will now only be worth $2,000.

Drench

*spotlights shine on golden spheres, I walk over*

(4)

(4)

(2)

(2)

Two pair makes a nice poker hand, but we're gonna break one of them now. Red would be great, blue not at all.

*cracks the lock*

*swings the lid up*

*audience oohs, applause*

Just as we enter a three color game, the probabilities begin to even out as green and its tricky $40,000 promise take a third hit.

xtopherusD
bird1111

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug

D3f3nd3r

Three color game, which is bad news since your favorite sectors for those 3s is closed for business.

*hangs a tacky CLOSED sign on Drench's sphere rack with a Will Return clock on it*

But we have to play on as if red isn't going to be your fate. UV offers the best prize for one win, blue the best for two or maybe THREE, and green offers neither but is most likely to be your destiny at present.

Surely they can't all have 3s, right? We have to play on under that assumption too.

[Xalxe]

I don't even frickin know at this point

D3f3nd3r

, why not?

[yabbaguy]

D3f3nd3r

*money chyrons load in*

{$10,000}

[$25,000]

D3f3nd3r, you're the fourth person in a row to get a target of 3. You got a 4/3 after CJMiller's game

ended

last game. Now, if you hit a 4...

...and preferably NOT a 3.

*laughter from everyone*

...ultraviolet goes to $25,000, which could start a huge momentum surge.

[swyellowtail]

Watch, he's gonna get a 3/4 just to spite everyone.

[D3f3nd3r]

Fourth, then third.

[swyellowtail]

...actually, with that statement, I wouldn't be surprised if he got what he said.

[yabbaguy]

Well he's

picked

4/3 as you've surely seen so...well, let's see.

Let's see if the $25K longshot cashes in.

D3f3nd3r

*flip*

D3f3nd3r

*gasps from the crowd, Xalxe exhales at last, the lighting washes out all the color*

Wow! With two 4s and two 0s, UV has been destined for $10,000

since turn 3

when puzzledan's 1 turned up a loser. Xalxe has done very well to give everyone in that sector high targets in light of that fact.

D3f3nd3r

*golden spheres illuminate, I walk over*

(4)

(3)

(2)

(2)

There are only two colors left. Let's see if this golden sphere is informative or nothing but dramatic.

*click*

*here it comes!*

*audience cheers*

Categorically the best possible result now. No color is going to be cheaper than red.

xtopherusD
bird1111

Cheery Dog
KingdomAces
StrangerCoug

I'm wondering if your sub-objective has been to reduce the headache you've been facing this whole game. If so, you've handily accomplished that - you're down to 2 colors and the best target possible just with that one visit.

Big possibilities in both remaining colors. Each has beaten a target of 3 to stay on the map thus far. Which one are you going to seek out?

[Xalxe]

fuck it

Cheery Dog

let's go