Subj : Re: WOW!
To   : Exodus
From : Atreyu
Date : Thu Nov 27 2025 00:11:27

On 26 Nov 25  15:05:33, Exodus said the following to Atreyu:

E> I hear that.  I can't even stand playing for more than 1/2 hour or so.  If 
E> it's more than that, it must be a gem.

Me neither but lately I've been binge-playing Hoyle 3 on DOS, only because the
Backgammon game portion is addicting... well to me anyway... in that it
either has a bug, an exploit or just a case of lazy programming just like all 
those impossible NES-game-bosses that got so easy once you saw the patterns.

The way it tries to win against you is by manipulating the dice roll... Dice
rolls are not random, the roll returned is only random in how many times the
computer gets a perfect roll to do something while you end up with jack-shit.

And it will magically roll perfect doubles to get itself out of whatever
merciless beating you're dishing out... all while you sit back and loudly yell
**BUUUUULLLLL SHIT** at your monitor.

It even makes the 7-11 "bingbong" doorbell sound to really taunt you... Sheer
brutality. The average game doesn't even last a few minutes.

But if you deliberately leave your pieces open to be captured in the upper
right section of the board, the computer will stop at nothing to take them.

It does this elsewhere in the game but theres "something" about that
upper-right section. Every freaking time. It will abandon any sort of logic 
and immediately focus on capturing pieces, completely ignoring any strategy 
you can use to build up your own home section so its impossible for him.

Eventually I was able to figure out how to beat this game at least 8 or 9 
times out of 10, even on the Expert setting.

Atreyu

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 * Origin: Joey, do you like movies about gladiators? (25:25/5)

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