On Jan 1, 2006, at 3:48 PM, Tome Gnome wrote:
My query is this: I am uncertain if it is me, or what, but I have
lost every game of IceTowers my partner and I have played. She
alleges, and I believe her, that she has no strategy other than
"putting pieces on other pieces," but I haven't been able to
conceptualize a strategy myself. I feel like I must be missing
something obvious: does anyone have any advice vis-a-vis IceTowers
and how I can consistently devestate the person I love playing it?
My general strategy, which seems to work well, is this: Try to make
as many towers as possible that contain exactly two of your own
pieces, preferably of different sizes. Then, whenever one such tower
gets capped by another player, simply mine one of your pieces out and
put it onto another tower that has only one of your pieces. Continue
this pattern indefinitely. :-)
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