> Is anyone else finding that the first player always wins? On July 11, James Hazelton wrote: > I have noticed a few... I don't want to call them "problems," > per se. For one, I have noticed that the player who goes > first almost always wins. This has gotten to the point that > we don't keep score of wins unless the player wins when he > doesn't go first. Winning when you do go first is entirely > expected. This isn't merely a game fault, however. It's > become a full-fledged curse! There have been not one, but two > occasions when a player who went second is about to win; all > he has to do is tip and hop. He tips, sees the colour, hops, > and declares victory. However, the colour he just saw was > wrong! He loses and the player who went first wins. Here's > the kicker, though. In one of these incidents, the > tip-hopping player had a friend looking over his shoulder. > They both saw the colour and were both surprised to see that > it was wrong. The only conclusion that we can come up with is > that the game is cursed to foil the player going second. It > should be noted that the first-player is never foiled by > this. Has anyone else found that the first-player has a > distinct advantage? Which is why I was watching for such a thing. 3 out of five first player wins didn't seem out of whack to me...