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From: desj@brahms.BERKELEY.EDU (David desJardins)
Newsgroups: net.games
Subject: Re: Scotland Yard
Message-ID: <11938@ucbvax.BERKELEY.EDU>
Date: Thu, 20-Feb-86 05:04:35 EST
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Summary: Advantage for Detectives?

In article <8400006@hpcnoe.UUCP> jeff@hpcnoe.UUCP writes:
>|     You might think that with those advantages, Mr. X would  get
>|away  all  the  time.  Not so.  
>
>True, at first.  There are certain strategies which seem to give
>Mr. X an advantage.  But since people don't play Mr. X that often,
>these strategies are not discovered.  Detective skills, however,
>seem to hone up fast since you get to play them more often.

   Can we have some discussion of these strategies?  I have played
several one-on-one games as detectives against my brother playing
Mr. X, and I nearly always seem to win.  Would anyone who really
thinks the game is balanced like to play against my detectives via
net mail?

   -- David desJardins