David Wall
United Kingdom
Unspecified
Pembrokeshire
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Any comments to improve this cosmic wimpout strategy?
Rough Guide on Opting to Stop
Until Last Licks apply -
Keep the last 2 white cubes.
Throw the last remaining black cube if you’ve scored 20.
Keep the last black cube if you’ve scored 25 or more.
Throw 1 black, 1 white cube if you’ve scored 15.
Keep 1 black, 1 white cube if you’ve scored 20 or more.
Re-throw the Flaming Sun if there are 3 white cubes to be thrown with it.
Re-throw the Flaming Sun with 2 white cubes while trying to score you’re opening roll,
Throw 3 white cubes if you’ve scored 15 or less.
Keep 3 white cubes if you’ve scored 20.
Throw 1 black, 2 white cubes.
After You May Not Want To But You Must, stop as soon as you can.
A Flaming Sun is in priority order to be
1/ Used for The Flaming Sun Rule
2/ Used to clear a flash
3/ Used as a non-scoring cube, to be rerolled with one other cube to attempt to clear a flash.
4/ Re-thrown with 3 white cubes, or with 2 white cubes while attempting your opening roll.
5/ Scored as a 10.
6/ Scored as a 5.
Winning/Losing Adjustments
Winning - Keep 20 scored with 1 black, 2 white cubes remaining.
Losing - Throw 3 white cubes if scored 20.
Throw 1 black, 1 white
Throw 1 black
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Robert Voisin
United States
Lockport
New York
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I just ask myself, Am I feeling lucky
 with 1 black cube or 2 or more white cubes left to roll. Not the most sound strategy, but after many train wrecks, it is all in the dice!!!
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This is interesting. How do you derive those strategies, though?
And a couple questions:
What does "2/ Used to clear a flash" mean? At first I thought I knew what that meant, but that's what says in the next spot.
And in what cases will it be scored as a 5, if scored as a 10 overrules it?
I can see scoring it as a 5 if using the same spot rule and you want to stop, and 10 will force you to keep rolling.
Also, I once made it non-scoring because I had gotten a total 35 points in the four white dice and that was opening roll, so I didn't want to risk a train wreck or snowballing into a wimpout.
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Dan Dolan
United States
Highland Lakes
New Jersey
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The one strategy I use in this game is ... Keep going as if nothing were wrong.
I am currnetly in the midst of a 74 game losing streak so take my advice as you will.
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