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Subject: Does optimal play involve suicidal mice? rss

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Tom Chappelear
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I was showing this game to a (grownup) friend, and in our quick play-through he jumped out to a two-to-none cheese lead, although I had made one of his mice fall into a dungeon. There was a dungeon trap next to a corner battlement. Could he simply fling his remaining mice into the pit to end the game and win? Remember, the winner is the player with the most cheese collected, no matter how many mice they have left.

Isn't it a bit too easy to jump your mice into a pit as soon as you are even one cheese ahead? Should there be a penalty (say, of one cheese collected) if you end the game by having your penultimate mouse fall?

I realize that this will not happen when I play with my kids, but the game is interesting enough to play with grownups, and I figured this has occured to others, too.

Or am I missing something?
 
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Tim Fiscus
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I have my copy at work, but isn't the rule that you automatically lose if you lose your penultimate mouse, no matter how much cheese you have collected? I feel pretty certain that is the rule.

 
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HuckmanT wrote:
I have my copy at work, but isn't the rule that you automatically lose if you lose your penultimate mouse, no matter how much cheese you have collected? I feel pretty certain that is the rule.


This is correct
 
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Tom Chappelear
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Ah, I see it now in the rules. Never mind!
 
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