Game Over I just came across this article on the BBC site. Apparently Christie's auction house won a game of 'Scissors, Paper, Stone' against Sotheby's because they were using a remarkable strategy, which goes that most people go for stone, so other people choose paper to beat that, therefore always go for scissors... what a load of arsenal. "Sotheby's reluctantly accepted this as a 50/50 game of chance", it says. No it isn't, it's 33.3333/33.33333. They won a 10 and a half million quid commission thanks to that. And there are strategies for Monopoly, like buy the Orange ones, or better, just buy everything you land on - like, duh, hello like? Some bloke in Limburg got a Masters in Connect Four. Connect Four?! I wish mine was in bloody Connect bleeding Four. I'm surprised they haven't got strategies for Penny Up. That was a game, wasn't it! It's just throwing a penny at a wall, and seeing which one lands closest. They actually banned it at my school. Maybe I should write a doctoral thesis in the ins and outs of Penny Up. Penny bleedin Up. Why the anti-game sentiments? Because I'm losing my ability to win. Terry beat me twice at Chess last week, unbloodyheard-of, and last night Simon and I stayed up until nearly 6am playing MarioKart, and for the first time ever, he BEAT me. 10-9, the final score, but I was behind all the way. Utterly disgraceful! No amount of Red-Shells could help me out. I have to think up a new strategy. I need all the help I can get.

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