Today’s quiz is relatively simple. You are playing in a money game and you are white. You just got an excellent roll…5-3. Of course, you have to enter off the bar with the 5, and now you have a 3 to play, and there are only two reasonable choices. Here are today’s questions: Should you make your 5 point or should you hit your opponent’s blot on your 10 point? _________________________ If you had rolled double 5 instead, should you hit 1 checker or hit two and leave a blot on your 5 point? _________________________ If you had rolled 6-6 and could not come in off the bar, what would be the proper cube action for black and if black doubled, what would be the proper cube action for white? _________________________ And the tie-breaker question: If white plays his 5-3 correctly, before black’s roll, what are white’s winning chances in the game? 59% B) 52% C) 47%

Quiz by Phil Simborg