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?
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If you had rolled double 5 instead,
should you hit 1 checker or hit two
and leave a blot on your 5 point?
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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?
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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%
