From: utzoo!decvax!genradbo!linus!security!wdr
Newsgroups: net.games
Title: Re: spectacular games
Article-I.D.: security.199
Posted: Wed Mar 23 12:14:10 1983
Received: Thu Mar 24 19:30:29 1983
References: cwruecmp.555

Ace of Aces is excellent. Second the Nomination.
	It plays like an RGB-monitor video game without the computer (except 
	its illos are B&W pen&ink drawings, but well down). And as near as I
	can tell, it is based on accurate physics & performance data.
	More realistic than any other game I've  seen for air combat.

Cosmic Wimpout: I do not consider the game trivial.  Proving a strategy
	optimal is very difficult in a game where the expectation of a
	given action is dependent on the current state of the game:
	e.g., the decision to recast a single unscored die depends on
	the value of the roll so far which is endangered  thereby.
	I particularly enjoy Wimpout BECAUSE I haven't been able to
	'solve' it; I don't feel compelled to play perfectly.
	Whereas when I play Gin, I feel I'm cheating myself if I don't
	do Baysian analysis to guide my play, and my wife feels cheated
	if I do (as well as making it too much like work).


		Bill Ricker
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