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#267: Top 10 Revisited & "Golden Age"

So Very Wrong About Games

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The Mayan Civilization

The way to maximize your score is to forgo all the cool bonuses. And just score as much as you can every round. That's what I did. I won the game by a healthy margin and I got none of the cool toys. Meanwhile, my opponents were gradually upping their sacrifice value. We're getting all the cool toys, but whatever I banked enough of a score by the first few rounds that it didn't really matter. You know, the smart plays at odds with the cool play or if all the incentives work at cross purposes not in fun ways.

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