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From: Ambition: Against the Bishop


Keep a steady hand. Hold your nerve.

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Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 190

  • 130 - very chancy (41%)
  • 162 - chancy (51%)
  • 194 - modest (61%)
  • 225 - very modest (71%)
  • 257 - low-risk (81%)
  • 289 - straightforward (91%)
  • 317 - straightforward (100%)

Success

Beating the Bishop at his game

[…] You bide your time and hold your course - folding early when your hand is poor, playing to the end only when you have a comfortable Litter of Runts or a Perfidity of of Sisters.

The Bishop grinds his teeth. You have him. […]

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Failure

The Bishop smiles

The game is [...] slow. [...] Coins flow one way across the table, then back again.

[...] You risk a gamble with a Triumph of Rosers. [...] Only a Treason of Daughters can beat your hand and there's only one queen left in play. There's no way he can have – oh. He does.