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From: The Treasures of Grunting Fen


The zailors in your crew love a little flutter, and they're already setting up races. Can you pick a winner with your practised eye?

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Challenge information

Broad, Watchful 128

  • 88 - very chancy (41%)
  • 109 - chancy (51%)
  • 131 - modest (61%)
  • 152 - very modest (71%)
  • 173 - low-risk (81%)
  • 195 - straightforward (91%)
  • 214 - straightforward (100%)

Success

A nippy little toadstool

You place your bet on an athletic-looking specimen. It's got the speed, certainly, but it's distressingly inclined to veer off the makeshift race course. [...] Still, your luck holds, and the little fungus finishes first.


Failure

Not your day

You place your bet on a squat little mushroom that looks unlikely to overbalance. It trundles along steadily in second place, but […] disaster strikes in the form of a rolling boulder. Your runner is just a smear on the ground, now.

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