# Note that turn order is indicated both by colors (color order is constant and eventually familiar), and by die face on the graphical stacks (1-6, two colors with 1s when all seven players are alive).

This is a very important one. Mind the dice #'s.

These might be obvious......

Don't attack a small stack that's next to a larger stack of the same color. (eg. If you are red and have a 4 and you hit a blue 2 and blue has an 8 on the other side of their 2, dont do it. 95% of the time blue will return the favor by running that 8 right through you.)

Don't suicide or ask to die if you've been small all game. THERE IS A MAX and MIN FOR DOMINATION POINTS! If you've had 2 lands in a corner the whole game, sit there and hope for 4th or 5th. You'll get the minimum dom score either way, but +0 for 4th is a lot better than -15 for 7th and -10 for crappy dom points.

Particularly in the early to mid-game:

Don't aggravate a player you can't kill. Splitting someone is about the most aggravating thing you can do, they will generally focus all their attention on you until they're unsplit. Sometimes it's useful to intentionally kill a stack you'd have otherwise not bothered with just so that player won't have an incentive to connect through you.

Don't steal lands from a player who can easily attack you. If you can arrange things so that your big stacks are up against his little stacks, then it's usually ok.

Early on, it's usually wisest to expand via killing other players' "islands". Not only will they not get angry, they'll often thank you for it.

Or, if you want to win but not make friends

Do: Split early with your largest stack, usually around turn 2
Do: Build up to +32 and attack five times in one turn.
Do: Never flag if you can win
Do not: Kill islands. They suck up other people's dice. The more islands they have, the more dice they won't get where they'd like them
Do: Call out pga if you're about to get killed. (Blue and green are pga! Kill them! Kill the pga'ers!)

Most of all... 1 hit your opponents. But make sure to call it out first. It's cooler that way.

{Most of all... 1 hit your opponents. But make sure to call it out first. It's cooler that way.}
Yeah, actually lots of times if you one-hit somebody without calling it first, the other players will gang up and kill you next as punishment, on account of how much more awesome it would have been had you called it first. On the other hand, if you do call it, the rest will be so daunted by your mad throwing skills that they will prolly just flag to you.

6 replies and this thread is going down the tubes, solid work

what is one-hit?