I have played three games today because of the Golden Pursuits. Prior to that, I had played at most 5 games over a year ago. The game was effectively new to me. I remembered enough about the game to know that I would be overwhelmed by it, and I was correct.

On my first game, I just randomly clicked as much stuff as I could to see which elements were interactable and what my options were if so. My score was like 15, opponent 45. My second game, I tried really hard to do stuff intelligently in the time allowed, by reading and thinking, but my score was like 5, opponent 45. My third game I think was with someone a lot less skilled then the first two games, and the score was more like me 30, opponent 45.

You know how every once in a while, someone will let chimps pick stocks to buy and sell, and the chimp's selections will out perform like 50% of the loud mouthed financial pundits on TV? My thee games felt kinda like that. As if random chance plays a large role. Like the party game Apples to Apples. One time we created a phantom player and just pulled in random cards from the phantom player, and it won just as often as a human person did. So the Apples to Apples game is just a social ride along a random number generator. I am left wondering if Tales of Tribute is similar.

But also, can a human on the other side know if a person is just randomly taking actions? Because when I was thinking and purposeful, I actually did worse.