[net.games.board] Railbaron Odds

wrd@tekigm2.UUCP (Bill Dippert) (11/15/85)

Subject: Re: Rail Baron Strategies
Newsgroups: net.games.board
References: <3350@pur-ee.UUCP> <851@whuxlm.UUCP>

> > 
> > 	Why do you want a South East railroad? The South East only comes
> > up as a destination 7% of the time anyway!!!
> > 
> 
> If you can't get the PA, B&O, etc, it's nice when you are in the west
> and roll the region that you're in to have a faraway safe place to
> choose.  So although you are only forced to go to the South East
> 7% of the time, you actually go there more often if you own most of it.
> 
> Bill Stoll, ..!whuxlm!wws

And if you use the "Seattle Rules" the odds of getting the SE increase.  From
my previous posting (which I have now lost my archival file) showed that it
increased to ~24%.