Monday 3:42 AM

No one ever likes sending 2-3 over the board but today it has to be done. Paid off with the favorable cut. Lead the 9.

Monday 4:18 AM

Some arrangement of 6-9-9-?, just a question over the identity of the fourth card. I think 2-5 will be a safer discard than 2-3 or 3-5, so my card #4 is the 3.

Monday 4:23 AM

I’m keeping my 6 points and throwing the more defensive 2/5 instead of 23- the chances of a cut improving my hand decrease with this hold but the chances of a big crib by my opponent also decrease exponentially

Monday 4:25 AM

Like to hold the 5 in my hand because of the 16 face cards that are still out there.

Monday 4:36 AM

At least I'm holding six points. I threw 2-5 because of A-2-3-4 add on possibilities. dec

Monday 5:01 AM

Here it is!

Monday 5:25 AM

A defensive throw would require breaking up 699 and keeping only 2 points. Amongst 23, 25 and 35, 25 seems the least damaging.

Monday 6:21 AM

This way

Monday 6:51 AM

Tossing a 5 is bad enough but the 2-3 toss is just asking for trouble early.
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Monday 7:01 AM

Toss the 2-3 in case a face card is cut and hope my opponent has to discard the same cards to me in the near future. Leading from a pair never seems to work for me and my opponent always has a 3 so he/she will get two for the pair and I'll get two for 15.

Monday 7:09 AM

I overthought this one.... Should have just kept the 6 and taken my chances.

Monday 7:40 AM

No one likes doing it; but at 0-0*, will do so. Lead the 9.

Monday 7:45 AM

I would much rather give them 5-2 than 5-3.

Monday 7:48 AM

With Rob and Dan on this one. Would rather toss 25 than 23 and still holding for 12. Leading the 3.

Monday 9:36 AM

I'm coming out swinging! 2/3 or 2/5 are still going to give the pone something.

Monday 10:13 AM

At 0-0* playing an Offense strategy for the pegging the dynamic expected averages and Win/Loss %s are:

_______________Our
Offense___Hand_Pegs_Crib____Total___W9 %____W10 %
5-6-9-9____8.52+1.48+(-7.42)=2.58____27.7____20.9
2-5-6-9S___4.91+1.89+(-4.26)=2.54____20.6____19.7
3-5-6-9____4.96+1.83+(-4.29)=2.50____20.6____20.0
3-6-9-9____7.17+1.28+(-6.30)=2.15____23.9____20.3

Offense______L9 %____L10 %
5-6-9-9_______45.3____55.3
2-5-6-9S______38.5____54.0
3-5-6-9_______37.9____53.6
3-6-9-9_______41.3____54.7

5-6-9-9 is best for expected averages but only by 0.04pt. over 2-5-6-9S. It is very much best for Win %s but also very much the worst for Loss %s because of the risky 2-3. As I'm recommending Offense I will, however, select the 2-3 to discard.

After the 9 cut I'll lead a 9 and play Offense:

Lead___________Our Pegging Points
9_____________________1.88
5_____________________1.25
6_____________________0.85

Monday 11:49 AM

The voting fell where I thought it would. I tossed 2-3 in real life and a 7 was cut. I got away with tossing 2-3. In retrospect I thought 2-9 might be the better toss, but it turns out I was right the first time.

Monday 1:43 PM

Great puzzle Gregory! Interesting how the majority of votes went our way but the commentors went right down the middle.