CMON Feature Friday: What Are the Odds?

Never tell me the odds – Han Solo 

If you’re a strategic game player, then you know that board games are usually made up of a series of big and small decisions.  The best games find creative ways to make those decisions interesting and challenging. Almost always, you have to decide on a path you want to take: Do I collect wood or go after coal? What you’re really doing, in an abstract way, is calculating the odds of a situation. You’re deciding what actions are more likely to help you generate points, or gold, or whatever the victory conditions are in the game. Knowing the odds is not always a good thing. Sometimes the most fun decisions we make in a game are the ones when we follow our gut. But no matter what leads us to take the actions we do, the odds stay the same.