Eric beats the clockwork four games in five; these close the holes he
walks through. The treasure race: no number card is hoarded for a war
chest when no enemy stands within six squares, and never against the
delivery that wins the game outright. The kill: bestAttack now shops
every number and the amplify separately, preferring a killing blow at
minimal spend (with three points of soak margin, or an ABSORB undoes
it) over maximum splash, banking the big numbers for the next fight.
The last stand: a blow that would be lethal escalates past every
thrift threshold — any counter that can save the clockwork is cheap
at that price, ABSORB's three soaked points included when they are
exactly the margin. The race denial: TELEPORT OPPONENT and DROP
OBJECT now fire on any carrier one delivery from winning, not just
the thief of the bot's own gold. And the MASTER KEY goes on display
the turn it is drawn, opening every workable lock on the march for
free. A/B against the prior brain across 300 mirror games: parity
(the features aim at human play patterns mirrors rarely exercise);
three scenario tests pin the new instincts. Ships ungated — brains
choose commands, ledgers record them.
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