Speedster Emblem

I finished the first two pages of emblems (the games high-scorers emblems) of Mario & Sonic at the Winter Olympic Games for NDS. Yay. Took me like two weeks to figure out that boosting multiple times quickly gives you faster speed than boosting multiple times with delays in Supersonic Downhill. That also explains why I kept finding opponents at 22.100 seconds while my record was 22.300 seconds. 😦

Now I need to figure out how to get 2700 meters in Rocket Ski Jumping… Like, opponents get 2700 pretty common, while my record is 2400.

Unrelated:
You’re waiting for Monopoly report? The English Native teacher got substituted for unknown reason, so no Monopoly today 😦 But for some reason we were able to play it on the “Tutor Time” one hour before school ends.

Three vs one is impossible to win if you’re the one with bad luck. Like, you went around the board for the first time, without landing on any unbought property. 😦 Then there are three people making an agreement, like immunities and trading properties without anything in return. $4,500 + three pawns = triple purchase ability. Versus a single player with bad luck. 😦 😦 😦

Monopoly House Rules

I started to go crazy over Monopoly since…uh…5 days ago when my English “Native” teacher (which is actually from Bandung anyway) had the theme about negotiation and brought up Monopoly.

There are a lot of house rules in Monopoly, starting from the perhaps-most-common no-auction rule, to the unlimited buildings, to the weird “no collecting rent in Jail”. Before knowing the actual rules, I even went as far as “Free Parking grants you the ability to move your piece anywhere, getting the $200 salary if it’s in the first half of the board (it’s going past Go right?).”

Yeah, they are all wrong. But even then, I feel the actual rules pretty constricting. Like, you can’t trade anything other than cash, properties, and Get Out From Jail card. Nah, it’s no fun without alliances and betrayals. (Too many The Mole craze, seeing my next game on AoPS is The Mole.) So expect some weird rules to be reported (hopefully) when I play Monopoly against my classmates in 2 days (in the same English “Native” class)…