{"id":80753,"date":"2008-12-18T00:52:26","date_gmt":"2008-12-17T15:52:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/?p=80753"},"modified":"2026-09-24T13:41:10","modified_gmt":"2026-09-24T04:41:10","slug":"the-only-hand-wound-spool-that-reaches-8000-all","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/20081218\/everyday-events\/the-only-hand-wound-spool-that-reaches-8000-all","title":{"rendered":"The Only Hand-Wound Spool That Reaches 8000 All"},"content":{"rendered":"

 
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The flow is definitely vertical.
\nHorizontal accepts far more tiles, but the speed to ready is vertical.
\nCan’t miss the winning hand in this point situation\u2026
\nThis scene always comes up\u2014I must have failed.
\nHorizontal: best case is all simples, two-sided wait, pair of dragons, bent for double, concealed win.
\nVertical: all simples, seven pairs, pair of dragons, bent for half-flush, concealed full.
\nConsidering the chance that two-sided wait doesn’t come through, seven pairs is the safer bet.
\nBut if seven pairs doesn’t get all simples, it’s only 9,600\u2026
\nAnd this choice always comes up\u2014really always.
\nIf I go vertical, I would have won by draw on horizontal. If I go horizontal, I would have won by draw on vertical. Or so it goes.
\nCounting remaining tiles or watching discards and draws\u2014the result is the same\u2026
\nA two-way choice always loses! That’s the thing.
\nThe other day I pulled the wiring on a Sportster’s turn signal and couldn’t tell the color, so I just went “here goes!” and plugged it in.
\nBut it still didn’t light up\u2026I thought, not again, it’s backwards.
\nWell, not that it really matters, I guess.
\nYep.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

   The flow is definitely vertical. Horizontal accepts far more tiles, but the speed to ready is vertical. Can’t miss the winning hand in this point situation\u2026 This scene always comes up\u2014I must have failed. Horizontal: best case is all simples, two-sided wait, pair of dragons, bent for double, concealed win. Vertical: all simples, seven pairs, pair of dragons, bent for half-flush, concealed full. Considering the chance that two-sided wait doesn’t come through, seven pairs is the safer bet. But if seven pairs doesn’t get all simples, it’s only 9,600\u2026 And this choice always comes up\u2014really always. If I go vertical, I would have won by draw on horizontal. If […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":80752,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pochipp_cv_data":"","swell_btn_cv_data":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1924],"tags":[55],"class_list":["post-80753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-everyday-events","tag-old-blog"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=80753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/80753\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/80752"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=80753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=80753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.decoboco.info\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=80753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}