Usogui - Vol. 20 Ch. 210 - One In Ten Chance

[MangaDex]

 

[failninja21]

11 is definitely the safest choice, doesn't give away any info about how many beans usogui has

 

[belkrax]

>50

Marco goddamn pay attention to the rules.

Also yeah, 11 is a good number if you dont wanna risk it.

 

[saxifraga]

So I suppose the safest guesses for Suteguma would be either 10 (if he has 9 or less) or 19 (if he has 10 exactly). Though I'd imagine they wouldn't wanna spend too much time with the chaplain since they're against the clock with this game. So it might be more beneficial to take more daring guesses with lower numbers to shorten the odds quicker.

Regardless, I'm so enthralled with this arc already.

 

[catx3]

@saxifraga

If Suteguma guesses 19, that would reveal to Baku that he is either holding 10 or 9 beads. (Since you can't guess an impossible amount of beads).

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Speculation about rules & blood

Spoiler

1) The room's time limit is interesting. Each player has up to 10 minutes, plus they are only 'slightly punished' with 100ml of blood if they exceed it. Perhaps the room can be used to stall or trap your opponent for some time, by intentionally delaying your answer?

2) Destroying the terminal causes both players to lose the match is an odd rule. With this game's short time limit, it seems like one of the player's may force a stalemate on purpose if they're pressured enough. I wouldn't be surprised if they threaten to destroy the terminal if they are about to lose.

3) If a player guesses the # of beads correctly, interestingly enough the opponent also learns the correct number of beads. If his partner is near there, perhaps he can tell the partner the answer. I'm also wondering if maybe one of the two players have some sort of special physiology that will let them get injected with blood without any adverse side effects. Baku in particular had a especially shocked face when he heard about the blood injection, perhaps there's something that's related to blood and his weak body? Something like his blood antibody count is low, or he has a weak immune system, which will let him get injected without much issue?

*4) Also, I'm surprised that Suteguma went ahead with this match without inspecting the tower. Would Baku really gamble without having some sort of trap or extra preparation in the tower, given the chance..? I think Baku definitely has something hidden, but given that he didn't know what the game was, it's probably something general purpose, like a wiretap that he loves to use a lot. The question is how prepared Suteguma is? If he is really from Ideal, then they may have been following Baku and his allies ever since he got the L-File, and could have ample time to prepare for this situation.

Also, I love how Suteguma's partner is still unnamed so far.

 

[Rooster]

Retina scanning is also interesting.. If you beat your opponent to a pulp, drag his body to the terminal and scan his retina, would that count as his guess?

 

[Lithe]

inb4 Baku was actually after Suteguma's blood to begin with & his true gamble is if he will live through the injection 😁.

Nah, the "Usogui wins when he loses" was already done well enough in the first Labyrinth game.
If 11 is actually correct I will truly laugh, though.

 

[saxifraga]

@catx3

Whoops. Yep, you're right. For some reason I was under the mindset that high number guesses was the safest option for both single and double digit numbers. What I should've said was 12.

I feel really stupid now. Haha

 

[Gwachiw]

Knowing this mf he'll probably picked up one

 

[MindRealm]

Ok so it's finally happened..I have no idea how this game works. The rules are kinda incoherent to me

 

[Kampfarsch]

So the idea is that choosing 11 gives the opponent no information?
All that means is MC has at least 1 so now he waits for his opponent to give information through his pick?