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Count Pips in Under Ten Seconds

Mental shifting, cluster counting and the mid-point trick — race arithmetic you'll actually use over the board.

The Cube Room · Beginner

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Pip Counting

The race number that tells you when to run and when to fight.

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Held a 1-3 back game for eleven rolls — then what?

Anchors held, timing survived, and then I had no idea when to abandon it. At what pip count does a back game stop being a plan and start being a slow loss?