OLD ARTICLES

  • Game Theory & Survivor: New ideas, especially surrounding strategies of the opening stages of the game.


  • A Question of Leadership: Who is in the cat-bird seat? It shouldn’t be that tough for the players to tell, but recently they seem to be pretty poor at it.


  • A Question of Trends: The game is evolving (we can only hope). How does this effect how players that find themselves in different positions play?


  • A Question of Predictions: There is a spoiler free way to make pretty solid guesses at who will end up the eventual winner. Once the game is about half way done, you can look at how they've played the first half and what position they hold and, more often than not, tell who will be the one that will end up on top. And they say this game is all luck.


  • Strategy Guide – 2.4: My guide on how I think the game should be played that, in all honesty, is in serious need of revision and trimming down. I’m still very comfortable with most of the ideas that are in there, in particular the way in which I define player roles in the middle-game has become a standard for me now. If you combine what is in here with ideas from the Game Theory and Leadership links above, you will be getting pretty close to the mark.