Bingo
Bingo is a game of filling in the grid, in which the first winner in the game is named after the winner who shouts "Bingo" to win. Bingo is also a very classic game in the casino, and its gameplay is also divided into many kinds, and now Kevin and Sevier are ready to face off is one of the Bingo board games for two-player betting.
The rules of the game are very simple, both sides fill in the 25 numbers from 1 to 25 on the Bingo board of 5×5, the dealer will accept the Bingo board of both sides and exchange it at the same time to their respective opponents, in a short period of time to remember the opponent's number of the side to stop, after the stop two Bingo boards are recovered at the same time, both sides can no longer see, the first to stop the party has the right to choose the number first. The two 'cross' to choose the number for the pair, and the selected number will be circled on the two Bingo boards at the same time, and after the circle, it can not be selected again. The number 5 in a row on your Bingo board is counted as a Bino, including horizontal rows, vertical rows and oblique rows, and the person who connects 5 rows of Bingo first wins the game.
Although Bingo Connection was chosen by Sevier, Kevin is no stranger to this game, so he has the confidence to compete with Sevier. Phyllis had already asked Darko to prepare the parchment and send it directly to the table, Kevin smiled and glanced at the hat man, and began to write the contract. The man in the hat was also speechless for a while, Kevin also said before that he couldn't represent his team, but it was clear from this posture that it was decided by their whole team.
When both sides place piles of gold coins at each end of the table, a pale ink 'colored' rune forms above the center of the table, taking in the gold coins that both sides are betting on, and then fades away.
Watching the rune fade, Darko had an ominous feeling lingering in his heart, and he looked around to find the source of that feeling, but found nothing. Then he suddenly realized that the ruined middle-aged man was no longer there, and it was as if there had never been such a person in this casino.
His gaze fell back to Sevier, and he saw Sevier's right eye, which was very strange and uncomfortable to look at. Darko quietly stepped back and whispered to Wendy's side, "It's likely that Sewell's right eye has some sort of ability to record images, so Kevin should be careful." ”
Wendy nodded imperceptibly, and sent the voice into Kevin's ears with the sound transmission magic of the qi system. At this time, Kevin and Sevier were already sitting down at opposite ends of the table, and the dealer at the table obviously knew that neither side was easy to mess with, so he hurriedly handed the two Bingo boards in front of the two of them and announced the start of the game.
Kevin and Sevier glanced at each other and began to fill in the numbers on the 5×5 Bingo board. At the same time, they raised their heads and stared at each other from time to time, as if they wanted to see through each other's hearts.
Soon both of them finished filling out their Bingo boards and 'handed' them over to the dealer. The dealer put the two Bingo boards upside down on the table and then opened them at the same time, which is the time to test the quick memory, Kevin quickly scanned the Bingo board in front of him with only one eye open, and only one eye can reduce the visual delay of 0.02 seconds of binocular focus, which is a shorthand technique.
Almost the next second when the Bingo board was opened, Kevin's voice rang out, "Stop!"
So the two Bingo boards were turned upside down again, and Kevin hurriedly closed his eyes, and when he just closed his eyelids, there would still be an afterimage left on the pupil, so that the eyes could still see the picture seen before the eyes closed for a few seconds, so that he could increase the memory time, but this little trick belonged to Kevin.
In the duel of the Bingo board, in fact, there are some weak people who know that they are not opponents, and they want to rely on the instant to stop, so that the opponent has no time to remember their Bingo number arrangement, which is equivalent to both sides are "blind guessing", so as to narrow the gap between the strength and weakness of the two sides. But Kevin's shorthand method is not afraid of those small tricks at all, no matter how short the time is, he is confident that he can remember all the positions of the 25 numbers. After being alerted by Wendy, he realized that Sevier might have a head start, so he abandoned his conservative memory method and shouted a halt as fast as he could.
Sewell was also stunned, he was going to call a stop first to seize the lead, but he didn't expect Kevin to be faster than him. But it seems that Kevin's load is not small, and in just a few seconds, he seems to have experienced a big battle, and a layer of fine beads of sweat appear on his forehead. The bystanders who were outside the bureau were also discussing, and they all thought that Kevin was 'messing around', and he didn't even remember the other party's Bingo board and shouted to stop, there was no technical content at all, and now both sides were going to become blind guesses.
Darko kept an eye on Sevier during this process, and he could see it clearly, the moment the Bingo board was turned over, the whites of Sevier's pupilless eyes reflected the numerical arrangement of the Bingo board like a mirror, and it did not disappear as if it was printed on his eyeballs, but slowly shrank until he could no longer see.
Leah also noticed this strange scene, and exclaimed in a low voice, "Oh no! Sevier must have some kind of bloodline ability to record images, Costner suffers!"
Darko looked at Kevin, who was closing his eyes and concentrating on his memory, and said slowly, "Since Sevier has chosen Bingo Connection, he must be the most sure of this gamble, and it is expected to take the lead." ”
Leah became anxious, "What you said is easy, Sevier wrote down Costner's Bingo board, but Costner obviously intends to play blind guessing by shouting stop in an instant, is there any chance of winning later?"
"Who said Costner can't remember?" Wendy pressed Leah's shoulder from behind, "Although I don't know much about this gamble, judging from Costner's expression, he shouldn't be left behind, we need to calm down and wait and see." ”
Phyllis also nodded in agreement, "Costner is not very good, his gambling skills are not bad, at least a little better than me, just trust him once." ”
Leah looked at Darko, Wendy, and Phyllis in turn, and saw that they all had calm expressions, and gradually calmed down.
At this point, the two Bingo boards have been placed facing out of the table, and the players in both games cannot see it, but everyone else can see it.
The one on the left is a Bingo board filled out by Kevin
41416247
618982
113192017
151051122
312212523
The one on the right is a Bingo board filled out by Sevier
917242513
24151814
21101971
121682211
2335620
Otto compared the two Bingo boards and said suspiciously, "Have you noticed that the number in the middle of the two Bingo boards is the same." ”
Others also discovered this one after another, and Darko's heart sank suddenly, this same number is probably not accidental. The number in the centre of the Bingo board is the most crucial number, as it is the only number associated with two diagonal rows at the same time, and this number is the center point of the 4 rows, which is crucial in the game. Because of this, everyone will be the first to report the central number when arranging the Bingo board, and some people will write their lucky number, while others will choose the obscure number.
Kevin also slowly opened his eyes at this time, he had completely memorized the number arrangement on Sevier's Bingo board, but his face was a little unnatural and stared at Sevier and asked, "How do you know that my central number is 19?"
For the first side, it is equivalent to being one step ahead of the other party, but now the central numbers of the two sides are the same, which means that when Kevin chooses this number, the central number of Sevier will also be circled, so it is equivalent to Kevin's failure to establish an advantage in this step, and the first advantage he worked so hard to seize is lost. But he's obviously more concerned about how Sevier knows, and he doesn't want to lose in vain.
Sevier chuckled a few times and replied, "You should be very concerned about Kostner's last win against Fadan, right?"
Kevin's body trembled involuntarily, and since the last round of the match, he had been thinking about the game he hadn't seen, the match between his brother's Kostner team and the Fadan team. When he came to the casino and saw that the result of the game was a 19-minute victory for Kostner, not only did not ease this concern, but made him even more curious. This is because as the game goes by, if he is not eliminated, the time to meet his brother again will get closer and closer, Kevin has been thinking about how the Costner team took out the Fadan team in 19 minutes, and what kind of 'fierce' battle took place in 19 minutes...... 19!
Kevin himself didn't realize that he had already filled in the number in the center of the box when he filled out the Bingo board. It was only then that he suddenly realized, and hurriedly took his thoughts back from there, concentrating on the gamble in front of him, after all, this gamble was about the next semi-final, and only after this hurdle could he 'face' his brother's Kostner team again.
The dealer announces that the game is going to the next stage, and the two sides report the numbers to each other, and since Kevin is the one who calls the stop first when memorizing the numbers, he will report first. Kevin was angry and wanted to quote a different number and not give Sevier the center, but he realized that if he did so, he would make himself more passive and make the first mover advantage 'ruined'. Kevin exhaled deeply, but still reported the central number, "19"
"15" Sevier first reported his 3×2 position, which was connected with 19, while Kevin Bingo was 15 on the 1×4 position. The Coster case became more and more certain that Sevier was not guessing blindly, but that he had jotted down his number arrangement and was aiming to start the layout.
"5" Costner according to the established routine, quoted the number 5 in the same line as the first two numbers, located at the position of 3×1, which is equivalent to two circled numbers on both lines. But Sewell's 5 is 3×5, which is on the same vertical line as the previous 19 and 15, so there are three numbers on that vertical line, and Kevin has the upper hand in this game.
Sewell looked at Kevin with a smile and said, "Thank you, I was still thinking about the next number 5, but I didn't expect you to help me report it first." ”
Kevin's cheeks twitched, and he said indifferently, "No thanks, I believe you will help me later." ”
Listening to the words of their attacks on each other's psychological defenses, Darko found that this gambling game was really 'spiritual' devastation, and he felt that if he sat at the gambling table, his heart would definitely beat faster and his magic would be 'disordered'. Darko stared at the two Bingo boards, and suddenly remembered the situation when he played the red and black wheel before, so he tried to open the Pupil of Cause and Effect. Immediately, the two Bingo boards were related to each other, stirring up Darko's vision into a 'chaos' and 'chaos', and the Bingo boards also implicated Sevier and Kevin on both sides, but Dacko saw Sevier and found that he couldn't see the causal connection on his body, but at this time it reappeared.
Darko realized that perhaps it was Sevier who was using his eyes to record the arrangement of Bingo numbers, allowing him to temporarily see the causal connections on the other person's body. Darko realized this, and for fear of being discovered by Sevier, he did not dare to stare at him, but instead looked at the Bingo board, and then observed it with his peripheral vision. Darkonics suddenly found that the causal connection on Sevier's body was also a "mess" and "chaos" like a twisted 'flower', which was actually the same as the vitamin guild killer that Darko had seen. And his hat is made of something, and there are dozens of causal connections implicated on it.
The number "24" Sevier quoted was at the 3×1 position on his Bingo board, which was on the same vertical line as 15, 19 and 5, while the 24 on Kevin's Bingo board was 4×1, which was another deviation that had nothing to do with the front. Sevier laughed strangely, "I'm a very stingy person, I won't help others easily, will you be disappointed?"
"1" Kevin also started to fight back, reporting the number of Sewell's 5×3.
"8" Sevier has accumulated enough advantages, in his laughter, his Bingo board first vertical row was successfully connected, 24, 15, 19, 8, 5 connected into a line, on the other hand, Kevin's Bingo board is still messy and messy, there is no sign of connecting into a line.
"21" Kevin was unmoved, his appearance was still calm, but he no longer 'communicated' with Sewell, but was engrossed in reporting the numbers.
“4”
“9”
“22”
“13”
"20" With the number announced, the 9, 4, 19, 22, and 20 on a diagonal line are also connected on the Saivier Bingo board to become the second line. Sewell's loud laughter was about to fill the air throughout the casino, and the hearts of several people watching from the Darko team were also raised with this laughter.
"16" Kevin frowned slightly, but immediately continued to count quickly.
“18”
"10" Kevin's Bingo board was finally connected into a vertical row, 16, 9, 19, 5, 21 became a line, Darko and others who were watching the game below cheered in a low voice, but when they saw Saiwell's Bingo board, they were immediately unhappy, and the 13 reported by Kevin also connected a diagonal row of Saivier into 4 numbers, so Saivier had the basis of a three-row connection and occupied an absolute advantage.
"23" Sevier actually connected another diagonal line, connecting 23, 16, 19, 18, and 13 together to become the third. Several people outside the bureau were all solemn, but Liya exclaimed in surprise and covered her eyes with her hands, not daring to look any further. Kevin also seemed to be a little anxious, and hurriedly began to connect his unformed wires.
“17”
After Kevin reported this number, he finally connected to the second row of the line on his Bingo board, which was the horizontal row where 1, 13, 19, 20, and 17 were located. But 17 was also one of the two number slots in the first row on Sevier's Bingo board, and Sevier laughed, "What's the matter, Kevin? Have you been attacked? Sevier continued to taunt Kevin and gave a desperate number.
“25”
25, 17, 2, 20, 21, this vertical row of numbers has also been connected, becoming the fourth row on the Saivier Bingo board, and then Saivier only needs to make up another 12, you can connect the row of 12, 20, 4, 22, 1 again, and win the victory, he can't help but laugh wildly. But he noticed that Kevin was also smiling faintly, and he asked strangely, "What are you laughing at? Are you crazy?"
Kevin said, "The reason why I'm going to fill in 17 for you is so that you can connect to the 25 row first, so that you won't notice my game outside of the rice word." ”
Sevier was stunned for a moment, and the whites of his eyes turned up Kevin's Bingo board, and he began to look carefully, only to find that Kevin had unknowingly involved a complicated cobweb-like game. Kevin has been doing this game from beginning to end, 'luring' Sevier to constantly connect his own wires and circle him for the extra numbers in that game. And Kevin himself has been reporting the numbers in the rice word, which makes Sevier think that Kevin wants to connect the four lines of the rice character with 19 as the center, but in fact, the numbers that Kevin laid out are all reported by Sevier in order to put pressure on Kevin to connect the lines as soon as possible, so he himself didn't realize that Kevin's Bingo board had formed a turbulent situation. Sevier realized that it was too late, and before he could scream, he heard Kevin indifferently report the final number.
“11”
The sound of BingoBingo is endless, 15, 4, 5, 11, 22, 24, 8, 20, 11, 25, 10, 18, 19, 11, 23, the three horizontal and vertical lines are connected at the same time with 11 as the center, plus Kevin's two connections before, a total of 5 have been connected. Kevin narrowly won this game by one step, and the group of people at the table, except for Darko, were stunned at first, and then realized what had happened, and cheered excitedly.
Sewell's forehead was only wrinkled together, like a tangled tree root, and after a while, he exhaled and leaned back in his chair, "I didn't expect you to plan to connect three lines around the 11 in the 4×4 position, and most of the numbers were reported by me, good, good!haha!"
Kevin finally relaxed, he felt that this gamble was more tiring than going through a battle, "Everyone has a dead end in their thinking, just like the 'shadow' under the magic lamp." When I learned that you memorized my Bingo board in an instant, I guessed that you must have some kind of ability to record images. Although it is the most intuitive to look at the screen, it is easy to miss the blind spots in the visual, and I don't make that mistake when I memorize the numbers. ”
Sewell's wrinkled forehead gradually relaxed, and finally sighed with a smile, "Sure enough, I still can't resist fate...... It's my honor to lose to you. But gambling is gambling, and the game is a game, even if we lose to you 50,000 gold coins, it doesn't mean that we will give up, and the next game will be a beautiful battle. How's that? Do you have the confidence to bet on yourself to win?"
Kevin waved his hand and brushed the two Bingo boards 'messy', "Scattering bets and sitting flat to win is a conservative game, and for your own game, losing half is the mentality you should have." ”
Sevier nodded approvingly, then laughed and left.