"However beautiful the strategy, you should occasionally look at the results."
-Winston Churchill
There are a lot of ways to win a game of Nine Lives. Brute force is known to be an effective strategy, overpowering your opponents with spiked beach ball after spiked beach ball, ultimately wearing down the competition until they just can't take any more of your pummeling. This strategy comes with a price, though. Raw power may appear unrefined and represent an inherent, uncontrollable threat; moreover, boldness is extremely memorable and fairly iconic, carrying over a reputation from one game to the next. The power strategy works today, but tomorrow never forgets.
The game of Nine Lives is the perfect place to play hide and seek. The player that disappears, the invisible competitor, has a distinct, long term edge. This passive strategy provides an "under the radar" approach, and not a single opponent will remember your victorious emergence. You may simply come out of hiding at the perfect moment, keeping your disguise a mystery for future games, and destroy the opposition with subtlety.
Today's Jazz Hands bided their time. Day one-hundred and thirty-five complete.
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