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Is it even possible to win the game?

Realized after I posted that it's probably really hard to actually win.

I've played it 100 million times in a monte carlo simulation and even applied two heuristics to hit a winning strategy:

This is the MOST HackerNews comment ever (in the good sense) and it makes me immensely happy that this is the kind of feedback I received.

Btw, going to post a new version with some tweaks to the ruble payout etc.

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