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HostagesvsManhunt

Hostages leans Execution (Practiced Mastery); Manhunt leans Optimization (Practiced Mastery).

EXECUTION5 /10READS0 /10VARIANCE2 /10OPTIMIZATION4 /10
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Axis by axis

Execution5 vs 4

Hostages leans harder on execution: aiming precision under time pressure

Reads0 vs 0

Even - both lean on reads about the same.

Variance2 vs 2

Even - both lean on variance about the same.

Optimization4 vs 5

Manhunt leans harder on optimization: Shadow routes and lure tactics are learnable

Two games can score the same on an axis and still test it in very different ways - read each rationale, not just the number.

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