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#IDARB cover artvsUltimate Chicken Horse cover art

#IDARBvsUltimate Chicken Horse

#IDARB leans Execution (Competitive PvP); Ultimate Chicken Horse leans Execution (Competitive PvP).

EXECUTION7 /10READS5 /10VARIANCE4 /10OPTIMIZATION2 /10
#IDARBUltimate Chicken Horse

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Execution7 vs 7

Even - both lean on execution about the same.

Reads5 vs 6

Ultimate Chicken Horse leans harder on reads: Predicting what obstacles opponents will place is genuine social reads

Variance4 vs 2

#IDARB leans harder on variance: Hashbomb disruptions inject genuine outside randomness

Optimization2 vs 4

Ultimate Chicken Horse leans harder on optimization: Optimal obstacle placement strategies are learnable over sessions

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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