So, he started moving the cards as he had planned, in the hopes of opening up one of the left hand spaces. He worked methodically, slowly moving the cards in a series of moves that followed one another in a predictable sequence that progressed through the plan that he had set forth for them to go through. When he had completed the series of moves, he was rewarded with an open space on the left hand side of the board. He was happy that it had worked out the why that he had planned, at least so far as opening a left hand space was concerned; he would still have to check to see if the rest of the board was still favorable to moving any of the twos. But the nature of the twos was such that they would still be where he had last seen them, so things shouldn’t end up being too bad on that front, even if some of the cards they were next to might have changed. With that in mind, he looked at where the twos were, and tried to see if anything major had happened to change what was around them. He wanted to see if any of them stood out as the one that he should move.
Unfortunately for him, none of the twos was in a position that made it superficially obvious that it should be moved; he would have to look deeper to find which one was the one that should be moved, if there was even one that actually would be better to move at that point in the game. Or, that it would be obvious at that point in the game which one was the best one to move. Sometimes, it was only obvious after one of the cards had been moved that it would have actually been better to have moved another card. And that wasn’t even obvious a lot of the time, especially this early in a round. Too many cards would likely be moved before a deadlock would occur, and all of the open spaces would have changed so much that only someone with near perfect memory could remember that far back and know that any one move was the wrong one, the one that had lost the round, the one that had changed the whole course of the game. And even that was likely to be speculation, because once one chance is theoretically made, the rest of the moves afterward would, by necessity, change as well.
