Prompt 1: Describe the central uncertainty in the game.
Within this game, what makes me unsure of victory is the color of the next block that I am going to place. More so, I am unsure of victory also because of the guessing and placement strategy that I employ on each turn. Instead of struggling with physical skill, I would say that choosing the correct strategy of guessing and placement is the key to mastering the difficulty that this unsureness creates in achieving victory. More specifically, within this game, the source of randomness mainly comes into play after a certain number of distinct colored blocks are placed into the playing field by the player. Then, there exists a randomness in the repeated blocks that are placed after this distinct number of colored blocks is achieved that makes the game more complex than simply guessing. Moreover, there is an extra complexity in how the blocks lie in the playing field after they are placed. Sometimes blocks are knocked out of the playing field and remain fully intact while other blocks are split in half or even stacked. This other source of randomness also leads the player to strategise where to place blocks, such as strategically placing new blocks where many different colored blocks overlap. Furthermore, this adds a source of extra complexity where the player has to strategize how blocks may be split based on the current placement and/or split of the blocks that are in the playing field. Overall, this splitting is hard to perceive because of how random this splitting is. After playing through the game multiple times, I could not figure out why certain blocks split the way they did or why some blocks stacked and some did not. Also, I did not find any pattern as to why certain blocks were split instead of simply knocked out of the playing area. Lastly, this game has very slow movement of the blocks, and since the game only allows the player to place a new block once the block just placed reaches the ground, this movement speed really does not matter in trying to achieve and/or master victory within this game.