I walked into Harvey's Bar and Grill, and was pleased to find Jemimahsitting at the far end table, as always with her miniature board infront of her. "Hi-yo Stein," she called, "come on over and have a look at this." Onthe board was this position: 6 10 "Now is that a triple auto?" I asked. "Yep, this is a position I found myself in at PB's last night. You everbeen there?" "No, but I hear they call it 'Beaver Creek'." "That's true, the crowd there do have a reputation for loose cubes,sporting takes and unlimited autodoubles. In fact, things have beengetting a little out of hand lately, so PB is now enforcing a strictcube limit of 64. Now, in this position it is Blue on Roll what is thecorrect cube action?" "No double for sure, that's the trivial part, but am I right inassuming that this didn't stop someone from doubling you?" "Correct on both counts," Jemimah smiled, "Blue doubles, then it getsinteresting." "Interesting schminteresting, this looks pretty straight forward," Istarted, but then again almost nothing about Jemimah is entirelystraight forward. You know, her eyes are brown, but the left one has atouch of green while the right one has a touch of orange. Solution to the puzzle will appear next month

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