This tale refers to game  ddyer-windy-2000-05-29-0503.

Here is the position, you are playing Green, it's your move.  Where do you move???

Above is the obviously perfect move:

• Play tile #1 at the top, forcing tile 3 to connect.
• Then, after yellow's forced move, all the green tiles will be connected.
  
  
• Note that the replacement drawn for tile #3, another green straight, ruins it all!
• The green straight forms two identical red-green-green forced spaces.

• shocking but true: there are already five of them on the board, so only one left.
• one of the r-g-g came up immediately, but the other is doomed to remain unconnected.
• in effect, green wasted a move to create a short green line that can never go anywhere.