I agree with using opponents strategy as a guide to playing them. That is normal game behaviour. It's the checking of whether players are auto moving that i object to.
I still like the dark variation, and you would not be hiding the opponents, just their individual totals.
How about a fuzzy variation. You know everyone's total rounded to the nearest hundred. :)
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