I’ve been noticing recently that my opponent’s Destruct-o-meter has been consistently filling up faster than mine.
I still have no idea how that thing works. In the past I’ve noticed that when both my opponent and I have exactly the same score (that’s happened several times), the Destruct-o-meters are at different positions, sometimes in my favor, sometimes not.
Now, even if I’m around 300,000 points ahead, my opponent always seems to have an extra card, and it’s not because the game has “skipped his turn” (which it used to do occasionally); his meter just seems to fill up faster, especially near the end of a match.