I think I'm at 20+ tries now, and I've still yet to get knocked out by Daigoro even once, it's really strange.

I'm starting to think I'm overthinking the cup shuffling part, and that the portion of the shuffle animation that you can track actually plays out the exact same way each time with no deviation. But that means I've been picking the same tile every time too - the initial tile that the gold appears on (which also happens to be the where the gold basket is last seen during the shuffle, before it gets combined in the middle).

Has anyone ever chosen that tile and gotten Daigoro afterwards? Maybe I've just been insanely lucky.