Intentional Mistakes dancing with Attractive Daughters?

[Salty Dog]

When dancing with the Attractive Daughters do you often make mistakes on purpose so you get a gift from her instead of her telling you where Raymondo is?

[fleetp]

I have enough trouble dancing that I don't intentionally make mistakes.

[Roland]

I find attractive daughters the easiest to dance with - and therefore it's fairly easy to manipulate the outcome to get the item. Getting items from plain daughters is harder - you need a perfect dance, and they tend to be harder to dance with. (In story terms, I imagine that plain daughters, since they don't have good marriage prospects, just get really into dancing, and are therefore more demanding on the dance floor. Beautiful daughters are demanding just because they know they can get away with it. Attractive daughters are more easygoing because they think that's their best strategy for finding a good husband.)

[bryce777]

I thought of that but did not really know how it worked. From now on I will have to try this!

[Captain Dave]

Yes, I do this almost 100% of the time.

The rewards from attractive daughters seem backward to me. In other words, Raymondo would make sense as the easier reward, since it only takes stopping by a Jesuit mission or paying 1000 gold to a stranger to get his location. The special items of course cost more than that from the stranger.

I usually give at least 1 Ruby Ring to an attractive daughter to speed up getting special items early in the game. Can get 3 items for the cost of a ring: 1 for giving the ring, 1 for the duel, and 1 for the second dance. Can also then get a Lost City map piece by getting her back from Mendoza and returning (but not marrying) her.

[Captain Dave]

[bryce777]

The faster dance speeds seem to make it easier to get flourishes. I used to be terrible at dancing but now I am great at it, probably because there are just so many patterns.

[Guardacostas]

I never knew this, thanks for the tip. I would always much rather have a free gift.