All game-related strategies (goals) are devised to obtain a closed string (thereby solving and validating it as some fibor, although the game itself may still be open) via folding. (see zero-bubble, loop➰)
/// Actually, there is no loop➰ requirement for a
string to be closed (not open), since the end of the string must attach to a (mem)brane (even if that membrane is the string's other endpoint). Therefore, the yield is derived when in that a string is closed, but only by acoustic approximation.