Normal or hardcore?
I'm not sure why normal is supposedly the easiest one. It's more challenging to me because you've got the numbers AND the unknown gray ones to break open.
877 is sick for either. nice job.
― pplains, Saturday, 2 March 2013 23:46 (eleven years ago) link
hardcore
normal just takes too long. i do play it occasionally & strategy is def a bit tweaky and i guess 'harder' but its just not a better game in that mode, i could pen a dissertation on this i think
― johnny crunch, Sunday, 3 March 2013 00:00 (eleven years ago) link
My highest hardcore is 565k. I've got a long ways to go.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 March 2013 00:02 (eleven years ago) link
highest hardcore is 856k. but i told a friend about this game and very quickly she bested me and broke the 1 million mark. tbh i kinda wonder about this game. are the numbers in gray blocks completely random? or is it possible to score insanely hgh on every game you play if you make all the right dcisions?
― Jibe, Sunday, 3 March 2013 07:17 (eleven years ago) link
It's taken me awhile to think of it as a chess game, thinking ahead a few extra moves before making the present one.
Primarily because you don't know what pieces you're going to have in those upcoming moves.
― pplains, Sunday, 3 March 2013 17:54 (eleven years ago) link
i know this game so well. it's like an old, intimate enemy.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Monday, 4 March 2013 22:01 (eleven years ago) link
it's my boyd crowder.
otm about it being an old enemy. i'm kind of saddened by the leaderboards though, where the highest score is in the billion range for hardcore, which def feels like someone cheated.
― Jibe, Tuesday, 5 March 2013 03:30 (eleven years ago) link
someone got lucky.
― zero dark (s1ocki), Tuesday, 5 March 2013 04:00 (eleven years ago) link
can't seem to crack 300k on this
― am0n, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:04 (ten years ago) link
help
― am0n, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:07 (ten years ago) link
keep playing
― johnny crunch, Monday, 9 December 2013 21:10 (ten years ago) link
hardcore?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 9 December 2013 22:23 (ten years ago) link
original & best iphone addiction
― =(3 Ɛ)= (cozen), Monday, 9 December 2013 22:27 (ten years ago) link
ya
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 9 December 2013 23:10 (ten years ago) link
I play eighty eight now like a turncoat. they have random exploding blocks to help clear out some of the log jam when the luck of the draw keeps kicking you in the balls
― panettone for the painfully alone (mayor jingleberries), Tuesday, 10 December 2013 00:43 (ten years ago) link
hardcore?― socki (s1ocki), Monday, December 9, 2013 5:23 PM
si
― am0n, Tuesday, 10 December 2013 00:59 (ten years ago) link
normal mode too
broke a mil, should prob never play ever again
http://i.imgur.com/bMk0eSc.png
― johnny crunch, Monday, 30 June 2014 00:57 (nine years ago) link
whoooaaa
― call all destroyer, Monday, 30 June 2014 01:06 (nine years ago) link
damn congrats! still can't go higher than 850k.also the other day i got three clear the board bonuses in a row (cleared the board then got a 1 then another 1) and then got horrible luck and barely managed to get to 450k points, such a disappointment
― Jibe, Monday, 30 June 2014 05:24 (nine years ago) link
jesus christ
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 June 2014 11:59 (nine years ago) link
damn
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:02 (nine years ago) link
http://imgur.com/INBAMFW
finally got to a million too, came to upload the exact same screenshot as johnny crunch :)
― Jibe, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 15:46 (nine years ago) link
so of course i screw up the screen shothttp://i.imgur.com/INBAMFW.jpg?1
goodjob jibe!
― johnny crunch, Tuesday, 16 September 2014 17:15 (nine years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HUWgzVQ.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 17 September 2015 13:04 (eight years ago) link
Played it for the first time on an iPad mini, and holy cow, it was in my face.
― pplains, Thursday, 17 September 2015 13:05 (eight years ago) link
No ads or anything, but it opening up Facebook without warning surprised me.
Sometimes I get to where there's a row of 1's at the top and no way to topple them, my second-to-last ball comes up as a 2, and I'm like the Greek from "The Wire", waiting under the bridge for someone, putting away the phone and saying, "It isn't going to work out."
― pplains, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:00 (eight years ago) link
I'll also make a dumb mistake, like throwing a 1 away on a tall stack instead of busting a block on the far left, and I hear Norman Chad and Lon McEachern in my head going, "Oh, that was a bad play. He's walking right into it."
― pplains, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:01 (eight years ago) link
Downloaded it on my shitty Android phone and saw the new version for the first time. It even had the dumb "rack 'em!" sound effects at the beginning. What a way to spoil a classic game.
― pplains, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:04 (eight years ago) link
been meaning to read up on the strategy of this game. i play compulsively on the train but keep an average around 100k, sometimes i can get up to around 300k if i clear the board early.
normally i just try and nuke all 1s and 2s while keeping as many 5s, 6s, and 7s on the board, but i assume this is not actually the way to maximize ones score
― J0rdan S., Monday, 11 April 2016 15:28 (eight years ago) link
My first strategy is go a row of sixes and then pile some 7s at the end, so you'll get all those sixes to explode on the third or fourth step of a chain.
My strategy after that is to panic and start busting up anything I can find.
― pplains, Monday, 11 April 2016 15:33 (eight years ago) link
I feel like the success or dareisay genius of this game is that it resists any? most? like absolute strategies imo
like I guess I have a loose strat of trying to eliminate any 6s asap but there are def exceptions to that so ¯\(°_0)/¯
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:47 (eight years ago) link
SO much gambling... "If I get a 2 and bust that one, and it's a 1, then I can move that 4 down..." = basically risking it all on filling an inside straight.
― pplains, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:49 (eight years ago) link
while keeping as many 5s, 6s, and 7s on the board
― J0rdan S., Monday, April 11, 2016 11:28 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink
yeah uh I would say don't do this lol
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 April 2016 17:54 (eight years ago) link
~ On Top of Old Smoke-EEEEY..... ~
http://i.imgur.com/EgP0p8n.png?1
― pplains, Thursday, 16 February 2017 16:36 (seven years ago) link
It ain't a million, but as you can see from my average, I'm very proud of this accomplishment anyway.
https://i.imgur.com/jfUo4S9.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 30 July 2020 18:46 (three years ago) link
Damn you, don't start me playing this again! I'd forgotten about it, re-reading the thread is baffling.
Also, congrats.
― neith moon (ledge), Friday, 31 July 2020 10:42 (three years ago) link
Feel like I'm 18 months on, 9 months off with this game.
― pplains, Friday, 31 July 2020 12:49 (three years ago) link
wtf is blitz mode
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 July 2020 13:30 (three years ago) link
did they cancel the word hardcore
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 July 2020 13:32 (three years ago) link
I didn't even notice, but yeah they did.
It's Classic, Blitz and Sequence now. I will never understand people who play Sequence.
― pplains, Friday, 31 July 2020 21:31 (three years ago) link