thread of drop 7, also a poll

ya the opening is definitely a thing. i find i try to delay blowing up any numbers until at least the first row. im also obsessed with getting rid of 6s at that stage.

yeah I try not to get rid of anything until the first row appears for maximum grey disc poppage

let's be clear I meant to say breakage

secret 2: build chains. easiest at the beginning, i try to get a column of 7s on one side, bunch of 6s across the bottom with a gap, then fill in the gap when the first grey disks appear. if you're lucky you can get >20,000 in one go, clear that row of disks, rinse and repeat.

this is my ruy lopez. if i start a game and i can't set this up, i quit and go again.

(although i will settle for just one 6, and a 2 will do in the side column, 3 at a push.)

i get really irritated when the opening gives me low numbers sitting above high numbers - i just know they're going to explode uselessly once they get moved up

oh totes

one of the most annoying things is a 2 that appears on level 3

one of the most satisfying thing is drilling underneath it and revealing a 3 for a mini-chian

6s can really fuck up the 'building horizontally' thing. 6 at both sides... grr.

ya

croosh to clear at least one column on the far left or right in order to deal with 6s

xposts yeah - i am ALL ABOUT when a 5, say, is sitting in vertical position 4, above three complete gray discs. and i get a 4. drop that 4 on it, 5 does half the work, 4 does the other half.

ya dropping a lower number onto a number one higher is mad satisfying

another one of life's little pleasures: 1s that appear on the bottom row and instantly wink out of existence

you get five drops per level-up, right. each level = 14 breakages to clear. so you need on average nearly three breakages per drop to stay alive!

that's fucked - only 7s can give you 3 breakages at once! but then you add chains into the mix and you start to have a chance i guess

satisfying gambit:

a 5 sits on two discs. you drop a 3. you drop a 1. profit!

obv this can be expressed in many permutations, it's just so satisfying to complete a stack with a free-standing 1 that disappears and lets you chaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnn

wait waht, any number can break three discs at once?

you guys know about the 70,000 point bonus, yeah? it's if you completely clear the board. i've only gotten it twice (and wasn't fast enough to screen shot it). here it is http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-win-at-drop7.html

^^^did not know about it, but assumed it existed (i've come very close to an empty board many, many times)

haha gbx of course you're right (except 1s)

xp ha was just gonna ask if anyone had done that! super secret bonus was always my hope, now it is confirmed.

oh, yr right about the 1, good catch

the satisfaction of dropping a seven down into a little alcove and busting three at once is just too much for my little brain to bear

oh man i always wondered about clearing the board!

I've been trying to use the new row of discs to my advantage but it's hard (i.e. having a bunch of 4's at level 3 during a level-up) because you need to initiate a chain beforehand in order to get maximum points

think I cleared the borad once in my early early days of playing (and may have been on normal, not hardcore)

the satisfaction of dropping a seven down into a little alcove and busting three at once is just too much for my little brain to bear

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 8:26 AM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

ya although i find it a more sophisticated pleasure when it's like a 2 or 3 or 4, because they only work in that one specific row, whereas a 7 can deliver that anywhere

lol at that blog using photos of his screen... does he not know he can screencap?

clearing the board can happen easiest imo in the first round. everything has to go right of course. now i never try though, because i like to get everything lined up so that the first bump blows a bunch of discs up

how do u shot screencap

home and sleep

*click*

go home and sleep, dude, you're tired

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0014.png

love u drop 7 never change

wau @ rare & secrete bonus! i always wondered abt that too

see if i was playing that dayo i would still hold out hope for that far-right column

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0013.png

love it can't get enough

RIP

my strategy of late is to keep the edges of the board as clear as possible so the worst is when 5s and 6s show up there.

fuck all youse guys

Had that board-clear bonus twice. I long for it again. Feel like if I had a super-logic brain I could see a pattern for dropping numbers on a bottom row that would give me maximum chance at it.

I can only wish for that board-clear bonus. Every time I get close to it, with only a few numbers left, they're always gray disks that happened to be high numbers.
Also, I can only dream of this : clear the board, get a 1 afterwards and you're up 140k points! Always a good way to start your game.

ya although i find it a more sophisticated pleasure when it's like a 2 or 3 or 4, because they only work in that one specific row, whereas a 7 can deliver that anywhere

yes yes

just pulled off a 12x chain! not sure how I feel about going for combos. even at 12x each disc was only giving me like 2-3000 points. a level up is 17000. feel like if you want a high score in hardcore you just gotta go for pure survival, chains be fucked. can be a good way to start off a game though if you get a right distribution of discs

every point counts

and chains just mean more numbers destroyed, so it's all good

big news

got my first clear the board bonus

then proceeded to have a really terrible game

never gotten a board clear ;_;

ever since I started learning to think & build horizontally I've been big timing my games

raised my average by 5k in just a few days

psyched, considering wiping the board and starting clean just to have a more realistic average score reflected

haha i thought of that too

i feel its disrespectful to your younger self tho

original & best iphone addiction

ya

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

hardcore?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, December 9, 2013 5:23 PM

si

normal mode too

broke a mil, should prob never play ever again

http://i.imgur.com/bMk0eSc.png

whoooaaa

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

jesus christ

damn

http://imgur.com/INBAMFW

finally got to a million too, came to upload the exact same screenshot as johnny crunch :)

so of course i screw up the screen shot
http://i.imgur.com/INBAMFW.jpg?1

goodjob jibe!

http://i.imgur.com/HUWgzVQ.jpg

Played it for the first time on an iPad mini, and holy cow, it was in my face.

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."

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."

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.

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

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.

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)/¯

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.

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

~ On Top of Old Smoke-EEEEY..... ~

http://i.imgur.com/EgP0p8n.png?1

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

Damn you, don't start me playing this again! I'd forgotten about it, re-reading the thread is baffling.

Also, congrats.

Feel like I'm 18 months on, 9 months off with this game.

wtf is blitz mode

did they cancel the word hardcore

I didn't even notice, but yeah they did.

It's Classic, Blitz and Sequence now. I will never understand people who play Sequence.