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
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:10 (thirteen years ago) link
6s can really fuck up the 'building horizontally' thing. 6 at both sides... grr.
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:12 (thirteen years ago) link
ya
croosh to clear at least one column on the far left or right in order to deal with 6s
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:13 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:14 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:16 (thirteen years ago) link
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!
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:20 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:21 (thirteen years ago) link
^^^did not know about it, but assumed it existed (i've come very close to an empty board many, many times)
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:22 (thirteen years ago) link
haha gbx of course you're right (except 1s)
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
xp ha was just gonna ask if anyone had done that! super secret bonus was always my hope, now it is confirmed.
― ledge, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:23 (thirteen years ago) link
oh, yr right about the 1, good catch
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:24 (thirteen years ago) link
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, 6 October 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
oh man i always wondered about clearing the board!
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:26 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
think I cleared the borad once in my early early days of playing (and may have been on normal, not hardcore)
― 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
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:27 (thirteen years ago) link
lol at that blog using photos of his screen... does he not know he can screencap?
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:28 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:29 (thirteen years ago) link
how do u shot screencap
― the only truffuluther on ilx (gbx), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:30 (thirteen years ago) link
home and sleep
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
*click*
― con suelo, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
go home and sleep, dude, you're tired
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:31 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0014.png
love u drop 7 never change
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:34 (thirteen years ago) link
wau @ rare & secrete bonus! i always wondered abt that too
― johnny crunch, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:35 (thirteen years ago) link
see if i was playing that dayo i would still hold out hope for that far-right column
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0013.png
love it can't get enough
― Sent via BlackBerry from T-Mobile (dayo), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:39 (thirteen years ago) link
RIP
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 12:40 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― call all destroyer, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 13:36 (thirteen years ago) link
fuck all youse guys
― congratulations (n/a), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:17 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― portrait of velleity (woof), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:23 (thirteen years ago) link
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.
― Jibe, Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:29 (thirteen years ago) link
yes yes
― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, 6 October 2010 14:34 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Sunday, 10 October 2010 11:25 (thirteen years ago) link
every point counts
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Sunday, 10 October 2010 15:15 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Monday, 11 October 2010 14:12 (thirteen years ago) link
never gotten a board clear ;_;
― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 October 2010 14:18 (thirteen years ago) link
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
― dayo, Monday, 11 October 2010 14:19 (thirteen years ago) link
haha i thought of that too
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Monday, 11 October 2010 14:24 (thirteen years ago) link
i feel its disrespectful to your younger self tho
I suck so hard at this game.
― congratulations (n/a), Monday, 11 October 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
wonder what my iphone's drop7scores.xls looks like
― dayo, Monday, 11 October 2010 14:26 (thirteen years ago) link
so are we gonna start swapping hi scores here?
― licorice oratorio (baaderonixx), Monday, 11 October 2010 15:24 (thirteen years ago) link
mines 549041, tho have only broke 500k 3x
― johnny crunch, Monday, 11 October 2010 15:32 (thirteen years ago) link
565034 and i also only have three in the 500k's
― call all destroyer, Monday, 11 October 2010 15:35 (thirteen years ago) link
i thought we were voting on which ones to click on !
― F-Unit (Ste), Monday, 11 October 2010 15:36 (thirteen years ago) link
http://grab.by/grabs/e7d07b1ad9067d610499c38db541127f.png
― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Monday, 11 October 2010 17:20 (thirteen 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 (ten years ago) link
jesus christ
― TracerHandVEVO (Tracer Hand), Monday, 30 June 2014 11:59 (ten years ago) link
damn
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, 30 June 2014 13:02 (ten 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 (ten 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 (ten years ago) link
http://i.imgur.com/HUWgzVQ.jpg
― pplains, Thursday, 17 September 2015 13:04 (nine 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 (nine 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 (four 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 (four years ago) link
Feel like I'm 18 months on, 9 months off with this game.
― pplains, Friday, 31 July 2020 12:49 (four years ago) link
wtf is blitz mode
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 July 2020 13:30 (four years ago) link
did they cancel the word hardcore
― johnny crunch, Friday, 31 July 2020 13:32 (four 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 (four years ago) link