thread of drop 7, also a poll

still one of the best polls on ILX. still don't know why 4 gets such a bad rap tho when 1 is clearly the brutalest

obv 1's being hatched is nagl anywhere xcept the bottom row or as unboardered entities but having them drop is rarely a problem so..

i havent played this game in like 6 months but i LOVED re-reading this thread. i think it may contain some of my finest writing, on ilx or professionally.

it also led me to re-download it. kinda sad it's a ZYNGA game tho now

i never quite understood how to get past the most basic level of play (read: i sucked), which is probably why i never got addicted

it also led me to re-download it. kinda sad it's a ZYNGA game tho now

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:38 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this was super lame

this game is probably the only game on my phone that i still play often. it still infuriates me as often as when i started playing. i introduced my cousin to this game and she has become so good at it, her high score is in the 1 million range.

also does drop7 being a zynga game change anything ? i mean, good for the guy for making some money from this terrific game.

it's good for him, but I will never give Zynga a dime.

oh god its back in my life

is there drop7 rehab?

My wwf co-worker sits behind me and asks, do I need to nudge you for a new word?

hello im johnny crunch and im powerless w/r/t drop7

i just got 877k on this

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.

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

My highest hardcore is 565k. I've got a long ways to go.

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?

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.

i know this game so well. it's like an old, intimate enemy.

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.

someone got lucky.

can't seem to crack 300k on this

help

keep playing

hardcore?

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