Entanglement

April 10, 2011 12:23 PM

Entanglement Place hexagonal tiles to create a winding path around the playing field. Longer paths earn more points, and the game ends when your path ends.
posted by boo_radley (15 comments total)

I've been addicted to this game for weeks! There was a neat little calculation of the highest possible score, which is interestingly not an entangled path.
posted by bessel functions seem unnecessarily complicated at 12:25 PM on April 10, 2011 [3 favorites]

Previously. (But I do enjoy the reminder.)
posted by Kalthare at 12:31 PM on April 10, 2011

Won't load for me
posted by Lukenlogs at 12:32 PM on April 10, 2011

Double.
posted by .kobayashi. at 12:32 PM on April 10, 2011

Ah, the URL changed. I wondered how this could have passed metafilter by.
posted by boo_radley at 12:35 PM on April 10, 2011

It's like my grandma used to say--you can't go wrong with hexagons.
posted by box at 12:37 PM on April 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

But then again, your grandma was a bee.
posted by boo_radley at 12:40 PM on April 10, 2011 [4 favorites]

Cute little pasttime game. Exactly the kind I can play for a little bit without fearing the dreaded *click* of the switch in the back of my brain which means that suddenly 56 hours are gone and I haven't even used the restroom. I enjoyed dabbling in it. Thanks for posting. Sorry about the double.
posted by hippybear at 12:44 PM on April 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

At least the graphics and sound have been sexed up since the first post.
posted by Appropriate Username at 12:48 PM on April 10, 2011

fun! And I must have missed it the first time it was posted, so, thanks. A bit hard sometimes to trace some of the paths through the hex you're laying down, though
posted by xbonesgt at 1:06 PM on April 10, 2011

Appropriate Username: "At least the graphics and sound have been sexed up since the first post"

They've actually changed a whole lot: the theming (abstract to Japanese), music, google integration and micropayments. They were featured in Google's web store and got a huge bump from that.
posted by boo_radley at 1:40 PM on April 10, 2011

For a twist try 6-player by yourself. The board is bigger and you can come up with some awesomely long runs.
posted by BeerFilter at 2:59 PM on April 10, 2011 [1 favorite]

Horrible user interface. After 3 "FUCK!"s, I closed it. Perhaps it's compelling, but whatever.
posted by sutt at 3:00 PM on April 10, 2011

sutt: "Horrible user interface. After 3 "FUCK!"s, I closed it. Perhaps it's compelling, but whatever"

Keyboard. Much better than the mouse interface.
posted by boo_radley at 3:14 PM on April 10, 2011

Not sure what's so difficult about the interface. There are 4 places to click -- the swap corner in the lower left, the two rotation arrows to the lower left and lower right of the piece you're contemplating, and the piece itself which puts it into place.

Is there something more sophisticated in the UI than I have seen? Because that's pretty much all I saw, and I got a score of 80 on my second try.
posted by hippybear at 3:22 PM on April 10, 2011