I've 'played' it before but it never occurred to me before that it must have a finite top score - at some point all the circles are going to be facing the corner and will refuse to play any more. posted by twine42 at 4:29 AM on September 1, 2006
Previously, I think, but the link in the prior post no longer works. posted by Doofus Magoo at 4:32 AM on September 1, 2006
Oldie but goodie. posted by jsavimbi at 4:38 AM on September 1, 2006
first try: 1743 posted by darkripper at 4:44 AM on September 1, 2006
I got 2170 something after on a run that I basically setup myself. After the board is 'regularized' you can setup some intresting reactions. posted by delmoi at 5:05 AM on September 1, 2006
1866... but then I had to go to work... maybe I'll try again later... posted by WhipSmart at 5:43 AM on September 1, 2006
Played it before. Got 482 this time. Then got bored. Is there any kind of strategy at all or is it just dumb luck? posted by afx237vi at 6:09 AM on September 1, 2006
It's kinda like the Game Of Life, except with a random board, and points. OK, it's not much like it. But it's pretty random, I think, unless you look dozens of rotations ahead in some savant way. Makes jonson's flash ball game look like chess, though.. posted by imperium at 6:41 AM on September 1, 2006
Played it before. Got 482 this time. Then got bored. Is there any kind of strategy at all or is it just dumb luck?
There is, after playing for a while all the peices will end up facing about the same direction, once that happens you can usually shift whole rows or columns without affecting anything else. Once you do that, you can setup a cascade that will pretty much fill up the whole screen. posted by delmoi at 7:08 AM on September 1, 2006
I was going to link to that chaos theory game in this post, but someone had to go and post it on thursday. There's a swf only copy of the game on that site so you don't have to look at annoying ads if you want to play it. posted by delmoi at 7:13 AM on September 1, 2006
Those "annoying ads" provide income to the guy who worked so hard to steal those Flash files. posted by ae4rv at 7:25 AM on September 1, 2006
2134, on my first try... posted by blasdelf at 10:29 AM on September 1, 2006
2441 Suckaz! posted by Mister_A at 10:56 AM on September 1, 2006
first try: 1743
I also got 1743 on my first try. posted by yeti at 11:12 AM on September 1, 2006
It's too bad there doesn't seem to be a way to get the same start screen every time. It would be interesting to see how clicking different starting tiles affected the score. posted by forrest at 12:18 PM on September 1, 2006
Good times and surprisingly relaxing. Makes me want to buy a trunkload of servos and tennis balls and craft a RL one... posted by Ogre Lawless at 12:42 PM on September 1, 2006
Anybody else itching for a whitepaper discussing the math behind the board-state transitions? posted by cortex at 2:30 PM on September 1, 2006
Partly because I'd like to know definitively whether it's possible to arrange a closed cycle, but it's Friday and I'm too lazy to even try and work it out. posted by cortex at 2:31 PM on September 1, 2006
3079 for me. It was glorious! posted by psp200 at 12:38 AM on September 2, 2006
High score since I first saw this making the rounds a while ago: 2383. posted by loquacious at 1:04 AM on September 2, 2006
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