Comments on: Like Tetris, but chain-y

Like Tetris, but chain-y

aaronetc — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 20:54:40 -0800

Chain Factor - a disappearing-piece Flash puzzle game that may also cause your time to disappear. I am trying to treat my addiction by passing it onto you.

By: flatluigi

flatluigi — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:14:43 -0800

It's also part of an ARG.

By: cashman

cashman — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:16:10 -0800

Cool. I guess I'm crack resistant. It was fun for a time, but it didn't snood me or anything.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 21:59:16 -0800

I honestly don't understand the pattern. Can someone explain this to me?

By: recursion

recursion — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:01:01 -0800

I've seen in mentioned a half dozen times now as the next big addictive game, but it didn't really taken hold of me. I played for an hour or so and didn't really find any deeper structure to suck me in. It is worth a try, though

By: empath

empath — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:06:51 -0800

the circles disappear if the number of circles in their row or column is the same as the number in the circle: if you have a row like so: 5332 67 and drop a 4 in the gap, the 7 will go, then the 6, then the 5 on the end, then the 4, then the 3s until you're left with a 2.

By: tepidmonkey

tepidmonkey — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:06:58 -0800

I honestly don't understand the pattern. Neither did I, but thankfully there's a FAQ.

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:21:39 -0800

Sunday evening quality time with my girlfriend ruined. She isn't happy. aaronetc I wouldn't come over for a while...

By: esome

esome — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:33:12 -0800

The music is strangely crack-like as well.

By: Ms. Saint

Ms. Saint — Sat, 01 Dec 2007 23:03:38 -0800

Woo-hoo! This game took a boring evening of watching SNL and turned it into a distracted evening of watching SNL while playing an online game! I like it.

By: salvia

salvia — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 00:43:07 -0800

And here I thought I was going to work on my taxes tonight...

By: Samizdata

Samizdata — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 02:15:20 -0800

75416? This okay?

By: AndrewStephens

AndrewStephens — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 03:39:36 -0800

The first game I thought it was kind of pointless, but I am getting the hang of it now. The strategy is quite interesting, but I don't think I will be persevering enough to reach the ridiculous high scores posted on the page.

By: Zinger

Zinger — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 07:56:23 -0800

Cool. Took me a bit to start working out a strategy, but I like.

By: Memo

Memo — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:09:01 -0800

84556. I realized too late that the problem are not the high numbers but the low ones.

By: CitrusFreak12

CitrusFreak12 — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 09:10:41 -0800

207,078. Longest chain: 8x. Damn you.

By: fearfulsymmetry

fearfulsymmetry — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 12:39:42 -0800

It's starting to suck me in now... the powers liven it up a lot. Oh curse you, aaronetc. Curse you!

By: doctor_negative

doctor_negative — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 13:41:52 -0800

Wow, and two hours later I came up for air. Thanks aaronetc :)

By: seanmpuckett

seanmpuckett — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 14:55:09 -0800

Needs fewer numbers, more grunting.

By: Johnny Assay

Johnny Assay — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 15:48:04 -0800

At some point in my last game I ended up with 1111111 along a row, with at least one row of grey tiles under it. Don't be like me.

By: salvia

salvia — Sun, 02 Dec 2007 16:30:09 -0800

This game continues to fascinate me. I'm getting the hang of the strategy, but still, every once in a while I trigger some massive domino of erasures without even the slightest idea how it even got started. Now if only I could plan that shit ahead of time.

By: sour cream

sour cream — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 02:05:43 -0800

Level 46, yeah! Also, curse you aaronetc.

By: anotherpanacea

anotherpanacea — Mon, 03 Dec 2007 12:36:17 -0800

This game is actually tied to the television show Numb3rs: it's got a plot! Basically, playing the game is supposed to bring down capitalism. Check out the wiki: Congratulations, you solved The Twelve Zombies, the final lock for Chain Factor. You have triggered the final Chain Factor sequence. Thanks to your efforts a specific string of instructions will soon be executed by automated trading software around the globe. These programs, whose brittle algorithms now guide the turbulent path of the world's wealth through the circuit maze of decadence, oppression, and alienation that we erroneously call the global economy, are linked together by patterns of call and response, move and countermove, predator and prey. The machines listen and react to each other in a language of their own, sometimes flocking together, sometimes scattering, but always circling each other in complex orbits of hide and seek among the options and futures of a universe of money become pure information. But this machine language is a crude parody of the cooperation and competition of a true economy. These machines are not true players, they are only rules. Their complex dance is just a game, and like any game it can be broken. And who broke it? Who carefully extracted the millions of digits needed to map out the resonant frequency of this mechanical language, the sequence that would trigger a recursive spiral, that would destroy the entire corrupt system and allow us to begin again? You did. All day, every day. Millions upon millions of linked micro-decisions. Drop, click. Drop, click. My beautiful army of tireless calculators, seeking nothing but a momentary escape from the prisonhouse of work, responsibility, and reality. I gave you the hardest problem I could imagine, the gravest responsibility, and the harshest reality, and you devoured it like a forest fire. Good game. /s

By: ObscureReferenceMan

ObscureReferenceMan — Tue, 04 Dec 2007 09:07:34 -0800

By: Samuel Farrow

Samuel Farrow — Thu, 06 Dec 2007 21:22:36 -0800

Five days playing solid and still going...