Addicted to such a simple game

[Alex]

While watching the Athletics embarrass themselves to start the season I accumulated the follow million plus scores. That high score (not a typo) involved clearing a 45-block piece.

This version of the game is so slanted towards large pieces over actually clearing the board that there is no reason to focus on actually clearing the board but to simply build a huge piece to remove.

2,025,160,956
48,315,852
7,049,348
1,664,290
1,028,680

[Stan4dSteph]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

While watching the Athletics embarrass themselves to start the season I accumulated the follow million plus scores. That high score (not a typo) involved clearing a 45-block piece.

This version of the game is so slanted towards large pieces over actually clearing the board that there is no reason to focus on actually clearing the board but to simply build a huge piece to remove.

Is that how you do it? I was wondering. My scores have been too low to even post.

[aerobrea]

OMG evil addicting game!!!

[scaeagles]

Wow....billions? I feel......so small. Maybe I should give you mojo for that score.

I had one block today up over 100 million points, but made a booboo when I made a miscalculation and thought I was going to be adding another letter to it and actually split it into two.

And yes, I don't actually try to clear it any longer.

[Not Afraid]

Well, I finially got out of my slump. Current high score, 57, 650.

[scaeagles]

It is some sort of exponential increase depending on the number of blocks you have together when you clear them, but I haven't bothered to figure out the exact progression.

Still haven't cracked the billion mark that Alex set so flippin' high, but I'm regularly over a million now, and have scored above 100 million.

[Alex]

Yeah, the point value of each is determined using a second order recursive sequence (AN+1 = AN + AN-1). So essentially the point value of Block X is equal to the point value of Block (X-1)+Block (X-2). So the point value table of block sizes up to 50 is shown below.

Since the odds of getting multiple very large blocks is unlikely and a block only two or three larger will dwarf the value of the smaller block, the only point-based strategy that makes sense is to get the single largest block you can to the exclusion of any strategy for clearing the board. Essentially play it for a single block and any other small points you get along the way are incidental. scaeagles, I had the second smallest possible block that will score over a billion points, to do likewise you need at least a block of 44. I've found getting blocks of around 30 (1.6 million points) to be relatively simple (maybe 20 percent of games).

2 = 2
3 = 4
4 = 6
5 = 10
6 = 16
7 = 26
8 = 42
9 = 68
10 = 110
11 = 178
12 = 288
13 = 466
14 = 754
15 = 1,220
16 = 1,974
17 = 3,194
18 = 5,168
19 = 8,362
20 = 13,530
21 = 21,892
22 = 35,422
23 = 57,314
24 = 92,736
25 = 150,050
26 = 242,786
27 = 392,836
28 = 635,622
29 = 1,028,458
30 = 1,664,080
31 = 2,692,538
32 = 4,356,618
33 = 7,049,156
34 = 11,405,774
35 = 18,454,930
36 = 29,860,704
37 = 48,315,634
38 = 78,176,338
39 = 126,491,972
40 = 204,668,310
41 = 331,160,282
42 = 535,828,592
43 = 866,988,874
44 = 1,402,817,466
45 = 2,269,806,340
46 = 3,672,623,806
47 = 5,942,430,146
48 = 9,615,053,952
49 = 15,557,484,098
50 = 25,172,538,050

[scaeagles]

Originally Posted by Alex Stroup

scaeagles, I had the second smallest possible block that will score over a billion points, to do likewise you need at least a block of 44. I've found getting blocks of around 30 (1.6 million points) to be relatively simple (maybe 20 percent of games).

I typically get blocks of between 25 and 35 each time I play.

What really ticks me off is when I have a block of over 20 next to a block of the same letter in the high teens and can't join them.

[Motorboat Cruiser]

2.9 million is my personal best.

And I might add, getting up at 7am was just so much fun this morning after staying up until 2:30 staring at colored blocks. I continued to see them long after I went to bed.

Damn you and your damn game, scaeagles! Damn you all to hell.

[wendybeth]

I haven't had too much time to devote to this yet. I'm still running three characters at KoL.

Damn you Prudence!