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03-13-2011 , 01:47 PM
For the puzzle maniacs under you: this game is a must. It is a very simple, yet very deep game. It is a very quick game - just a couple of minutes to complete it.

You play 1-2 games and you understand the rules
You play 10-20 games and you have found a decent strategy
You play 100-200 games and every time you find ways to optimize, adjust and tune your play.

The game´s website is here

The game was invented by zac777 and introduced in this 2+2 thread here.

There are different modes of play:
  • Normal
  • Advanced, in which you can manipulate throws. You will be able to manipulate more if you play more, gain more points and move up in player level.
  • Timed, real time multiplayer mode with chat. 3 minutes per game and everyone faces the same 9 throws, trying to outscore each other. Very challenging. My favorite mode.
  • Daily challenge, in which everyone can participate and try and make the maximum score with a fixed sequence of throws. Find the path to the topscore and beat the rest of the world. I try and find a moment every day to compete in the daily challenge (currently 14 wins )

You will need to create an account to play advanced, timed or the daily challenge.

An utterly sick strat post was made by Dynasty here. Don´t read this until you have played at least 10-20 games.
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03-13-2011 , 03:11 PM
Cool game. Got up to around 12k before getting mass 2s for the middle spots which killed my bonus.
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03-13-2011 , 03:43 PM
no thanks. douche in the chat there.
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03-13-2011 , 04:16 PM
lol. I'm sure gabe didn't mean anything insulting by that.

Fun game regardless, hit 20k with only 3 chains, two of them being 16 and 24
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03-13-2011 , 04:21 PM
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Originally Posted by dnkyhunter31
no thanks. douche in the chat there.
LOL

I´m that douche and one of the game playing tards in here. The word degens did not occur to me when I wrote that sentence, would have been better though.
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03-13-2011 , 04:25 PM
Damn CPhoya beat me by 500, gonna have to put some time into this.

Who is Zac btw? Systolic?

Edit: NVM I'm ahead of him by 200
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03-13-2011 , 04:47 PM
20,376 after 4 tries.
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03-13-2011 , 04:53 PM
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Originally Posted by ibavly
Damn CPhoya beat me by 500, gonna have to put some time into this.

Who is Zac btw? Systolic?

Edit: NVM I'm ahead of him by 200
It's me. Hope you guys enjoy the game - let me know either here or in chat if you have any feedback.
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03-13-2011 , 05:15 PM
ibavly caught the triplechain virus

Try and beat my daily score - I guessed it almost perfect today.
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03-13-2011 , 05:32 PM
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Originally Posted by Gabethebabe
LOL

I´m that douche and one of the game playing tards in here. The word degens did not occur to me when I wrote that sentence, would have been better though.
oh... well i appoligize for that then. i got mini tilted when i saw someone calling pog tards.
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03-13-2011 , 05:34 PM
1. Anon 23972

cool game
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03-13-2011 , 05:37 PM
Had a decent run going then rolled 5 1s. lol

My high is 34k
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03-13-2011 , 05:39 PM
Is their any taboo over hitting new game til I get a roll I like?

I basically just wait to get 2 6s and no 3s
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03-13-2011 , 05:39 PM
i got 26k early, then regressed, then began to understand that i'd have to stop just clicking pseudorandomly and think about game dynamics/strategy in order to improve, so quit

Fun game.
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03-13-2011 , 05:41 PM
34k is not bad at all.
Even if you play perfectly, you will get 34K in less than 1/10 games, I think.
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03-13-2011 , 05:43 PM
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Originally Posted by ibavly
Is their any taboo over hitting new game til I get a roll I like?
Why not?

You want 1s, 2s and 6s preferably. Anything else is suboptimal.
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03-13-2011 , 07:31 PM

Last edited by essedarius; 03-13-2011 at 07:31 PM. Reason: pic or it didn't happen
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03-13-2011 , 11:17 PM
Annoyingly addictive.

Lucked into a 34740 just now, but no pic so it clearly didn't happen.
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03-13-2011 , 11:50 PM
33579's my best so far. I got about 20K on the last turn, was extremely lucky
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03-14-2011 , 03:25 AM
Jay I won the daily challenge yesterday.
I f*cked up todays challenge. My main chain is 2 too short and I misplayed the bonus.
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03-14-2011 , 03:27 AM
such an addictive game got 32k at one point
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03-14-2011 , 03:56 AM
Won a timed challenge vs gabe and zac so I'm happy with that.

I think one of my leaks might be going for too strong of a third chain. Looking at people's top scores one of the main themes is a small third chain. That might just be due to the variance of needing to get a bunch of 6s in a row to rake in the points. It's a completely different game if you're playing for high score or max EV too. If I'm just trying to get on the leaderboard I'm just gonna place my pieces hoping for a perfect roll. When playing the challenge or timed games there is a bit more subtlety.
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03-14-2011 , 04:00 AM


best yet
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03-14-2011 , 04:05 AM
If I ever figure out the rules, I will be dangerous.
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03-14-2011 , 04:25 AM
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Originally Posted by kioshk
If I ever figure out the rules, I will be dangerous.
You should have figured them out in max 3 games.

Made 40K today in a daily challenge vs zac and ibavly. That´s pretty rare. After that ibavly striked back pretty hard, having 40K with 2 dice to place (unfortunately for him, these were two 1s that messed up his bonus). He still won though. Pretty good for a newcomer to beat two experienced players in Timed.
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