Epic Win is Epic! I make obeisance. You are mighty.
On the day I left for a one week visit to my mother's (complete with joyful day trip to see Eldest Daughter, and take her out for meals) I was startled to see listed in my email correspondents one Richard Dean Anderson. Turns out he was doing one of the many, many, many fundraising emails for Al Franken's re-election campaign. Sadly for Mr. Franken, I'm from Vermont, where we look very much askance at donations in our electoral process that come from out of state, so I'm not likely to be donating to a Minnesota campaign! I do sign petitions concerning things I'm passionate about, which are pretty clearly liberal Democratic causes, so I'm sure that's why I looked like a hopeful target. The photo they used in the mailing was NOT recent, but MacGyver era, to match the theme of the mailing.
I've noticed that, as Stargate moves into the past and becomes the Show From Another Decade, that RDA is becoming more associated with MacGyver again. Instead of "RDA, plays Jack O'Neill on Stargate, played MacGyver way back when if anyone actually remembers", it's now "RDA, famous for playing MacGyver, also played Jack O'Neill on Stargate".
Back is key, because the damned game WILL throw bad tiles in the worst possible place. I suppose you could save with every successful move, or just save every few moves, but that sounds even more tedious. (Let's be honest, this game can be tedious. Fortunately, I also found it very relaxing.)
I ended up doing this (that is, moving from the regular game to this fork) because I'd gotten really frustrated with not being able to save the game state, and I wanted to learn how to handle the upper levels of the layouts. Which you can't do when the game implodes regularly and send you back to square one. The Back feature was an unexpected bonus, at first!
Back would make a huge difference for me. I still play this occasionally, and last night I had a game that was rocking and then I made a boneheaded move by accident. I do that a lot, and I always know when I do it that that's the end or soon will be, so yeah...back would rock. ;)
Believe it or not, I went so far as to create a Reddit login and post this in a thread about the highest possible score. I did find three other people who had played maxed-out games. So it's a small club, but not a solo one. *weg*
It turns out the highest possible score is a few thousand points higher, because you can squeeze out a few more points with 2s versus 4s. I was mostly ignoring the score, because it was the maxed-out tile arrangement that interested me, so what the hey.
*cocks ear for the possible sound of weeping douchefedoras*
Well done! (I don't even pretend to understand this game, though I have smushed about some pretty picture tiles until they stopped when people made them for fandoms I liked, but that's as far as it went.)
See my comment to Vilakins below -- that may shed some light. Or not. It turns out that it's not really a maths game: it's a spacial game, and the numbers are just there to tell you which tiles go in what sequence.
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On the day I left for a one week visit to my mother's (complete with joyful day trip to see Eldest Daughter, and take her out for meals) I was startled to see listed in my email correspondents one Richard Dean Anderson. Turns out he was doing one of the many, many, many fundraising emails for Al Franken's re-election campaign. Sadly for Mr. Franken, I'm from Vermont, where we look very much askance at donations in our electoral process that come from out of state, so I'm not likely to be donating to a Minnesota campaign! I do sign petitions concerning things I'm passionate about, which are pretty clearly liberal Democratic causes, so I'm sure that's why I looked like a hopeful target. The photo they used in the mailing was NOT recent, but MacGyver era, to match the theme of the mailing.
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*DANCES*
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And by that I mean, COOL!
I have yet to even get a 4096. And my game does save, either on my phone or on my computer, but I have no back option.
So, basically, I give up. ;)
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I ended up doing this (that is, moving from the regular game to this fork) because I'd gotten really frustrated with not being able to save the game state, and I wanted to learn how to handle the upper levels of the layouts. Which you can't do when the game implodes regularly and send you back to square one. The Back feature was an unexpected bonus, at first!
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Even when you don't make a mistake, the game will still throw pattern-killers at you, so yeah!
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SRSLY POST THIS TO REDDIT and make all those asshat douchefedoras WEEP
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It turns out the highest possible score is a few thousand points higher, because you can squeeze out a few more points with 2s versus 4s. I was mostly ignoring the score, because it was the maxed-out tile arrangement that interested me, so what the hey.
*cocks ear for the possible sound of weeping douchefedoras*
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But, yay, go you! \o/
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