RebA!
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Post by RebA! on Oct 3, 2005 21:18:06 GMT
I keep trying to make a really hard board. I think i finally have made one. So far its a 10k point getter, I dont think any of my previous boards have been in the 10k range. I feel all giddy now. So far only two persons has won it.
I think i will make try at making a 750 tiled one next. I dont like playing big boards. My max is about 400-500 tiles. So thats why I dont make big ones.
I just hope this one stays at 10k points. Its mount saint helens btw if you want to play it.
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Post by aiwendil on Oct 3, 2005 22:19:21 GMT
Haha! I don't like playing the really big ones either. But they are fun to build.
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Post by Pinky on Oct 4, 2005 4:17:07 GMT
I love a challenge reba i will play it, I defeated Bikini TWICE , and hollow tube after 87 tries, and I finally defeated castlevania, in a very slow time,
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Sparkling Lady
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Post by Sparkling Lady on Oct 4, 2005 15:07:16 GMT
Loved your "St Helens" layout! I guess I got to it to late to get the 10,000 points but I did get 9,500! I had a great time playing it.
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Post by nikkii on Feb 14, 2006 6:28:11 GMT
My Husband the Love Rat makes some really hard games and I just can't do them I don't know if I am just dumb or what but can't do them. I don't know how other people feel about the really hard games but I shy away from them. Nikkii (Michigan)
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RebA!
Mini Mahjong
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Post by RebA! on Feb 14, 2006 16:39:45 GMT
Ya know.. i still havent made a 10k board. Its frustrating to say the least. It seems my boards always wind up easier than everyone elses. I just dont understand it. I slide that slider to ten yet, still I wind up with the easiest boards ever.
I'm still trying and in the mean time.. well there are 54 boards out there that arent that hard.
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Post by Gerda on Feb 14, 2006 18:16:27 GMT
In my opinion, <1 % layouts are created accidental. I have some feeling I (Adreg) made one. Never intended to do so. I like to make nice nasty towers. Some more easy, others more difficult, But never too. Just a challenge. This time I putted in my feelings of the moment. It is created in flow. I guess it needs flow again to solve it.
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Post by Pinky on Feb 15, 2006 10:45:14 GMT
I am no expert but, i have 2 or 3 2% layouts, Gerda is right about it being accidently, although there are a few things you may like to try 1. not all hard layouts are 750 tiles...Hollow tube has only 298 tiles, but the design is compact and traps tiles I chose this as an example because my son made this, with no intent of it being so difficult. bikini is also made up of two circulars and is also very difficult sometimes with large layouts there are more matches 2. a circular diamond design such as there is only two matches to start, thus leaving trapped tiles which have to be freed to win the layout some big layouts are easier because there are less trapped tiles anyway, just a suggestion happy creating. but all in all i do not think there is a perfect scientific solution to the perfect puzzle.
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Post by antz on Feb 25, 2006 18:28:22 GMT
I've gotten pretty lucky in creating (...but not solving) a few 1%ers...using the above tile pattern and making towers definately make the layout harder. I have also found that disrupting the concentricity of the layout really helps too, by putting lids on things, or building seperate little towers off to the side of the main object. If the layout is pretty concentric, it seems to not be all that difficult to solve...
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Post by Pinky on Feb 28, 2006 2:41:56 GMT
well done on your "luck" antz I cannot build big layouts, the game freezes if i try over 600 tiles. but there are some layout that just are hard for example "easy 31" only 42 tiles !! yes 42 tiles, by chriss2afaster ... I think this started out a a speedie and is now a 2%, or was it? try it ?
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Post by naojason on Feb 28, 2006 3:27:31 GMT
well done on your "luck" antz I cannot build big layouts, the game freezes if i try over 600 tiles. but there are some layout that just are hard for example "easy 31" only 42 tiles !! yes 42 tiles, by chriss2afaster ... I think this started out a a speedie and is now a 2%, or was it? try it ? most of the "easy" series is a pain. I can beat them, but it takes lots of undos.
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Post by gbaiko on Feb 28, 2006 5:07:16 GMT
chriss2a faster is a great designer, he has a lot of larged-sized challenging layouts too, with terrific designs. I've enjoyed his 'easy' series - it's a lot of fun doing them on speed mode. If you know which column to go for, you can get through some of them quickly. Some take a few tries though! Nice little puzzles.
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Post by gbaiko on Feb 28, 2006 5:10:53 GMT
The game freezes for me too if I try to build large layouts. Even 260-tile layouts that go to 20 layers, once you build past layer 18 and try to save ... game freeze.
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Post by antz on Feb 28, 2006 8:02:55 GMT
I have had the same problem with brain freeze (myself, and the game freezing too... )...it only does it for me when I use all 20 layers when building a toughie...so far if I keep it at 19 layers or less, I've been able to save any mess I want. As for those 'easy' layouts, I like to play them on concentration mode...I figure there are usually two columns; one being solid from top to bottom, and one being broken at various points. If you use the tiles from the broken column to match only to the unbroken column, you can beat it with a bit of plunking around...although a few of those 'easy's are a bit less obvious than others...
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RebA!
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Post by RebA! on Feb 28, 2006 16:28:04 GMT
I'm still going with that the game doesnt like me and thats why I cannot create a 1% layout. I betcha, if someone else made the same layouts I have it wouldnt be as easy.
So i'm giving up trying to make a hard 1%'r at least for a while and stick with fun layouts, made 3 fun ones yesterday, Ballarina @the Bar, Streching and Play it again Sam.
I guess I just dont have logical mind or who knows whats needed to make the 1%'rs.
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RebA!
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Post by RebA! on Mar 4, 2006 16:51:48 GMT
This is just so darn frustrating. I just dont understand what I'm doing wrong. OK ok.. i didnt give up trying to make a 1% or even a 2%. I just dont know. Some people its so easy for them.. whats so wrong with me that i cant figure this out. Everything i make comes out so wicked easy. ANd i dont know why. I look at the really hard layouts and try to design em similar. Still I get nothing..
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Post by Gerda on Mar 4, 2006 17:05:02 GMT
I assume, you don't forget to pull the difficulty to level 10, do you?
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RebA!
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Post by RebA! on Mar 4, 2006 17:31:18 GMT
I slide that slider to ten yet, still I wind up with the easiest boards ever. Yep. Still no matter what.. no matter what.... my boards are always easier than everyone elses. And its frustrating.. i dont need a karma point to make me feel better.. i just want a board that is 10k.. just one. If i make one.. i will be content. I just want to know what i'm doing wrong.. Sure not all the boards i've made I made with the purpose of being hard. But still I just want one.
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Post by Gerda on Mar 4, 2006 17:49:34 GMT
The one you shared just a few minute ago, seems difficult enough. I don't know how to make a hardest layout. I make layouts for the fun of making. I give you a karma right away. Just don't give up. Look to Antz, Rammie and Da Love Rat. They're good hardest layouts creators.
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RebA!
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Post by RebA! on Mar 4, 2006 17:58:33 GMT
The one I just made is at 11% right now. So its not hard at all. I look at other peoples layouts all the time. Still I suck at this. I'm just so frustrated that I'm ready just to delete the whole game, just so the torment wont be there anymore.
I just wish i knew what I was doing wrong.
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