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RegDwigнt

15:24

OMGOMGOMG

KitFox

Squee!

RegDwigнt

Of course after that the board is in terrible disorder.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt Wow! You win.

@RegDwigнt OMG a freak number!

What's tile saying?

It's over 384!

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus No, I lose.

Cerberus

There must be something wrong with your computer.

RegDwigнt

15:28

Cerberus

WTF!!

RegDwigнt

But I'll take the 20145.

Cerberus

Whose score is that?

RegDwigнt

It's still the same game, you funny.

Cerberus

jaw drops

KitFox

15:29

w00t!! Nice one, @Reg.

Cerberus

So what was your record when I scored OVER 9000? Lower?

RegDwigнt

This guy has a 22782.

Plus a strategy remarkably similar to mine.

However, he's a cheator.

Cerberus

Let me at least have a temporary victory...

RegDwigнt

Turns out, on iPad you can preview moves.

I can't do that here.

Cerberus

OMG.

That would make it 1000 % easier.

RegDwigнt

15:30

Yeah.

@KitFox thank you.

Cerberus

I often can't risk moving my baseline away from the edge.

For fear that my 384 might end up away from the edge, like...in the centre. shivers

RegDwigнt

Yup.

In this game, I kept it in the corner came hell or high water.

Cerberus

Don't you feel you're sometimes forced to risk the corner?

RegDwigнt

There's still a luck factor involved, of course.

Cerberus

Absolutely.

RegDwigнt

15:32

@Cerberus yes, that's part of what I mean by luck.

Sometimes the only non-immediately-losing move is away from the corner. Everything else is your last move.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt By the way, this proves it: Ipad is less intelligent than PC.

Exactly.

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus You needed a proof for that?

Cerberus

I didn't need it, but it was still nice!

It's like...some 96 in a different corner that you didn't see coming.

Are you suffering from the Tetris effect yet?

Matt Эллен

in The Bridge, 3 mins ago, by Matt Эллен

A steam powered goat stimulator? Is it safe for children to use?

in The Bridge, 2 mins ago, by GnomeSlice

@MattЭллен simulator *

yeah... but... jokes?

RegDwigнt

@Cerberus no! Quite surprisingly.

I thought I would dream of the game, but I didn't.

And I played till like four in the morning.

KitFox

15:45

My boys want to play it.

RegDwigнt

Which was nonsense, of course. My worst game this morning was still better than my best game yesterday.

You do have to have a fresh head.

KitFox

I said "NO! You has to do maths for game! NOT FOR CHILLUNS!"

RegDwigнt

Alas, I couldn't stop.

TylerH

Is there a particular method of reporting a user who has gone rogue and change his username to something vulgar after leaving repeated cursing comments directed toward SE in general? (Other than reporting an answer/question and entering a custom "Moderator Attention" answer)

RegDwigнt

@KitFox no child left ahead!

KitFox

15:46

Right.

Matt Эллен

ahead

KitFox

@TylerH That's pretty much the method.

RegDwigнt

@TylerH yeah what Kit says.

KitFox

Flagging.

Or find a mod in chat and bring it up.

RegDwigнt

Flag for mod attention and use the "custom" field to explain what the problem is.-

KitFox

15:47

Is this on our site?

RegDwigнt

Or find two mods in chat and bring it up.

TylerH

Yes. Should I link it here?

RegDwigнt

But that involves linking, which is not always advisable.

Flags are behind-the-scenes.

So do as you wish at your own discretion.

TylerH

it is a certain metonym question

RegDwigнt

K lemme see.

TylerH

15:48

I'm assuming moderators can see deleted comments

KitFox

I found it and changed the username.

TylerH

thanks

RegDwigнt

@KitFox Oh I see.

By which I mean, I couldn't see it.

KitFox

Crud. Let me get a CM.

RegDwigнt

So I went to the metonyms tag, and thought it was this one:

KitFox

15:48

bbl

RegDwigнt

Proffesor In English

89 1 1 5

TylerH

ouch

that name

RegDwigнt

Yeah.

I think he's been around forever, though.

Cerberus

@RegDwigнt I actually went through a dip where I was clicking tiles at random and getting 170, and then by 4 AM my head cleared up and I got my record, I think.

RegDwigнt

Mar 7 '11 at 18:21, by RegDwight

Proffesor In English

13 1

figures-of-speech

He hasn't come far, to boot.

Cerberus

15:49

Has to be a joke.

RegDwigнt

76 points in three years.

@Cerberus of course. Unless it is not.

@Cerberus yeah, that. Except my dip was at 109.

109! Try and match that.

Matt Эллен

I don't always profess things, but when I do I do it in English.

RegDwigнt

Haha, Matt ruined the joke by misspelling the misspelling.

Speaking of which, how many hundreds of votes is that joke answer at yet?

162. Geezis.

TylerH

wich?

Which*

RegDwigнt

You can press the up arrow to edit your stuff here.

That being said, the water question.

I am not linking to it, of course.

Don't want to get it even moar stray views.

TylerH

15:53

Ah thanks re: edit

RegDwigнt

I think our highest answer is at 332 right now.

My highest is 100 below that.

And it took them four years to get there, not two days.

The wonders of the MultiCollider.

Matt Эллен

@RegDwigнt is a joke ruiner extrodinaire

TylerH

I just got a score of 142. I don't understand that three game.

Cerberus

Stop hogging my time, Matt's game!

@TylerH The first couple of games, it seems pointless and random. But then...

RegDwigнt

20 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

1. You can only add a one to a two. 2. You can only add any other number to the same number.

TylerH

15:57

Maybe I figured it out

I just scored 421

RegDwigнt

That's not bad at all for a second try.

In fact that's not bad at all, period.

TylerH

Didn't know those rules though

I was just trying to combine things into multiples of 3

RegDwigнt

That's the goal!

TylerH

Nice

KitFox

I deleted a few of your comments., @Tyler. Just wanted to let you know.

TylerH

16:02

Still haven't quite figured out how it determines which lines move. Maybe it's all possible lines that have a move that also don't have any illegal moves.

KitFox

They were fine, but I felt I should just remove all fire-making materials.

TylerH

I saw, KitFox. I figured that would be best ultimately. I didn't delete them on my own due to not wanting to leave the other guy's comments without context.

RegDwigнt

@TylerH all lines move all at once. If there are four tiles in a line, it does not move, but an addition is tried to be executed.

20 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

So a 3 3 3 3, moved <- will become a 6 3 3 _.

20 hours ago, by RegDwigнt

But if it's a 3 6 12 6, you cannot move it in either direction. It's blocked.

TylerH

I see. It will only add when there are four tiles in a line

KitFox

@TylerH Thanks for the heads up.

TylerH

16:05

and it can only add like numbers, as you mentioned earlier

@KitFox no problem

egads this game is going to be a huge timesink D-:

RegDwigнt

@TylerH not quite, it will add whenever a move would otherwise kick a tile off the board.

So a 3 3 3 3, moved to the left, will become a 6 3 3 _, but a 3 3 _ _ moved to the left will still be added to a 6 _ _ _ .

TylerH

ahh

RegDwigнt

However, moved to the right it will become a _ 3 3 _ .

And moved twice more, it will be a _ _ _ 6.

KitFox

OK, the food smells are making me nuts. Must have lunch. bbl

RegDwigнt

Actually very soon you develop an instinctive understanding of which tiles will move how.

TylerH

16:11

Sweet, I just got 1031!

RegDwigнt

Congrats.

TylerH

I guess the '96' tile counts a lot?

How is it scored?

RegDwigнt

I am not sure if this clone keeps the system of the original:

TylerH

That screenshot quite effectively crushed my high spirits

RegDwigнt

Each layer gets three times the points of the last. With ones and twos not counting at all.

@TylerH nah. I almost got there earlier today, and I've been playing for just a day and a half.

48 mins ago, by RegDwigнt

Of course for a 768 you need both a strategy and some luck.

Just one out of two won't suffice.

TylerH

16:17

Yeah, I had to think hard to get a 96 tile

Can't imagine a 768 quite yet :-X

RegDwigнt

It's just three steps more. :P

Cerberus

Only three.

I need to install this on my phone.

I could have sworn I read a review of this game on Android Police a while ago, but I can't find it.

RegDwigнt

That guy's blog read as if it only was released a couple weeks ago.

KitFox

omg this kung pao is great.

om nom nom

TylerH

-_-

Still 35 minutes yet until I can go to lunch.

KitFox

16:24

I'll share.

TylerH

<3

KitFox

I can't understand places that don't let you eat when you're hungry.

That's why I got this high-paying gig, so I can eat when I want to.

TylerH

what gig?

KitFox

My real life job.

TylerH

and I mean, I guess I could go eat now, but I'd rather wait until noon, otherwise I'll be hungry before 5

obviously :-P

Mitch

16:27

@KitFox I only eat if somebody tells me to. I'm so hungry.

KitFox

Go eat.

TylerH

Mitch is a computer program

RegDwigнt

@Mitch Don't go eat. Just eat.

Mitch

Oh...thank you!

RegDwigнt

Eat more faster.

Mitch

16:28

OK. eating more

RegDwigнt

Unhungry yet?

Mitch

No but feel better.

Matt Эллен

feel butter?

Mitch

no, it gets mushy all over my fingers. I suppose I could use a knife, but that's gauche.

KitFox

Reminds me of Last Tango in Paris.

Unfortunately.

Mitch

16:31

eww...

KitFox

Did you ever go hunting for marshmellows? It's a tricky job.

It's a very tricky job.

You got to have stealth like a camel.

Matt Эллен

like a torpid camel?

RegDwigнt

Torpid or not torpid, that's the question.

KitFox

Ich kampf torpidig.

Matt Эллен

I feel very torpid

KitFox

16:44

Ich laufe torpidig.

Mitch

Find some marshmellows, that'll take care of it.

KitFox

Ich esse marshmellower torpidig.

Mitch

OK then, you're all set.

RegDwigнt

Cool grass blowing up the pass
Don't you know I'm feeling marshmellow
I love your Roman nose, the way you curl your toes baby
Make me feel so marshmellow

Mitch

Or rather Matt should iss just like you.

RegDwigнt

16:46

►

Matt Эллен

I'll not iss at all, if I can help it

I've alerted the authorities

TylerH

be do be do be do

RegDwigнt

Wow, that is OVER 900.

Matt Эллен

:D

KitFox

Thought that was 999 over there.

Matt Эллен

16:55

it is

I've alerted your authorities

the fire brigade will be at your door soon

RegDwigнt

In Russia, it's 01.

Be thankful you haven't alerted their authorities just yet.

KitFox

Ach, in Mother Russia, authorities alert you.

Then you pay.

Matt Эллен

poddle tip

RegDwigнt

Commute!

KitFox

waves

Jasper Loy