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Sheldon, it's true that it's not a game per se, in the sense of high scores or cranky poultry, but it does seem to have found a strong connection...
Nice results! The difference from my estimates are presumably due to having a few 12's and 24's lying around when the big numbers are reached. I...
Done. Thanks for the tip!
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The speed of achieving 1536 is primarily determined by the luck of the bonus tiles, though if you maintain a "tidier" board you can achieve it...
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My hunch is that the variance in number of moves is not going to be significantly different from the variance in "score", which to simplify the...
I noticed the same thing at first, but I think it was just an illusion. I had subconsciously expected the game to get easier due to the '+' hints,...
I started the swipe at the very bottom of the device (on the bezel), but Threes still recognized it as a "move". It looks like iOS pops up the...
30 seconds after the wonderful screenshot below was taken, I was setting up Reflector to capture the big moment on video for posterity -- and...
Another pattern I've found very helpful is to try to make "collapsible" runs of cards, particularly on the edges. For instance, the sequence...
Nice one. I've filed a bug with Apple. It looks like they are using a biased byte to store the base-10 exponent, which only handles [-91..164],...
I find that once I have { 48, 96, 192 } on the board, it takes a lot of discipline to maintain the overall "board health", rather than rush to...
Not as much as you think. Suppose you have { 98304, 196608, 393216, 786432 } on the board, taking up 4 spaces. 9 spaces on the board are...
The upper bound is nearly limitless, due to the bonus cards, which quickly become the only relevant cards as the topmost card gets sufficiently...
If you mean 'atomic' in the thread-safe sense, why not keep counters separately per thread (non-atomic) and combine the counts at the end? A...
Thanks :) There's a surprising amount of information encoded in there. The lowest possible score in Threes is 12, corresponding to e.g. a...
Holy fuzz, that's amazing!! Very impressive results. Open-sourcing is a great idea! You could build a teaching tool that analyzes real-world...
So close and yet so far... I have the Four-Ones Threes Blues! :-( Score 29,640.
Methinks me found a slight bug. Anyone else seeing funny numbers like this on the 'Hall of Records' screen?
