Mosca
Dec 24, 2007, 02:11 AM
My daughter and I have been playing (on the PC) for about 5 months. We can score into the 500k and 600k range pretty easily, and have gotten above 800k a handful of times, and I have one score over 1.2M.
It seems to me that locks will strike and games will end almost randomly; I can be playing along, and playing well, and then get an "open field" lock (no Fats, no other locks) that will cause a scramble or a "game over". Once I had a 7 layer cascade end in a "no more moves"! On the other hand, it seems that at levels above 10 (in Expert mode), careful play is rewarded, and a three move sequence that breaks a lock is allowed to proceed without itself getting locked.
The game that ended at 1.2M+ lasted several sessions over 2 days, and I couldn't concentrate any more; I let it end gladly. If I'd have known that it was so rare, I would have kept trying!
We still haven't hit the 1M Chuzzle trophy, and we don't know how close we are. Our INFO file only has data that was created during the "free play" trial, and I don't know where to find data that was stored afterward... but it's stored somewhere, because we have all the other "stepping stone" type trophies. But if it takes a total of between 30M and 52M points, then I guess we are getting close!
Tom
It seems to me that locks will strike and games will end almost randomly; I can be playing along, and playing well, and then get an "open field" lock (no Fats, no other locks) that will cause a scramble or a "game over". Once I had a 7 layer cascade end in a "no more moves"! On the other hand, it seems that at levels above 10 (in Expert mode), careful play is rewarded, and a three move sequence that breaks a lock is allowed to proceed without itself getting locked.
The game that ended at 1.2M+ lasted several sessions over 2 days, and I couldn't concentrate any more; I let it end gladly. If I'd have known that it was so rare, I would have kept trying!
We still haven't hit the 1M Chuzzle trophy, and we don't know how close we are. Our INFO file only has data that was created during the "free play" trial, and I don't know where to find data that was stored afterward... but it's stored somewhere, because we have all the other "stepping stone" type trophies. But if it takes a total of between 30M and 52M points, then I guess we are getting close!
Tom