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Subject: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 2:23 pm
Can anyone explain to me the scoring on this game? Somehow I got a top score of 246700 but I don't know what i did ???
Sometimes you get 0 points for making a move, and other times, you get random point values. It almost seems like a glitch or something?
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/07 at 2:25 pm
I was about to post a similar thread, I have noticed that some scores are 0 too, and somehow I scored 53000 odd in one move. I have simply no idea how?
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 2:33 pm
I was about to post a similar thread, I have noticed that some scores are 0 too, and somehow I scored 53000 odd in one move. I have simply no idea how?
And the weird part is that I bet you have not been able to clear the board either?
When I acquired 246700, I didn't notice the rise to that score, just that I came very close to clearing the board. I've come even closer several times later, and haven't even closed in on this score. There must be a solution to this unsolved mystery
Where's Robert Stack when you need him lol
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/07 at 4:13 pm
And the weird part is that I bet you have not been able to clear the board either?
When I acquired 246700, I didn't notice the rise to that score, just that I came very close to clearing the board. I've come even closer several times later, and haven't even closed in on this score. There must be a solution to this unsolved mystery
Where's Robert Stack when you need him lol
So with that score of yours, you did not clear the board then?
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 4:28 pm
So with that score of yours, you did not clear the board then?
Nope. Had I of had the right pieces, i would have been only 3 moves away. It makes me wonder if there is some sort of bonus for clearing the board, but considering there is no time limit in the game, I wouldn't think there would be one?
I googled the game, and found other sites that had it, and someone who achieved a score of 800,000+ in it, doesn't know either how he got that
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/07 at 4:40 pm
Nope. Had I of had the right pieces, i would have been only 3 moves away. It makes me wonder if there is some sort of bonus for clearing the board, but considering there is no time limit in the game, I wouldn't think there would be one?
I googled the game, and found other sites that had it, and someone who achieved a score of 80,000+ in it, doesn't know either how he got that
Anyway I am still giving this game a go just to try and clear the board.
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 4:51 pm
Anyway I am still giving this game a go just to try and clear the board.
Same here. The easiest way to try and clear the board I would think is to keep clicking new game until you get less of the 4 part pieces. They are hard to clear away
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 5:03 pm
In a major, yet not at all surprising disappointment, I cleared the board, and found there to be no bonus, but a very badly worded sentence lol
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7521/rotamaniatn2.jpg
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Philip Eno on 05/27/07 at 5:11 pm
In a major, yet not at all surprising disappointment, I cleared the board, and found there to be no bonus, but a very badly worded sentence lol
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7521/rotamaniatn2.jpg
Well done, but how many points though?
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 5:44 pm
Well done, but how many points though?
16500, which means that finishing the game doesn't even do anything lol
It's all about finding that one move that gets you a ton of points. The moves that I do, which get me top points, look just like any other move that I make, which gets me low points, so it must be all about the chain of moves that happen when you make a move. I will not rest until I figure it out lol
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/27/07 at 8:00 pm
I think I might have figured out the secret ...
When I make a move that involves two blocks, I get 210 points. It seems that I get bigger point values when I make a move that involves using blocks from more than 2 columns (or rows). Follow-up moves apparently don't make the point value any bigger, which means that you are basically throwing away further points
But what I still can't figure out is how the zero points come into play. I think i may need to go back to the drawing board on this one lol
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Red Ant on 05/27/07 at 11:33 pm
In a major, yet not at all surprising disappointment, I cleared the board, and found there to be no bonus, but a very badly worded sentence lol
http://img529.imageshack.us/img529/7521/rotamaniatn2.jpg
Given that screen shot and the horrible instructions, I think the designer of Rotamania was borderline illiterate and now probably mixes paint for a living. I think it's broken, but you guys can keep trying to figure it out, lol.
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 05/28/07 at 12:27 am
Given that screen shot and the horrible instructions, I think the designer of Rotamania was borderline illiterate and now probably mixes paint for a living. I think it's broken, but you guys can keep trying to figure it out, lol.
I would say it is broken as well. There seems to be no real way of getting a good score each time, so I'm giving up on it
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Southern Image on 06/02/07 at 12:31 pm
I have no idea how to even play that game. My scores are just dumb luck :D
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/04/07 at 1:41 pm
Somehow I have just scored 74140 on Rotamania, do not ask me how I did it.
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: whistledog on 06/07/07 at 12:08 am
Somehow I have just scored 74140 on Rotamania, do not ask me how I did it.
I still wanna know how I broke 20,000. It has to be a glitch of some kind, cause I haven't since come even close to 10,000
Subject: Re: Rotamania
Written By: Philip Eno on 06/07/07 at 1:16 am
I still wanna know how I broke 20,000. It has to be a glitch of some kind, cause I haven't since come even close to 10,000
I scored 50,000 on one move, I think I know what I did, then tried the same move again and it did not work the second time.