thread of drop 7, also a poll

i hate 1s (ones)

4

slocki didn't make this???

5s and 6s are the worst imo

yea i think 5s fuk me most often actually

I like 5s

there is basically never a time when a 6 can't, at the least, be made to disappear. fives can definitely fuck you, though, for sure. the worst is dropping a five and then realizing, with many moves to spare (maybe even a level-up to come), that it will almost certainly never be made to disappear. like you can beaver away at some other part of the board but yr fate is sealed.

are we voting for best or worst

i maintain 4s are the most pernish

i find dangerous 5s just crop up less often

best has gotta be 7. who was ever sad to see a 7?

also sorta depends on whether we're talking about numbers that pop up in circles, or ones we are charged with dropping

cuz 7s that pop out of circles can be drags

spose they can cause undesirable canyons. but canyons > impenetrable walls.

are we voting for best or worst

i maintain 4s are the most pernish

― cathy: ACK-er (s1ocki), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 7:51 PM (6 minutes ago) Bookmark

embrace the ambiguity

i will

they can be a fine tool, especially in the earlyd ays of a game

letting a 3 creep up too far along the side can fuck your shit up pronto

but yeah there is really only one answer here

i'd like a discussion to develop about "the opening" in hardcore, i.e. before the first row of gray discs has appeared. i've started taking a lot more time with this, with the idea that a perfect opening can set up a perfect game. however, like most drop7 "rules" i fear this is fantasy

ya the opening is definitely a thing. i find i try to delay blowing up any numbers until at least the first row. im also obsessed with getting rid of 6s at that stage.

yeah I try not to get rid of anything until the first row appears for maximum grey disc poppage

let's be clear I meant to say breakage

secret 2: build chains. easiest at the beginning, i try to get a column of 7s on one side, bunch of 6s across the bottom with a gap, then fill in the gap when the first grey disks appear. if you're lucky you can get >20,000 in one go, clear that row of disks, rinse and repeat.

this is my ruy lopez. if i start a game and i can't set this up, i quit and go again.

(although i will settle for just one 6, and a 2 will do in the side column, 3 at a push.)

i get really irritated when the opening gives me low numbers sitting above high numbers - i just know they're going to explode uselessly once they get moved up

oh totes

one of the most annoying things is a 2 that appears on level 3

one of the most satisfying thing is drilling underneath it and revealing a 3 for a mini-chian

6s can really fuck up the 'building horizontally' thing. 6 at both sides... grr.

ya

croosh to clear at least one column on the far left or right in order to deal with 6s

xposts yeah - i am ALL ABOUT when a 5, say, is sitting in vertical position 4, above three complete gray discs. and i get a 4. drop that 4 on it, 5 does half the work, 4 does the other half.

ya dropping a lower number onto a number one higher is mad satisfying

another one of life's little pleasures: 1s that appear on the bottom row and instantly wink out of existence

you get five drops per level-up, right. each level = 14 breakages to clear. so you need on average nearly three breakages per drop to stay alive!

that's fucked - only 7s can give you 3 breakages at once! but then you add chains into the mix and you start to have a chance i guess

satisfying gambit:

a 5 sits on two discs. you drop a 3. you drop a 1. profit!

obv this can be expressed in many permutations, it's just so satisfying to complete a stack with a free-standing 1 that disappears and lets you chaaiiiiiiiiiinnnnn

wait waht, any number can break three discs at once?

you guys know about the 70,000 point bonus, yeah? it's if you completely clear the board. i've only gotten it twice (and wasn't fast enough to screen shot it). here it is http://gilesbowkett.blogspot.com/2010/06/how-to-win-at-drop7.html

^^^did not know about it, but assumed it existed (i've come very close to an empty board many, many times)

haha gbx of course you're right (except 1s)

xp ha was just gonna ask if anyone had done that! super secret bonus was always my hope, now it is confirmed.

oh, yr right about the 1, good catch

the satisfaction of dropping a seven down into a little alcove and busting three at once is just too much for my little brain to bear

oh man i always wondered about clearing the board!

I've been trying to use the new row of discs to my advantage but it's hard (i.e. having a bunch of 4's at level 3 during a level-up) because you need to initiate a chain beforehand in order to get maximum points

think I cleared the borad once in my early early days of playing (and may have been on normal, not hardcore)

the satisfaction of dropping a seven down into a little alcove and busting three at once is just too much for my little brain to bear

― progressive cuts (Tracer Hand), Wednesday, October 6, 2010 8:26 AM (42 seconds ago) Bookmark

ya although i find it a more sophisticated pleasure when it's like a 2 or 3 or 4, because they only work in that one specific row, whereas a 7 can deliver that anywhere

lol at that blog using photos of his screen... does he not know he can screencap?

clearing the board can happen easiest imo in the first round. everything has to go right of course. now i never try though, because i like to get everything lined up so that the first bump blows a bunch of discs up

how do u shot screencap

home and sleep

*click*

go home and sleep, dude, you're tired

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0014.png

love u drop 7 never change

wau @ rare & secrete bonus! i always wondered abt that too

see if i was playing that dayo i would still hold out hope for that far-right column

http://i975.photobucket.com/albums/ae232/daggerlee/IMG_0013.png

love it can't get enough

RIP

my strategy of late is to keep the edges of the board as clear as possible so the worst is when 5s and 6s show up there.

fuck all youse guys

Had that board-clear bonus twice. I long for it again. Feel like if I had a super-logic brain I could see a pattern for dropping numbers on a bottom row that would give me maximum chance at it.

I can only wish for that board-clear bonus. Every time I get close to it, with only a few numbers left, they're always gray disks that happened to be high numbers.
Also, I can only dream of this : clear the board, get a 1 afterwards and you're up 140k points! Always a good way to start your game.

ya although i find it a more sophisticated pleasure when it's like a 2 or 3 or 4, because they only work in that one specific row, whereas a 7 can deliver that anywhere

yes yes

just pulled off a 12x chain! not sure how I feel about going for combos. even at 12x each disc was only giving me like 2-3000 points. a level up is 17000. feel like if you want a high score in hardcore you just gotta go for pure survival, chains be fucked. can be a good way to start off a game though if you get a right distribution of discs

every point counts

and chains just mean more numbers destroyed, so it's all good

big news

got my first clear the board bonus

then proceeded to have a really terrible game

never gotten a board clear ;_;

ever since I started learning to think & build horizontally I've been big timing my games

raised my average by 5k in just a few days

psyched, considering wiping the board and starting clean just to have a more realistic average score reflected

haha i thought of that too

i feel its disrespectful to your younger self tho

I suck so hard at this game.

wonder what my iphone's drop7scores.xls looks like

so are we gonna start swapping hi scores here?

mines 549041, tho have only broke 500k 3x

565034 and i also only have three in the 500k's

i thought we were voting on which ones to click on !

http://grab.by/grabs/e7d07b1ad9067d610499c38db541127f.png

woah

speaking of whoa

http://i54.tinypic.com/2aqcyd.png

just scored 493

1.29 million what in the fuck

541

this game is driving me insane. like these past few days, every time i go to bed i can't sleep because as soon as i close my eyes, all i can see is a game of drop7 going on. this is the first time in a loooong time that a game has gotten under my skin this much but shit, it really is that good. feel kind of sad as well as relieved that there is no stat about how much time you've spent playing the game, like there is in orbital for eg, because i'd be curious to see how much time i've spent on it.

im starting to resent games that don't keep an average score, it's so much more interesting to me than high score

jibe I have the same problem. except once I see flashes of drop 7 moves I have to debunk them "no that wouldnt happen because if a 4 drops down to the next row and then goes away it would have done that already blah blah crazy bullshit.."

its rough

haha
also, same as you slocki, i really hate those games that drop my average. that may also be a consequence of me having a hard time racking up huge scores (only one in the 500k range, 4 or 5 in the 400k range) yet consistently getting 280-300k scores. so i'm consistently average, never brilliant. that reads like some of my report cards :D
mayor jingleberries, glad to know i'm not the only one!

oh ya my average is not great at all... like 236 or something... growing pains

Ive brought my avg up to 210k but all those games spent screwing around kind of make it hard to move it higher. And also makes me not feel bad about ragequitting games where I got pwned by 1s and 2s at the top.

median score would be a much more useful/informative statistic

why

GOOGLE IT

I KNOW WHAT IT IS BUT WHY BETTER

just started playing drop 7 on the ipad...wish they would update the graphix, it's NAGL

i want it to be photorealistic

yeah drop7 for ipad pretty much sucks.

got 613243

daaaaaaamn

i feel like i've moved up a notch even though my scores aren't reflecting it. i can't remember the last time i was bothered by a 4, for instance.

think 3's are moving to the top of my most hated list

been getting this thing where I'll have a 3 on a spire on the leftmost or rightmost side of the board and I can't build up high enough to get it

fuck 3's

i feel like this game gets harder (on hardcore) the more you play it. i get much higher scores on my ipad now than i do on my iphone.

broke 500 :-D

This game can fuck right off.

Cold turkey time again maybe.

broke 500, deleted the app

think 3's are moving to the top of my most hated list

been getting this thing where I'll have a 3 on a spire on the leftmost or rightmost side of the board and I can't build up high enough to get it

you gotta avoid those at all costs!

3 on a spire is usually dealable

4 or 5 on a spire (above their respective stations) is a nightmare

worst feeling tho is a 3 on a spire and you're like "ok, i got this" and then every disk they gave you is exactly not what you want.

anybody else getting crashes, right before the GAME OVER popup? iphone 3gs, ios 4.newest

yeah that happens to me

all the time

I get that too

but it's usually when I get a score below my avg

think it's the games way of telling me to kip

562k,personal best

anybody ever get the 'drop 7 yips'

like when you misplace a disc at a crucial moment because youre so nervous your finger slips

hate that

the worst

Just discovered this. Man! Dangerous if I have anything that needs to get done, like, ever.

Been getting the cleared board bonus semi-regularly. Still can't seem to do better than 250k. Impressed by you guys

my avg is up to 208, from 185 just a few weeks ago

reg or hardcore baaders

anyone ever clear the board on hardcore? i'm wondering if it is possible and if so, does it give you more points. i've come very close many times but it always gives me the disc that will block me.

yes and it does

how does it give u a disc on hardcore?

got 638601

How I know that this game is ruining my life, a vvv short story :
This night I had a dream in which I was a terrorist trying to blow up a skyscraper. I looked up and realised that the building was actually a drop7 spire with a 4 at its top, leading me to furiously drop 3s and 4s in the hopes of destroying it at the base.
The end.

lol

got my first hardcore board clear the other day; the game responded by completely walling me off w/1s and 2s within 6 levels

I think nowadays the major roadblock to getting a high score is the game walling me off with 1's and 2's

just got 741601

wow mazels

suck @ this game

in this screen, what's the best play
http://219.94.198.184/file/9f53300516e5568437fb9857bb08d0cc.jpg

u shd play hardcore

btwn the 4/7

Ya only noobs play the reg

Automatic thread bump. This poll is closing tomorrow.

Clearly there is a strategy to getting past the big runs of 1's and 2's that I'm not getting.

still don't get this game :/

Fukcing 1s and 2s. So tired of getting a top line of only those so no way to continue playing

ive really starting thinking abt this like uh poker or some probability shit

I am terrible at this game (so far...)

jc, you mean setting your board up in a way that will reward fortuitous drops, 'taking risks'

i mean more there being a "right" %age play 2 make on every drop

but yeah also risk/reward math too

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

77 entering the collective ILX conscious

I scored 690,000 earlier in the week. Luck definitely had a hand in it but I was in a serious groove.

698 000 yesterday! And a week ago I finally got a clear the board bonus. And this game is completely ruling my life, like I keep thinking about numbrs lining up and stuff.

Just started playing this.

Went to Thunderbird and noticed my new emails were about to stack to the top, so I immediately grouped by sender and filed.

still play this a few times a day at least, god help me

my avg score is 245,204 & i dont ever duck out on games that go badly

also there was recently some mag piece where the dude talked abt how addictive this was and from the way he described it, he wasnt even playing on on hardcore

still one of the best polls on ILX. still don't know why 4 gets such a bad rap tho when 1 is clearly the brutalest

obv 1's being hatched is nagl anywhere xcept the bottom row or as unboardered entities but having them drop is rarely a problem so..

i havent played this game in like 6 months but i LOVED re-reading this thread. i think it may contain some of my finest writing, on ilx or professionally.

it also led me to re-download it. kinda sad it's a ZYNGA game tho now

i never quite understood how to get past the most basic level of play (read: i sucked), which is probably why i never got addicted

it also led me to re-download it. kinda sad it's a ZYNGA game tho now

― A Little Princess btw (s1ocki), Wednesday, April 11, 2012 4:38 PM (6 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this was super lame

this game is probably the only game on my phone that i still play often. it still infuriates me as often as when i started playing. i introduced my cousin to this game and she has become so good at it, her high score is in the 1 million range.

also does drop7 being a zynga game change anything ? i mean, good for the guy for making some money from this terrific game.

it's good for him, but I will never give Zynga a dime.

oh god its back in my life

is there drop7 rehab?

My wwf co-worker sits behind me and asks, do I need to nudge you for a new word?

hello im johnny crunch and im powerless w/r/t drop7

i just got 877k on this

Normal or hardcore?

I'm not sure why normal is supposedly the easiest one. It's more challenging to me because you've got the numbers AND the unknown gray ones to break open.

877 is sick for either. nice job.

hardcore

normal just takes too long. i do play it occasionally & strategy is def a bit tweaky and i guess 'harder' but its just not a better game in that mode, i could pen a dissertation on this i think

My highest hardcore is 565k. I've got a long ways to go.

highest hardcore is 856k. but i told a friend about this game and very quickly she bested me and broke the 1 million mark.
tbh i kinda wonder about this game. are the numbers in gray blocks completely random? or is it possible to score insanely hgh on every game you play if you make all the right dcisions?

It's taken me awhile to think of it as a chess game, thinking ahead a few extra moves before making the present one.

Primarily because you don't know what pieces you're going to have in those upcoming moves.

i know this game so well. it's like an old, intimate enemy.

it's my boyd crowder.

otm about it being an old enemy. i'm kind of saddened by the leaderboards though, where the highest score is in the billion range for hardcore, which def feels like someone cheated.

someone got lucky.

can't seem to crack 300k on this

help

keep playing

hardcore?

original & best iphone addiction

ya

I play eighty eight now like a turncoat. they have random exploding blocks to help clear out some of the log jam when the luck of the draw keeps kicking you in the balls

hardcore?
― socki (s1ocki), Monday, December 9, 2013 5:23 PM

si

normal mode too

broke a mil, should prob never play ever again

http://i.imgur.com/bMk0eSc.png

whoooaaa

damn congrats! still can't go higher than 850k.
also the other day i got three clear the board bonuses in a row (cleared the board then got a 1 then another 1) and then got horrible luck and barely managed to get to 450k points, such a disappointment

jesus christ

damn

http://imgur.com/INBAMFW

finally got to a million too, came to upload the exact same screenshot as johnny crunch :)

so of course i screw up the screen shot
http://i.imgur.com/INBAMFW.jpg?1

goodjob jibe!

http://i.imgur.com/HUWgzVQ.jpg

Played it for the first time on an iPad mini, and holy cow, it was in my face.

No ads or anything, but it opening up Facebook without warning surprised me.

Sometimes I get to where there's a row of 1's at the top and no way to topple them, my second-to-last ball comes up as a 2, and I'm like the Greek from "The Wire", waiting under the bridge for someone, putting away the phone and saying, "It isn't going to work out."

I'll also make a dumb mistake, like throwing a 1 away on a tall stack instead of busting a block on the far left, and I hear Norman Chad and Lon McEachern in my head going, "Oh, that was a bad play. He's walking right into it."

Downloaded it on my shitty Android phone and saw the new version for the first time. It even had the dumb "rack 'em!" sound effects at the beginning. What a way to spoil a classic game.

been meaning to read up on the strategy of this game. i play compulsively on the train but keep an average around 100k, sometimes i can get up to around 300k if i clear the board early.

normally i just try and nuke all 1s and 2s while keeping as many 5s, 6s, and 7s on the board, but i assume this is not actually the way to maximize ones score

My first strategy is go a row of sixes and then pile some 7s at the end, so you'll get all those sixes to explode on the third or fourth step of a chain.

My strategy after that is to panic and start busting up anything I can find.

I feel like the success or dareisay genius of this game is that it resists any? most? like absolute strategies imo

like I guess I have a loose strat of trying to eliminate any 6s asap but there are def exceptions to that so ¯\(°_0)/¯

SO much gambling... "If I get a 2 and bust that one, and it's a 1, then I can move that 4 down..." = basically risking it all on filling an inside straight.

while keeping as many 5s, 6s, and 7s on the board

― J0rdan S., Monday, April 11, 2016 11:28 AM (2 hours ago) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah uh I would say don't do this lol

~ On Top of Old Smoke-EEEEY..... ~

http://i.imgur.com/EgP0p8n.png?1

It ain't a million, but as you can see from my average, I'm very proud of this accomplishment anyway.

https://i.imgur.com/jfUo4S9.jpg

Damn you, don't start me playing this again! I'd forgotten about it, re-reading the thread is baffling.

Also, congrats.

Feel like I'm 18 months on, 9 months off with this game.

wtf is blitz mode

did they cancel the word hardcore

I didn't even notice, but yeah they did.

It's Classic, Blitz and Sequence now. I will never understand people who play Sequence.