Flood It Game! The object of the game is to flood the whole board with one color in less than 25 steps. You start from the top left corner and progress by selecting one of the colored balls on the left. When you change your current area color, every adjacent square with the same color also changes, that way you can flood other areas on the board
Saturday, September 1, 2007
Flood It!
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I love this game! It is much harder than it looks, however. With my background (math background, computer professional, lover of Sudoku & Kakuro, etc.) I thought I'd master it quickly, but I was overly optimistic. For quite a long time I was stuck at around 25% success rate; now I've crept up to almost 33%! Well, in baseball that's pretty good! (If you don't delete your cookies, iGoogle keeps your life-to-date score.) I wish the scoring were other than pass/fail; when I lose a game it is very frequently by one move, sometimes two... sometimes only one itty-bitty square! With pass/fail (win/lose) scoring only, you can't keep track of whether you lost by one move or by 10. Also, you can't keep track of whether you won in 25 moves or by, say, 21. Also, there is no grading of the difficulty of the puzzle itself. Some are definitely easier than others. When you get one that's all checkerboardy, you're pretty sure that you're doomed. When you see a puzzle with lots of Floridas and Utahs and (as opposed to map of mostly Rhode Islands), you're more optimistic. Sorry for the U.S. references for you non-Americans out there. I also wish each board had a unique number, so if you wanted to try the same one again you could request it. I suspect that the boards are generated dynamically and randomly, but don't know this for a fact. Does anyone know? Also, does anyone know the odds of winning, say, the smallest board in the allowable number of moves? Are some boards impossible to win? I'd love to discuss this with others.
i had to find someone to talk about this. i have played for about a year on my laptop and have just done something i had to tell. i just finished my 2190th game. i have played all of the sizes but have stuck to playing the small puzzle for the last eight months. so these are my stats on the small board:
Best Game: 17 (17&18 i score often)
Score: 5000 points
Games Played: 2238
Games Finished: 2190
Games Won: 1565
Games Lost: 625
Winning Percentage: 70% (or if my math is right, which could also not be the case, is 72%
i will keep checking this blog & continue to post if others are interested.
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