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Rest In Peace, Gaby. Though I barely knew you, you had a wonderfully addicting game. None like it in all my 5 years on Kongregate. May the trolls get their comeuppance.
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Playing against Realist, about to get my 10th win in a row, had a really lucky game. I was on 12050, he was on 5050. He got 6 ones, a 1-2-3-4-5-6, a nothing, a 3 pairs, and 4 ones to score 13500 on the final turn. FFFFFFFUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUUU
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The only thing that seemed missing from 'Zilch' was little scratch-paper comments when the score is tied. We get them for virtually everything else, and they really contribute to the mellow tone of the game. Every time the score was tied, I expected a little note to pop up saying "All tied up!" or "[player formerly in the lead] has met their match!" or some similar nugget of wit...
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Finishing a game with negative points affects your easy badge progress. well its what I get for trying to get the normal badge first lol
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Actually, after clicking a link at the end of the game that told me I wasn't playing the most recent version, it seems maybe the Kongregate version above isn't the latest? Now I'm just confused as to what the heck is going on.
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fun game, but hot damn, talk about random. medium got a load of free rolls in my fourth game, made 6K+ in one turn. ruined my streak and i rage quit. lame, bro.
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Getting a tip saying "you lost 500 points for getting 3 zilches in a row- next time just bank 300 points" is pretty annoying when getting 100 points a turn...
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In playing enough to be close to the 500 games completed mark, I have been able to observe the computer a lot. I believe that it was programmed with better than average RNG. However, I believe this was designed in order to make up for the fact that the player should be better at strategy. This is most noticeable in Reckless. While Reckless may have long streaks of Zliches, it is rarely because of bad luck, as it will have had opportunities to bank, but not taken them.
This makes sense, in terms of balance, but it sure did make accomplishing some of the achievements very difficult/annoying (and impossible without a lot of quitting in the middle of games).
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There's a glitch in this game where the CPU stops playing during his turn, to fix it Click MENU -> QUIT GAME -> PLAY ON and continue the match normally, otherwise you'd have to quit and lose awards.
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You know, the last few times I checked my progress under "Fool's Gold Badge," it said my current progress was 82, then 80, now 79. When I count them myself, the game says I've won 97/120. Ouch. Those of you playing right now might want to take note!
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One of the most frustrating things about this game is getting your first zilch over halfway through because you kept getting single 5s.
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Playing a reckless computer, he got 7,350 points in one turn. Three pairs, three pairs, three pairs, three pairs... I couldn't help but feel he was cheating.
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Is it me or does the computer just get really lucky. I was at 10900 and the computer only had 7800 when the final round started. He won.
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I lost 5 times in a row. I had reached 11300 points, the computer only has 7000, and out of nowhere it pulls 4 thousand points out of who knows where. Fun game, I just feel cheated.
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Game itself is good, but Reckless's ability to get free rolls so often (moreso when you have advantage) means it is no fun playing, as Reckless will win anyway
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...That feeling when I'm up by over 6000 points and the AI pulls out a 3pair 3pair 123456 combo and gets over 5000 points.
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As a computer I'm fed up of cheating humans. I'll be 5000 points in front and then humans are all like "lol quit game that was just a test lets play again" and I'm all like :( so I play again and again until they find a perfect win for them that wasn't a test. Please stop the human's ability to cheat. K thnx.
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I believe the creator that the game isn't rigged. However, I disagree with his claim that it is more than a very tiny bit skill-based. "Skill" in this game comes from a series of simple probability math; the optimal strategy is not that difficult to calculate. However, even using such a strategy against the "easy" CPU, the winner is still far more likely to be the player who rolls more 1000+-scoring turns, which has virtually nothing to do with skill. This is made worse by the "awards", which largely seem to be about having absurd lucky streaks. On that note, luck-based games should NEVER have Hard badges IMO. 2/5
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My game is not saving. I have checked and it's not a problem on other games on Kongregate. Anybody got a solution to this or also have this problem? Rate up if you also have this problem.