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I guess the reason why the developers never update game to have save is cause they abandoned this one and created a sequel. Kinda sad they couldn't at least have updated this one with a checkpoint feature.
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Argh! Was just on level 24, my best effort, thought I had finished it but made a stupid error so lost. Still had 2 jokers and various other tiles as well, was by far my best position!
Do really like the game (looking at the easy badge date it's over 3 years since I first played it, wow!) but it can be very frustrating!
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Complete waste of time.All the work you go through,lose 1 level and it's all gone.
this game's not even worth the achievement
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@toxicslime Damn me too, Sep. 02, 2008 was when I got the first badge. I hadn't played in years and then today it only took me three tries to get the hard one. Harmonic sets are the key. That any getting 4x4 colours or signs. I guess I got lucky and got a bunch of them in the early stages.
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Even with near a dozen various powerups, I still can't finish this. It doesn't help when a single map eats all my specials and doesn't give me the ONE tile I need >:(
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I got the first badge August 6th 2008. The second badge today. It's fun but seriously how do they expect people to complete this? It vastly seems random and there being no save point kinda ruins it after losing billions of times in a row ._.
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This is incredibly fun but impossibly difficult at times. I kept losing because the random number generator wouldn't give me a piece required to solve a puzzle - on relaxed mode.
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For the first 10 rings, try to get a quad color harmony on every one. If you have 4 of each color in any given ring, you get 9 tiles and a joker. If you have 4 of each color and at least 3 of each shape, you get a bomb and 3 tiles too. Try to have 8 jokers by the time you get to the blue rings. Once I'm at the blue rings, you should try to get the quad sets, but it's ok if you can't quite pull it off. If you are one tile away from a quad bonus, and you need two specific colors, and you HAVE those colors but just can't make the tile fit, make it a joker, you'll still get the reward. Once you get to the red rings, your goal is simply survival. Now is when you want to use the bombs and jokers you saved up in the first 15 or so levels. You will be extremely limited here so don't waste any power-ups as you won't really be getting any more except color or symbol changes. If you have 8 or 9 jokers left you should have enough power-up cheese to get through the final few rings.
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Is there a way, or a manual somewhere, to know which bonus tool like remove tile, you will get after finishing a level. The rewards seems to appear very randomly for me.
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This is one of my favourite games here. I do wish it would go straight from one level to another though (as it does after level 30) instead of the utterly pointless extra-screen click through.
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So, I was struggling immensely until randomly on the first level this happened, and I got all this stuff for it... I was just happy to connect a bunch of moons together. http://i.imgur.com/xp2ZOw3.png
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really, i love the puzzle, was having tons of fun. but then i failed one level and had to start from the beginning, so i'm rage quitting. srsly man... otherwise great game...
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With the right mentality and strategic use of power ups, the hard badge becomes possible. I got the hard badge the same run I got the easy badge. It's a good choice to use a power up to finish a level instead of shuffling, and I found that I got new power ups when I was low for no apparent reason.
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Made to level 41 on the first run.
I tought: easy! Then I looked at the comments... NO SAVE?
I must be a lucky man. O.o
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Hey everyone - I happened to play this gem again after a long time and wrote a walkthrough: http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3-general-gaming/topics/450491-ring-pass-not-walkthrough
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Yes! I won! Got to level 33!!! This time I focused on getting power-ups and used them strategically and sparingly. Awesome game! Ex- (Says after winning that I am now a MASTER DRAGON SLAYER RING SPECIALIST SORCERER DELUX!!!
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I love the music, dragon, and concept. However, I hate the fact there is not a save option especially since much of the game is based more upon luck with the tiles dealt than actual skill or logic. Getting several levels into the game only to start over and hope I got the tiles needed was frustrating, at best and ruined an otherwise enjoyable game.
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To clear level30,you should read "Ring Pass Not -- Earning Powerups"Kong's Forum and read Dedendre's post.
His post is very useful.
http://www.kongregate.com/forums/3-general-gaming/topics/742-ring-pass-not-earning-powerups
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It took ages and ages of play to even get close to getting it. When you finally do, it's... somehow not that great. Like, winning a game is supposed to make you feel like you completed something. I feel like I escaped a crazed haunted house where I was thrown back to the basement with each wrong door.
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I thought this was going to be a solid 4 stars. The I realized that you lose all progress on the first freakin' loss. Nope. 2/5
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With fully random puzzles all levels should be repetative. I trid to do achivement many times and if you go to any lvl is in fact nearly 100% random.
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No back button to undo moves, and you're reset to the very beginning if you miss a puzzle? This should be an Impossible badge.
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"You are now a "Master dragon slayer Ring specialist Sorcerer delux!!!" and dragons all over the known universe are no longer a threat to you! Dragon victims and their families salute you!" Well, that was kind of anticlimactic.
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Ah... Aah... AAAAHHHH!!! HOLY SNOOD I DID IT!!!
Oh my god, my game froze on level 26 with about 8 joker tiles, and I was seriously ready to give up forever. Thankfully it started working again and I managed to make it through.
Almost 5 years between the easy badge and the hard badge, but I finally did it.
My strategy was to aim for quadruples, primarily colors, in the first 10 levels. What that means is that you have 4 of each color. If that wasn't working out, I would try to get quadruples for symbols, which should be self-explanatory. Accomplishing that nets you some bonus tiles and a joker, which makes a tile fit anywhere.
I actually ended up with 9 spares, heh. So yes, very luck-based, but if you can manage to grab some jokers near the beginning, you can at least expand your margin for error.