Update on Game Comments - Part 1

Since I got really bored having to wait for my pet to keep increasing gym stats, I decided to post a blog on some game tips along the way. Since I might repeat certain games compared to before when I first came here, I decided to just make another series of articles on it.

Triple Pyramid Solitaire Tips

1. When you can add cards from both ascending and descending directions, count the number of cards that you can add into the deck that is in order. For example, you might have card number 6 with cards number 5 and 7. On card 7, it ends there, but with card 5, it turns out you can move down at card 4, 3, and 2 also.

2. Notice if you can repeat cards. Such as, you have card 7 and card 6. Then after you add the 6, you can go back to another 7, to repeat the cycle, instead of moving forward to getting card 8 already.

3. Try to get the most bottom cards met first. This will help reveal the cards behind to have more options for your next move.

Pyramid Solitaire Tips

1. Memorize the card combinations that add up to 13. . . these are :
King card, which can be clicked on by itself. The Queen and Ace card. The Jack card and the 2 card. The 10 card and the 3 card. The 9 card and the 4 card. The 8 card and the 5 card. The 7 card and the 6 card.

2. Notice if the card behind certain cards are helpful to add a pair to 13 if you have more than one choice of card to clear. For example, you might have two jack cards, and you have a two. It turns out behind one of the jack cards, is an ace card for the queen card, so pick that one.

3. On the deck cards at the bottom, there will be a left and right set of cards on which you can choose from. The right was your previous choice, and sometimes when the current choice was cleared, it will make room for the previous choice to be used. For example, you cleared up a 10 card with a 3 card. Behind that is a 4 card for the 9 card, which was your previous choice card.

Gold Mine Tips

1. Sometimes you will have to temporarily push the cart back to clear the game. It's okay. Do so anyway.

2. Sometimes when moving the blocks, you will have to temporarily make it harder for the cart to move in the process by adding more obstacles to it. Realize this usually takes several steps in later levels, and you will have to temporarily move stuff around to make it clear up.

3. Notice the size of the blocks, whether it has a length of 2 to 3 blocks, which will be helpful with your set up.

4. Personally, I like to start analyzing the block that is blocking the exit, and then going backwards to see which block is blocking that, and then the block which is blocking even that one, and so on.

5. Sometimes randomly experimenting and just moving blocks at ways you don't usually do can help give you some ideas. If stuck, you have a restart button for the level anyway.

Evil Clown Tips

1. Take account of how the ball can bounce off the wall to get to certain places. It will do you wonders.
2. Experiment with completely random directions to shoot than you would normally try if you are stuck. You might get some ideas on what to do. Besides, you can just restart the level.
3. Observe the ball as it shoots and see if you need an entirely different direction, or you just need to tweak the angle of the ball a little.
4. Be willing to shoot at narrow edges with objects even if you risk the ball bouncing back to you with these obstacles. Do so anyway.
5. I personally find the music particularly distracting when it comes to working out a puzzle game like this, so maybe turn it off in the settings, as you can do with other games to concentrate better, if that works for you.

Space Rocks Tips

1. Try to make it perfectly flat, yes, but sometimes when you have no other option, you have to make an imperfect block tower or else you will just risk making a tall column of piled blocks that will reach the top. Learn to not be such a perfectionist sometimes, while trying to reduce mistakes as much as possible.

2. Try to visualize ways to clear up a row without using the straight vertical block. You'd find that offers you a lot more options.

3. Be patient, and make use of the short time analyzing the bottom blocks rather than impulsively dropping the blocks as fast as possible. Patience will serve you well.

Mineral Match Tips

1. Sometimes you will have to connect gems from across the other side of the board. Do not assume that all the connections made will be near each other, so it can provide space for the rest of the jewels to be matched.

2. As always with puzzles, experiment with entirely different directions and use the restart button when needed. Do not get so insistent that certain gems will obviously have to connect this way, and for your mind to narrow on a certain conclusion. Be open to other solutions, and don't just keep repeating the old ones. If an old solution doesn't work, stop repeating it.

3. It helps to take the time to memorize the positions of the gems across the board at first, rather than impulsively trying to connect everything immediately. As it is with puzzles, patience is key, rather than trying to turn this into a guessing game. Maybe that will work in earlier levels, but as you keep going, guessing becomes less effective.

Reunite Tips

1. Note that you can still draw lines after the first lines are made, even if the xois have moved their original positions already. Often this is used as an extra push for the xoi to move.

2. With moving obstacles, try to cross them, not when they get out of the way, but when they are in the way. That is because it will likely move out of the way by the time the xoi gets to cross, and if you hit it when it is out of the way, by the time the xoi moves, it tends to be in the way. Do the opposite of what you consider the right timing, I mean.

3. Take note of the physical environment around the xoi rather than just focusing on the two xoi or what is nearest to them. Why do you think the environment was designed that way?

4. Try to experiment with looking and observing the environment in different focuses than you would usually do. If you always look on the left, look at the right. If you always look at the bottom, look at the top, and so on.

Word Search

1. Note that certain words you have to find contain letters from previous answers, meaning that two answer words may cross each other.

2. Notice that some words may be backwards. Whether vertically, horizontally or diagonally. You might practice for example, by reading a book upside down, or trying to decipher words in a mirror.

3. I tend to try to look for the first letter of a word, and that often helps. Then I make sure to check all the letters surrounding that first letter in a box.

4. When it is a less common letter, like x, y or z, even if it is not the first letter of the word, finding these ones seem to make it easier to find the answer word.