Best Of

Wow, that's crazy high! Highest one I've seen so far.

Congratulations on getting through against such a tough opponent!!

Huge congratulations to everyone who made it - flowers, cats, dogs and humans!

I’m out now, phew. I was quite conflicted as I had a nice lead having used up my tokens but with no interest in moving on at the expense of someone who had spent much more time and energy than I did.

I didn’t play at all after last night and just let it play out:

Mimi hadn’t moved with 3 hours to go but obviously had a token or two up her sleeve:

Well played Mimi, I’m pleased at how it worked out.

Good luck everyone, I’ll be rooting for you all!

@christinewupp Thank you for the insight, especially your use of the word hex.

For the entirety of Sunday I saw two players using hexes to bring their score from the 30k to the 60k range within one hour. I spent six bloody hours to cover the 30k deficit, making 45k to my progress. Eventually, the former leading player woke up, and decided to hex me off, not knowing that I did not hex my way to 67k. My decision to hex back in the last hour was an unfortunate decision, because the hexor, should he overtake me, will hex again to ensure I cannot overtake him (he already used at least three hexes)

I have consolidated my posts into a single post of links.

Here is my personal experience with four accounts. I am relieved to have confirmed that my strategies and also my advice I have given here have proven to work. This all comes too late, of course, as we cannot know if the next round will be similar.

But what I have learned mostly is this:

The hexers will get hexed.

Whether this is because the app is interfering or because of the real behaviour of real people I don't discuss here, but I am sure the actual pattern is real: If we play a multiplier token we will get hit by players also using multiplier tokens. If we play a multiplier token early in the round, during the first two levels we play, then the leaderboard will be higher scoring and generally tougher.

To try to win without tokens play slowly and watch

Anyone apparently using a token in the previous rounds would only use one token. I think the app made sure of that. They then stopped and allowed us to catch up by playing lots of levels normally. Those who continue to crush steadily without tokens were able to catch up with the leaders.

Here is a player who did that:

Bruna had played a multiplier at the start. This leaderboard was a very early starter. To only be at the 40,000 mark after three days is very slow indeed. The Cosmos flower is within reach of the leaders and nobody is threatening to run away with it.

This player used the same strategy but joined two days later (Saturday). Allium played normally and steadily:

There is also very little activity on this board. Players were shown as "playing" but when checking their scores and player cards there was zero progress. This shows how little my opponents reacted to my slow and steady progress:

It may be that none of these competitors had any tokens left. It might be other reasons. But my advice to get one token's length into the lead and then observe proved to be the right strategy here. I just sat and watched:

It seemed risky, but it paid off for Allium.

Now to see what happened to the hexers in my next post.

Well, I've made it to the next round

BUT: I had NO idea that the x10 tokens were only available once. For some reason, I thought we'd get new tokens each round 😔

I'm not confident about being able to make it to first in Round 2 but I'll give it my best 🤷‍♀️

Congrats to everyone who qualified and a very sincere "Good Game" to the 2nd place finisher: he was a great competitor 🫶

Best of luck to you all in the next round 🤗

G'day y'all!

Thank you so much for engaging with my posts, even though there are some irregularities. I have made a table cataloging the progress reports of each day of each stage of the contest.

Hope that will make navigation easier.