Tic Tac Toe Rings

[FellippeHeitor]

Max I've ever gotten to:

What strategies have you guys been using?

[bplus]

Dang for some reason my post at Syntax Bomb with zip containing .exe wont take? No explanations... They took a JB post I made about a week ago.

What strategies have you guys been using?

Have you tried it without the music? ;-))

Strategies:
+ Keep the center square open for final matches when possible.
+ Have idea which way to go for each color but have a plan B as  those double rings will force different ideas.
++   so I double up on colors Red and dark shade of Blue, one line, Light Blue and Green or Yellow another...
++   fill already filled rings leaving open spaces as much as possible for final matches.
+ Group matches to take advantage of multipliers so if start a new round of rings without match before, save matches for last to possibly continue into next round with multipliers.
+ Double cross matches are beautiful! Going 2 ways with one ring!

[FellippeHeitor]

Nice, thanks for sharing :-)

I'm adding two more ring colors. I suspect I'll make your life a tad harder.

[gaslouk]

We're waiting with anticipation fellippe.
Good morning from Greece.

[FellippeHeitor]

Hi Gaslouk. Latest version is already available to download from https://github.com/FellippeHeitor/TicTacToeRing/archive/master.zip

[gaslouk]

Hi Fellippe, for the start is this.

[FellippeHeitor]

I may have made it too hard then... Glad to see your old stats got properly saved, I made sure I could restore the backup for you folks before saving in the new .dat format.

[bplus]

What are the new colors? I am already having trouble with 2 blue shades and sometimes red and green  or orange and yellow, oh yeah white and pink too.

Maybe a level 2 stage? The higher the level the more the colors.

[FellippeHeitor]

The internal "level" variable goes up with every set of rings placed on the board. The two new colors are white and gray. Colors are added until around level 60, and from then on they just keep cycling between the ten colors:

Code: QB64: [Select]

1. SUB setRingColors
2.     SHARED i AS INTEGER
3.     SHARED c() AS _UNSIGNED LONG
4.  
5.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(0, 78, 249) 'blue
6.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(0, 100, 0) 'green
7.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(222, 61, 44) 'red
8.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(216, 216, 44) 'yellow
9.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(233, 139, 17) 'orange
10.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(222, 105, 161) 'pink
11.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(139, 11, 205) 'purple
12.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(55, 211, 211) 'cyan
13.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(255, 255, 255) 'white
14.     i = i + 1: c(i) = _RGB32(100, 100, 100) 'dark gray
15. END SUB

[gaslouk]

Unbelievable? !!!

[FellippeHeitor]

Well, you tell me!

[gaslouk]

Ha.ha ha ha ha !!!!
is true.
Don't look at bplus

[TerryRitchie]

This game is crazy addictive!

[FellippeHeitor]

This game is crazy addictive!

Thank you, Terry!

Since I'm cloning it, I take credit for the implementation only, not the idea (but after @Donald Foster brought Otrio - https://www.qb64.org/forum/index.php?topic=2458.msg116818#msg116818 - into light, I don't think even Gamezaur can take full credits now).

[Dav]

This game is crazy addictive!

+1

- Dav