Years ago, when Minesweeper was a cool game on Windows, I noticed it got
lots more difficult as my scores got higher. I a way, I expected that --
you have to get better at it to get higher scores.
But I noticed that it wasn't my not getting better that was
problematic. I could get to the end and have one mine to fine and a
choice of two places for it to be and I'd always choose the wrong one.
Of coure, there's no way to back up a few moves and take another run at
it, but I learned to be very suspicious the game was making whichever I
chose the wrong choice.
And then, like a dollar slot machine, it would let me have one, just
to keep me playing.
Solitaire also seemed to do that -- reset the scores and I could
almost win blindfolded, but get the scores up and suddenly the game
didn't just get more difficult, it got impossible for 20 or so plays,
then allow a winner, then another dry spell. I could play with real
cards on the kitchen table and have lots better odds, so I knew it
wasn't me just not conforming to the need for increased skill, and I was
pretty certain it wasn't a luck factor.
Frustrating, ain't it.
Which is why I don't play the slots. Especially after I learned they
actually are programmed that way -- 95 percent of the money that goes in
the front of the machine goes out the back, but that 5 percent is just
enough to keep the suckers playing, each one hoping he'll be the guy to
get the jackpot.
Leland Cox wrote:
> My wife is an avid player and she says the same thing has happened to
> her. I do not play as often but the game does seems to get harder as
> you play!
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> I would have sworn that I had moves left when everything gets the
> shakes and says "no more moves". Of course the pieces are removed so
> fast you can't check it out!
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> Leland Cox
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> --- In [email protected], Jim C <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
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>> Ok enough of these trivial problems about batteries, hard resets and
>> all. Let's get to something serious! Is there s secret strategy to
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> get
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>> high scores on Bejeweled? When I first started playing it every so
>> often, it would say Congratulations you have the high score. The table
>> had scores between 35,000 and 50,000 points. Then I got a few good
>> games. Now the high scores table runs from a high of 157,250
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> points to
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>> a low of 102,230 points. Now that I have those all I can get is
>> between 5,000 and 35,000 points. What am I doing wrong?
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>> Jim
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/"Thirty-five million deaths leave an empty place at only one family
table." /
(News commentator Eric Severied in a radio essay on the 25th
anniversary of the start of World War Two. 8/31/64)
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