
There's still a lot to do in the house, but we are pretty much settled. Thank you for your excellent feedbacl JL. Still got a lot to unpack, but can't until the bedroom and Study are finished as well as the kitchen diner has its flooring installed. (Hope you're finally settled into that new house, Stephen! Good luck)

I can't see myself ever NOT playing this game, I guess! In fact, it's almost always running in the background every day. It can get really challenging, trust me, especially the very last level - I "lost" a few players before getting to a million the first time, but once I realized what I had to plan for I have been able to keep going since - and I remember someone elsewho commented the last time it was given away who has a multimillion point score, so I'm not the only one who finds it an eminently replayable game. Of course, you have to like this sort of game - not really a match 3, but a strategy game that requires advance planning like chess to master (you have to plan ahead for what colors will come up-and where-vs what colors you need), fashioned around a match-3 type of game engine. But overall, for graphics, design, playability, increasing difficulty (adding a color every time you rollover makes it much harder by the 3rd round), graphics and replay value, I have to give it nearly a 10. It's not for everyone, as you point out, and IMO it has a glaring flaw - there's no key mapped to the "Undo" button (you can't get such high scores without judicious and repeated use of "Undo"!) and it can take a lot of clicks with the mouse to set up a successful line of attack, which is very awkward sometimes.

I've been playing the same game for months and my current score is 2,957,530 points (I've lost track of how many times it's rolled over), and my goal is 3 million. Had to jump in because this is one of my favorite games, a go-to when I'm bored or have a few minutes, or when I just need a distraction. I appreciate that there isn't a big focus on a lame story that I have to skip through. It requires more strategy than just dumb luck. This is a very non-traditional match 3 game, and once I found my way out of the rabbit hole I am really enjoying it. It may be simpler than converting your favorite tunes to. On most of these games, I turn the music off and play my choice of music with the VLC player as I play the game.

I mention this just in case anyone else encounters this problem-you MUST give yourself a player name in order for the game to work properly and with graduated difficulty levels!! I didn't know what the heck was going on for quite a while. The result was that I didn't get the help instructions, and the game jumped from one level to the next higher level without the intermediate steps in between. I didn't read the directions all the way through (my bad), and so I just started the game without giving myself a specific player name.
