P.S. Fern Forest, that’s great!
How are you setting up positions?
I got 2656 without much setup on about my 10th try. I thought it was going to go alot longer but then it slowed down and stopped.
Damn, that’s a big number. Is that with a set up or from a reset?
The best I can get today is 2898. If you’ll notice my last pattern it has a large diamond shape in the middle where I didn’t try anything for fear of setting off part of the pattern before it was ready. I think the more mixed that center is the better it is at keeping things going. When it goes it looks like a minute hand moving backwards/
Turn the bottom left square twice.
same deal, turn the bottom left twice.
BTW, it’s possible to cheat but I don’t think it actually helps you. While the thing is spinning around you can click really fast on other squares and they’ll start turning. The reason I don’t think it helps is it resets your score to zero. Maybe if you started a set up at 2 corners rather then just one.
The game this is based on goes by a few different names. I think its most common is “Chain Reaction”
http://www.blackdog.net/games/arcade/chainreaction/
That is the first version of “Chain Reaction” I googled.
All of the games work on the same principle. Each cell or pod can only hold a certain number of items. when it hits its maximum number, it will disperse one item to each of its neighboring cells.
I first encountered the game on a Midway Touchmaster Counter top coin op system a few years back under the name “Pods”
The actual distribution of items in the cell gives Chain Reaction a flavor of a 2-d mancala or awari.
I came across Disinfect the Core again a few days ago, but it just now occurred to me that there’s a strong resemblance here, too. It has the rotating cells, although each cell has only one connector.