Pearl Flash Game

[rayray2]

Okay, I give up. What's the trick?

http://www.ebaumsworld.com/pearl.shtml

 

[Leros]

i just lost three times

 

[So]

Perl flash fame? 😕

 

[BrokenVisage]

three items?

 

[tami]

i bet it's rigged.

 

[Leros]

how can it be rigged. The computer is playing by the same rules we are.

 

[NikPreviousAcct]

I think the key is who goes first, but I can't seem to figure out much more than how to lose 😛

 

[Leros]

My friend says he played a similiar game and the only way to win is some binary method.

 

[Ilmater]

It's not possible. You can't win if you go first.

 

[Hyperion042]

It's cake to solve. Here's what you do:
Open a second instance of the game in your browser, so you have two going at once. In the first game, let the guy go first and then mirror his move in the second game. Then mirror the second game's response in the first. Thus, you end up with two games with the exact same position at any given turn, only you're playing one side in the first instance and the other side in the second. Thus, one of the instances will always win. 😛

 

[BrokenVisage]

It don't matter who goes first.

 

[Leros]

Originally posted by: Hyperion042
It's cake to solve. Here's what you do:
Open a second instance of the game in your browser, so you have two going at once. In the first game, let the guy go first and then mirror his move in the second game. Then mirror the second game's response in the first. Thus, you end up with two games with the exact same position at any given turn, only you're playing one side in the first instance and the other side in the second. Thus, one of the instances will always win. 😛

Thats easy, but how do you really do it?

 

[Hyperion042]

Same way the comp does it, raw prediction. IIRC, games of this nature are perfectly solvable, so I think that with perfect play from either side then whoever starts will either always win or always lose, but I'm not certain what you'd do here.
The trick seems to be setting up just one pearl in three rows and none in the last one.

 

[Fenixgoon]

you can forfeit a turn and not pick pearls.. i think thats how you win (the guy just skipped his turn and gave it to me, the bastard:|)

edit: wtf, im not allowed to pass my turn, but he can!

found the moves to make the computer cheat by skipping a turn:

remove 4 pearls from the row of six.

the computer will clear 4 from the row of 5.

remove all 4 from the row of 4.

computer skips turn (cheating bastard)

 

[Fenixgoon]

fenixgoon 1, computer 0

 

[kermalou]

he sure skips turns

 

[alexjohnson16]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
you can forfeit a turn and not pick pearls.. i think thats how you win (the guy just skipped his turn and gave it to me, the bastard:|)

edit: wtf, im not allowed to pass my turn, but he can!

found the moves to make the computer cheat by skipping a turn:

remove 4 pearls from the row of six.

the computer will clear 4 from the row of 5.

remove all 4 from the row of 4.

computer skips turn (cheating bastard)

Doesn't work for me... If I remove 4 from the row of 6, he does 1 from the row of 4.

 

[everman]

It's a "really" old game. Skipping turns is not allowed for obvious reasons.

 

[Fenixgoon]

Originally posted by: alexjohnson16

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
you can forfeit a turn and not pick pearls.. i think thats how you win (the guy just skipped his turn and gave it to me, the bastard:|)

edit: wtf, im not allowed to pass my turn, but he can!

found the moves to make the computer cheat by skipping a turn:

remove 4 pearls from the row of six.

the computer will clear 4 from the row of 5.

remove all 4 from the row of 4.

computer skips turn (cheating bastard)

Doesn't work for me... If I remove 4 from the row of 6, he does 1 from the row of 4.

maybe its different for everyone then?

 

[Jgtdragon]

stupid computer

 

[rayray2]

I thought with all the smart people on this board, someone could figure it out!

 

[KLin]

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon

Originally posted by: alexjohnson16

Originally posted by: Fenixgoon
you can forfeit a turn and not pick pearls.. i think thats how you win (the guy just skipped his turn and gave it to me, the bastard:|)

edit: wtf, im not allowed to pass my turn, but he can!

found the moves to make the computer cheat by skipping a turn:

remove 4 pearls from the row of six.

the computer will clear 4 from the row of 5.

remove all 4 from the row of 4.

computer skips turn (cheating bastard)

Doesn't work for me... If I remove 4 from the row of 6, he does 1 from the row of 4.

maybe its different for everyone then?

It worked for me. The game is rigged :thumbsdown: