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Lionturtle
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Clicking everything in the second row and bringing the tiles down is not a reliable solution for that problem, as I often go from 3 tiles in the fifth row to 5 or 1, and have to try many times before getting an even number.
Huh - I hit my cap yesterday with that method and never had that happen. Always got an even number. Are you working consistently from the top down?
Recalling that the three key moves from that method are:
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If you weren't able to bring all tiles to the bottom because you have an odd number of tiles in the fourth row, click all tiles in the fourth row and continue solving.
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If you have an odd number of tiles in the fifth row, click all tiles in the second row and bring the resulting tiles down.
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If you have leftover tiles in the bottom two rows and you can't clear them, click the top two corners and bring the resulting tiles to the bottom, like this:
On a few occasions, I had to do all three of those things to get a solve, but as long as I kept working downward, and thus hitting each move in order, I never had to do any individual move more than once.
I don't know if it's relevant, but after the click-all-in-the-second-row move (which leaves you with the center three hexes in that row tripped), the quickest way to move said hexes down is to click the third, fifth, and sixth hexes of the third row.
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Melova
Honestly, I wouldn't bother. I spent
a lot of time playing with various configurations of special mode, and while it's a bit frustrating to think I did all that for nothing, now that I know about
the hard-mode hack mentioned above, I don't think I'm going back. You only get 1,600t per solve as opposed to 2kt, but it's
one moveset to memorize that works in
any configuration on a single consistent board, rather than memorizing the many movesets for the many possible configurations of all four special boards. It's much easier to do mindlessly, which means you can splitscreen it with the coli or other tasks.
Of course, solves for the other shapes might be fun to find just for the puzzle of it, but I doubt they'll ever be worth it in terms of treasure for your time.