An entertaining and somewhat challenging game.
I don't really have any problems with this game - other than I manged to somehow get 3 locks on all three rows/columns and had to end the game :( I was doing quite well too!
I quite like the randomness with the way the stars and skulls appear - it cuts back the ability to achieve extremely high scores and can sometimes make or break a game :) Nice.
Good not great.
It's very attractive, the different items and the tactics associated with them are well thought out. Your success in this game is way too random though. Three times in a row, I rotated a row/column and the resulting row/column was all skulls. That's right, THREE times in a row. As long as there is the possibility for this to happen, a human player making the best possible moves cannot guarantee victory, and this is the problem I have with your game.
Suggestions to fix this:
1) Make it impossible to rotate to three of the same object, OR
2) Make it so that if you do rotate to three of the same object, the row you just rotated is not counted in any matches on that move. Maybe make it so that that row has "jet lag" so if you rotate an adjacent row/column, then the row of stars/skulls that you uncovered the previous move resolves.
Those are just a couple of suggestions which would eliminate the unfairness in this game. Very good concept. Attractive flash. -gc
Messes with my mind!
I love puzzle games. And this one is a GREAT puzzle game!
This game should be made famous, like Sudoku.
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I find the game based more on luck of the draw than anything, you can't entirely say it's luck by the simple fact of the strategy involved, but more so by luck of the rows. I find the fact that 2 locks can end up in row turns rather close to each other and fuck the game down to one row turn until you get a bomb, it completely removes strategy and usually results in a loss.
Well-made
However it's flawed by one big bug: sometimes when you rotate, you'll get three skulls and lose a third of your points. I don't know if it's intentional, or merely laziness, but it makes the game significantly more difficult.