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Discussion for the game Farkle! by Gritty
@Queen_City_Nerd wins the July tournament! This time the tournament progressed more evenly. A double win with +10 points near the end could've swung the result in any direction. Certainly made it more interesting to follow, although the tournament shouldn't be winnable by just having good luck... I wonder if 30 days is sufficient time to actually filter out the random noise and produce a statistically significant result? Anyway, congrats!
đŦ 2 comments ¡ Aug 01 ¡ 3 weeks ago
A UX suggestion â I usually play on my Android phone, and the keyboard pops up with qwerty, not numbers, requiring an extra keystroke every time. I'd love to be able to use 'qwerty' mapped to 123456 positions. it's a little or unorthodox, but would improve the power user experience.
đŦ 8 comments ¡ Jul 23 ¡ 5 weeks ago
I would like to suggest if ever there is a desire to change, that first place gets 5 points, 2nd gets 4, 3rd get 3, 4th gets 2 and 5th gets 1 in the tournament. What I've noticed is that to get to place 1,2, or 3 you need to get such a high score that I end up playing more of a all or nothing. I see that if there are more positions/point I could be using a different technique of consistantly going for 4 or 5 place instead of a higher place. I think it would worth a try. When I play that type of...
đŦ 1 comment ¡ 2 likes ¡ Jul 23 ¡ 5 weeks ago
it appears 'total games' has a bug... there's not enough days since the implementation to have 32 games. adding to the todo list. this of course is throwing off the 'per game' averages. I'm hoping it's just how I'm pulling the data.
đŦ 7 comments ¡ Jul 23 ¡ 5 weeks ago
@gritty is the round 12 bug still a mystery? Do you have any ideas about when it happens?
đŦ 1 comment ¡ Jul 21 ¡ 5 weeks ago
the next game reset will bring up a game stats page
đŦ 4 comments ¡ Jul 20 ¡ 5 weeks ago
@sev Wow that's a nice score. Multiple filled rounds I assume?
đŦ 1 comment ¡ 2 likes ¡ Jul 19 ¡ 5 weeks ago
I still haven't resolved the tie for first on the weekly high score. after yesterday, it's happening more than I thought. I'll try to get to this soon
đŦ View post ¡ Jul 10 ¡ 7 weeks ago
Update: I pushed the new user stats feature. Currently it is not tracking the tournament stats, so those will always be zero, for now.
đŦ 3 comments ¡ 2 likes ¡ Jul 07 ¡ 7 weeks ago
Got a basic user stats table mostly complete. I need to find some time to test and then I'll roll it out.
đŦ 1 comment ¡ 2 likes ¡ Jul 04 ¡ 7 weeks ago
Congrats @satch for winning the June tournament. You can now wear your đ flair if you like. :) The second tournament seemed to progress similarly to the first one, with the winner being clear from about mid-month onward. We only have a sample size of two, but I believe this reflects the 5-3-1 scoring: if one happens to get the top rank on multiple days, it builds a lead that's hard for anyone to beat due to the strong randomness in the game.
đŦ 2 comments ¡ 1 like ¡ Jul 01 ¡ 8 weeks ago
@gritty have you done a distribution analysis of your rng for farkle? I could just be exceptionally unlucky but the number of times I get farkled when rolling with 3 dice in play feels disproportionately high. The odds of getting just a single 1 or 5 is 30% for a single die so with 3 dice in play there should be a pretty low risk of a farkle given there are additional scoring options with 3 dice.
đŦ 8 comments ¡ Jun 27 ¡ 8 weeks ago
@gritty Is the game stuck? It should have advanced to the next day hours ago...
đŦ 14 comments ¡ 1 like ¡ Jun 23 ¡ 2 months ago
I'm considering changing the points to 3,2,1 instead of 5,3,1 for the tournament scoring, starting next month. thoughts?
đŦ 11 comments ¡ Jun 21 ¡ 2 months ago
Update If I didn't break anything, here's the newest features: Added: weekly high score that resets after Sundays Updated: ties for 1st, 2nd, 3rd place should now give points to everyone, e.g., if you tied for 3rd you'll get 1 point, even if the database pushed you out of the top three when sorting in descending order Note: I'll try and keep an eye on the tournament scoring for a couple days to make sure it's still functioning correctly
đŦ 7 comments ¡ 3 likes ¡ Jun 19 ¡ 2 months ago
Had my personal worst farkle yet 2500 points in one roll (tripple 1's and tripple 5's) rolled again and farkled with 6 dice :( anyone else got some high point farkles to share?
đŦ 2 comments ¡ Jun 16 ¡ 2 months ago
Pending new high score alert
đŦ 1 comment ¡ 2 likes ¡ Jun 11 ¡ 2 months ago
Was very lucky today, scoring 4150 points in single round. đ Before this I had already farkled a few rounds, so it was a bit of a rollercoaster of a game. [preformatted]
đŦ 3 likes ¡ Jun 08 ¡ 3 months ago
I don't think the high score is serving much of a purpose currently. I would suggest automatically resetting every week, or maybe just removing it altogether? [gemini link]
đŦ 5 comments ¡ 1 like ¡ Jun 02 ¡ 3 months ago
If all goes well, we'll have our first full month for the tournament. I logged the pages locally in case my script goes awry. Thanks for playing! I finally had some time to work on the suggested interface upgrades, but waiting until a new month.
đŦ 5 comments ¡ 4 likes ¡ Jun 01 ¡ 3 months ago
@gritty If you are considering further UI improvements, maybe separate the Roll and Stand actions a bit more. Accidentally chose Stand today when I meant to select Roll... Some ideas that come to mind: Add an empty line between the actions to prevent simple mistaps on mobile Change the roll action label to "Roll 5 dice" (or however many are remaining)
đŦ 3 comments ¡ 1 like ¡ May 29 ¡ 3 months ago
@Queen_City_Nerd I noticed in Farkle you only get to round two. Is this on purpose?
đŦ 1 comment ¡ May 26 ¡ 3 months ago
Given the number of times I've just been farkled on rolls with 3 or 4 none held dice I can only conclude I'm unluck AF. LOL.
đŦ 4 comments ¡ May 21 ¡ 3 months ago
Duplicate page when submitting empty query string? â When starting today's game, the response was duplicated (see attachment). Otherwise everything worked normally. It does say "empty query string" in the second part, perhaps that's a clue. I'm still keeping my auto-prompt setting on so the first "farkle/app" will have an empty query string on it.
đŦ 1 comment ¡ May 19 ¡ 3 months ago
Farkle is too hard â I'm not sure I'm right here, but hear me out. I just made it to second place, so I don't think I'm just blaming my poor luck on the game when I say that getting high scores is harder than it should be. The issue isn't the number of points, obviously. It's that aside from collecting ones and fives and occasionally three of a kind, it's really hard to get a roll that scores anything. I've gone multiple games without any of those roles, and the only reason I made it to the...
đŦ 8 comments ¡ May 17 ¡ 3 months ago
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