Found this while driving back from LA.
It's a normal claw game, but they upped the prizes a bit. By attaching money to smaller prizes, they've increased the incentive to play by a lot.
Fun Fact: This game actually received a citation because one person considered it gambling, and it was temporarily removed, but was put back but there was no proof of it being luck only. It's nothing more than (considerably) raising the value of hard to grab stuffed animals.
This is DCON 2011 (Cal-Nev-Ha DCON in Burbank). In three words: Informative, Fun, and Unforgettable. Featuring various workshops, performances, and lots of spirit.
Though it was fun, our team of eight people could not do much spirit wise, and my original thoughts about DCON were proven wrong here. I need to be back for another year to fully enjoy this.
Which is why I have decided to go for (the newly created) Tech Chair. And being the district committee sounds nice... I might go for that one.
This was our group of eight that represented our Circle K Club.
Full Album on Facebook (privacy set to 'everyone' and anyone can comment for up to two weeks after the event so that people in at DCON who don't have any mutual friends with me can see the entire album / comment.)
NOTE: If you know anyone in any of my pictures, feel free to tag them.
(Drops two coins into the bucket)
I'm happy because there's a new board, and DCON is coming up this Friday. And...
(drops two more)
I'm sad because I was unable to make the top 3 in the leaderboard (I was off by around 100k), and because I didn't win treasurer position. (Erika will probably not be impressed with this statement.)*
And now our daily tip: The margin of hitting gap shots on the top is very small, even when firing two in rapid succession, so practice your timing. Here's a color coded guide on how to determine what color balls you will hit behind the gap. Or, you could wait for the bottom, but who doesn't?
Color Guide: If you fire two balls in quick succession without moving your mouse, it shows where the first and second balls will (at full speed) hit at 1:00 game time (red), 1:30 (yellow), and 2:00 (green), so plan accordingly.
This screen below I consider a happy/sad situation: Frog died but high score at the same time.
*This is a reference to my Circle K club, which does happy/sad coins. No relation to the game though, so keep playing on.
I learned a lot of things from Mrs. Langone (my chemistry teacher) back in MCHS, but I never knew she had a second job... as a rapper.
NOTE: I did not record this video; another student did this.
It's internally called Arches, but you probably wouldn't know since they didn't do a Tiki Talk this week. The board is shaped somewhat like a three leaf clover.
It's also the first board I played through that is NOT symmetrical on the ball trail. I got disoriented at first when the balls were coming out of the right side of the board.
TIP: Gap shots before the 2nd minute of gameplay should focus on the lower right hand corner, then on the top as they get too fast. Fruit can appear on the lower track in the loop in the first curve, directly north of you, and on the top left.
Many people have claimed this, so I used Fiddler to debug the web connection process when running the game with ads showing. This has been verified.
It appears to work by doing some cross-site scripting on one of the ads in the form of a iframe. A cgi file then redirects to two other sites (not Popcap and not of US origin) before initializing Java and installing malware. It's also possible it's using an SWF exploit to do this as well. (Oh, it also redirects to twitter part of the way through, which explains what some users are experiencing)
Luckily, it's injected as part of the ad, so any ad-blocker such as AdBlock for Firefox should prevent this problem from occurring.
To be safe, I'll be off the game for a while and will not pursue anymore high scores for the remainder of the week until they get it fixed. (I am in 3rd for the time being, and 2nd after recently getting a 5m score.)
