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Author Topic: High Score Competition #136 Anteater  (Read 10504 times)

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #40 on: March 17, 2014, 12:01:06 pm »
Sorry all, either something weird going on with timing of posts or I just missed reading a bunch of posts.   219k is CRAZY.   I need to get back on this.

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #41 on: March 17, 2014, 12:14:31 pm »
Ooooh, look at me. I got a big score. I'm so proud of myself. Hooray for me.

I'm still nearly in last place, huh? You people...

46,260

-Jason

Still plenty of time left !!  Figure I started the competition with 13K and have been able to get to 69K - so definitely possible for you  :applaud:

Sorry all, either something weird going on with timing of posts or I just missed reading a bunch of posts.   219k is CRAZY.   I need to get back on this.

Yeah I just wonder if the game difficulty keeps increasing as you get higher scores or if it reaches a top speed - only thing that would help is the extra anteater every 20K if you could save up a few but 219K seems pretty impossible.
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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #42 on: March 17, 2014, 04:41:02 pm »
Looks like your wife just moved into second place with that score.

Well she isn't nececessarily part of the competition...I just wanted to brag.  :D
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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #43 on: March 17, 2014, 08:35:44 pm »
First to break 100k

105,850

Also, I was able to break the 11k for the first anthill.

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #44 on: March 17, 2014, 08:59:14 pm »
First to break 100k

105,850

Also, I was able to break the 11k for the first anthill.

Nice going  :notworthy: -- figured someone would make it there before the end of the week - IIRC the best I've done on the first anthill was 10,600 ( I know it was higher than the first high score on the screen but barely ) and made it past 20K on the 2nd hill ( had made it to 49K with all my lives left that game and then lost 3 in a row before 53K ) Managed to improve just a bit to 75,700 earlier but haven't posted it since it still didn't get past the 2nd place score and I'l do better before this ends.

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #45 on: March 17, 2014, 09:20:00 pm »
90,980

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #46 on: March 17, 2014, 10:46:37 pm »
First to break 100k

105,850

Also, I was able to break the 11k for the first anthill.

Nice going  :notworthy: -- figured someone would make it there before the end of the week - IIRC the best I've done on the first anthill was 10,600 ( I know it was higher than the first high score on the screen but barely ) and made it past 20K on the 2nd hill ( had made it to 49K with all my lives left that game and then lost 3 in a row before 53K ) Managed to improve just a bit to 75,700 earlier but haven't posted it since it still didn't get past the 2nd place score and I'l do better before this ends.

What I've found is that the first 2-3 anthills I go all out on.   Then thru anthill 10 or 11 I get the the first 4 rows done during light and use queen ants to get last rows.   But now I'm at the point that to continue on most likely I will have to start retracting tongue to top when the spider comes out and clear a path.   There just simply not enough time to clear the board using daylight and queen ants.   Hope that made sense.   ;D

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #47 on: March 19, 2014, 02:07:33 pm »
Beginning to hate this game - making it to 65K+ with all lives left and then lose 3 very quickly and games over before 90K  :badmood: :angry:

Anyway making it to the mid 80Ks now with high score currently at 87,610   

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #48 on: March 22, 2014, 09:47:32 pm »
A little insurance...

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #49 on: March 22, 2014, 09:51:13 pm »
I cant even get close to my previous score

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Re: High Score Competition #136 Anteater
« Reply #50 on: March 23, 2014, 07:18:08 am »
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