When game hobbies randomly intersect.

[Generic Eric]

Do you have a minute to hear about Threes?

Do you like iOS games?
Play Threes.
Do you like to slide tiles up, down, left *and* right?
Play Threes.
Do you like to add numbers?
Play Threes.
Especially the numbers 1 and 2?
Play Threes.
Do you like to add other numbers?
Play Threes.
How about multiples of the number 3.

Here is how you play. Slide the number 1 tile to the number 2 tile.
Now you are playing Threes. You've made a number 3 tile.
Slide it to another number 3 tile. You are playing Threes.
You have a number 6 tile now. You know what to do.

Play Threes.
How do you get it?
https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/threes!/id779157948?mt=8

MAME Developer Nicola Salmoria Builds 'Threes!' Playing Bot

While us plebs are busy focusing on doing everything we can to to mash two 768's together, analytically minded folks on our forums are going hog wild deconstructing the algorithms powering the game of Threes! [$1.99]. I'm really not sure I've ever seen anything like it, at least not on our forums, but our Threes! thread has almost entirely shifted from discussing game strategies to straight up trying to figure out the inner workings of the game to accurately predict what the next cards the game gives you are going to be.
MAME creator Nicola Salmoria has even joined the party, building a Threes! AI simulator