PLAY BEJEWELED 2 ON FIREFOX SOFTWARE
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I just said I was really good at blackjack, and left. He asked how I’d managed to keep beating him, as he’d never figured it out. I told him my username on his BBS, and his jaw dropped. Years later I was at Radio Shack talking to an employee, when he mentioned he ran that BBS. The popularity of his BBS dropped, and calls to my BBS surged. At which point he was clearly exposed as a cheater, unwilling to let anyone win the challenge he had proposed. Which not met the “impossible” challenge, but beat him by a large amount.Īnd then he instantly increased his score by an amount which would take a human playing *thousands* of hours to manage. Suspecting he was just editing his score rather than actually playing, I removed the delays entirely and ran the program for one final, marathon session. On the third day, his score increased by a huge amount, which would have taken him literally all day to achieve and the maximum bid amount in blackjack was reduced. In response, his score soon jumped back up to #1. At first I had it set up with random delays to simulate human behavior, and to detect and sound an alarm if any unusual activity was detected just in case he was awake and broke in to chat. I decided to dethrone him by writing a Blackjack ‘bot which would automatically dial in the wee hours of the morning, and play until it beat his score. I’d made it to #2 on the high score list fairly, but he always managed to stay in #1 spot by a slim margin no matter how well or often I played. The sysop regularly and publicly challenged people to beat his cumulative score. My first was written to play the games on a local BBS, way back when.

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Posted in Software Hacks Tagged bejeweled, bot, puzzle, solver, solving Post navigationīots are fun and intellectually challenging to write. That’s the difficult part, choosing the best move is just a matter of coming up with your own rules on how the bot should play the game. Many of the jewels are easily recognized in this first pass, but some are harder and require several different tests to identify.

The program then identifies each game piece by finding the center of the cell and taking a 25 square-pixel average color. You can see at the beginning of the video after the break that he sizes his app to properly align each jewel in its grid.

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His code (he’s not releasing it so you’ll have to write your own) scrapes the screen image as input. We spoke with yesterday afternoon to get a bit of background on how he made this happen. We think you’d be hard pressed to achieve a 1.5 million range score by yourself, even with that amount of practice time.

He figures he took between 48 and 72 hours of coding over a couple of weeks, but remember, he was learning the language at the same time. He was learning to write in the C# language and decided to make a bot that plays Bejeweled Blitz on Facebook. Programmers don’t need to get good at a game to achieve a high score, they code a bot for that instead.

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