![]() ![]() I haven’t said anything about how to find words - this is an issue common to all of these words games, most notably Boggle. By making a short word that removes a letter or two that is in the way, you can sometimes connect the word and use it in your next turn to clear out a critical column. Rather than taking a chance with getting good letters in your next row, you can sometimes find a word which is almost connected, but not quite. Sometimes you just can’t find any word, and you are close to death. There is one more special technique that is handy when you really need it. ![]() Even more important: save up the short J, X, Q, and Z words, because they are really helpful in a jam. Save the short ones for emergencies and to help cut down pesky little towers or accumulations of black spaces before they get out of control. So again, if you can’t find a long word, it is usually better to add a row of letters than to make a 3 or 4 letter word. If you quickly use up many of the three letter words, you won’t have those words left to help you when they are the only way to save you from death. Yet another advantage is that you save the short, common words for an emergency. You also avoid selectively removing the letters with no nasty little 6’s in the corners, creating a board in which most of the remaining letters do have these nasty 6’s. The obvious advantage is that you clear more letters, since five (or more) letter words clear all adjoining squares. The next principle is to make long words rather than short ones. Then examine the effect it will have on your shape before you hit the last letter a second time to enter the word. Always enter the letters one by one until the board displays exactly which letters will be removed. If you can’t find any, just add another row until you can. So always look first for words that use letters in the extreme side columns. The reason for this is simple: the side rows are the hardest to clear because there are fewer possible words to make when you can connect to letters on just one side. Instead, try to cultivate a shape in which the board is even, or better yet, shaped like an upside down U where the middle columns are higher than the sides. There is no problem in letting several turns go by without making any words at all - that just gives you a bigger collection of letters and more choices.Īpproaching one million pointsThe main strategic principle is to avoid developing towers on the sides of the board. Don’t play too fast, and don’t feel that you have to enter a word just because you found it. The key to getting a high score is patience. How I Scored A Million Points In SpellTower Some of it may seem obvious, and some of it you may not have considered, but here it is in full, explained in his own words in this blog’s very first Guest Post: So I asked Jerry if he would share his strategy. ![]() On Jerry’s behalf, I bragged to SpellTower creator Zach Gage via Twitter. (His score won’t show up in Game Center until he ends the game). He’s confident he can keep playing as long as he wants. He has passed 1,000,000 points, adding about 20,000 points a day. The other day he told me that he’s been playing the same continuous game for over a month now and has obliterated his own high score. Like most people who play the game once, he was hooked, so he bought SpellTower for his own iPad. He still has the high score on the leader board with 167,275 points. By the time I took my iPad back at the end of the trip, he had already broken the SpellTower “Puzzle Mode” record on the Game Center leader board by almost 100,000 points (and shattered my high score of 17,876 which I thought was pretty good). The game combines elements of Boggle and Tetris, and I thought he would enjoy it. Over the holidays, I showed him SpellTower on my iPad. At family gatherings, he wins practically every game of Scrabble, Boggle, Bridge, you name it. He says he dabbles in games and puzzles “occasionally for relaxation,” but that understates his skill. He’s a retired economist for the FTC with a passion for music and a life-long interest in math and science. SpellTower Champ JerryMy father-in-law Jerry is great at word puzzles. ![]()
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The whole game is hand-drawn and is bloody marvellous to behold. See the full list below, and also check out Nintendos updated Game Store list, here. The Valhalla Edition also has an extra mode which ramps up the challenge when taking on Jötunn. You play dead Viking Thora, as she tries to redeem herself by battling the five aforementioned giant lads, or Jötunn, so she can please the gods enough for them to let her into Valhalla. Meanwhile, Thunder Lotus’s action-adventure Jotun: Valhalla Edition is full of big elemental lads trying to stamp you straight down into the floor of the underworld. It’s content to be itself and let you find it, which is a damned rare treat in this hobby.” “It doesn’t yank the camera from you, doesn’t force you to sit through cutscenes, doesn’t demand you sit still and listen to its backstory. “Prey is a game that’s smart about almost every aspect of itself, and yet with that, so crucially modest,” he said. John (RPS in peace) recommended Arkane’s pulp sci-fi reimagining in his Prey review. Head here to claim your free download from 4pm BST. Personally, composer Mick Gordon’s banger opening track Everything Is Going To Be Okay is worth it alone, to my mind. ![]() It's been on Game Pass for a while, but if you want to own it forever, then now's the time to do it. Creepy morphing aliens called the Typhon have escaped containment in orbit around the Moon and, notably, you can turn into a cup among the other items lying around the game’s Talos I space station. Check the Epic Games Store at around 8am PST / 4pm BST for the changeover.Īrkane’s Prey is a bananas alternate timeline immersive sim from 2017 where JFK dodging the magic bullet results in some significant changes to the Space Race. You’ll be able to nab them for zero currency later on today, but for now there’s still time to grab last week’s complimentary game, Terraforming Mars (which you can do here). 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Posted by Ice Cream Conversations on Thursday, AugPersonal Life Viola Davis' Husband Julius Tennon To Guest Star On 'How To Get Away With Murder' #JuliusTennon #HTGAWM #TVScoop #PowerCouples #IceCreamConvos Recent years have seen him work more of a background role – one of his latest projects is the film “Batman vs Superman: Dawn of Justice”. Following his work with the show, he started a production company alongside his wife called JeVee Productions, to help create more opportunities and stories related to people of color. The show attracted a lot of critical acclaim during its run, and is one of the biggest hits for CBS in terms of rating. The show follows the lives and careers of members of the FBI Behavioral Analysis Unit or BAU, as they use profiling and behavioral analysis to solve crimes. In 2006, he played the character Carl Buford in the series “ Criminal Minds”. 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The upcoming winter season is imminent, and the speaker must mentally prepare for the challenges it brings.įor the long bitter nights and the wild winter's day The sky appears sad and gloomy, which sets the tone for the upcoming bleak winter season.Īs the changing of seasons prepares me again How pale is the sky that brings forth the rain Overall, "Get Me Through December" is a poignant meditation on the pain of the winter season and the hardships of emotional struggle. The song ends with the same plea to be guided through the difficult times and given the chance to start anew. The final verse acknowledges that there is no easy path to freedom from sin or to inner peace, and the narrator continues to search for love and fulfillment. The chorus of the song repeats the phrase "Get me through December" as a plea for help and a promise to remember the difficult times. This mountain seems to symbolize a place of healing for those who have been wounded or lost. ![]() The following verse describes the narrator's journey to a mountain where she has left tracks in the snow. These lines suggest a sense of emotional withdrawal and perhaps even depression. The narrator's heart has grown cold, and her love has been stored away. The opening lines describe the changing of the seasons and the coming of winter, which is often harsh and bitter. The song "Get Me Through December" by Natalie MacMaster is a somber reflection on the difficulties of winter and the struggles of enduring emotional pain. ![]() ![]() These shots help to establish the local geography more clearly than in the theatrical version.Īfter Godfrey ( Liam Neeson ) and his men arrive, there is a new scene of them having dinner with Godfreys elder brother ( Robert Pugh ). ![]() There are several newly added shots of the French village as Balian walks away from the prison. 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The so-called Templar who attacks Balian before the battle of Hattin (in 1187) wears a white surcoat bearing a black cross: the arms of the Order of St Mary of the Germans (aka the Teutonic Knights). In Jerusalem at that moment-between the Second and Third Crusades-a fragile peace prevails, through the efforts of its enlightened Christian king, Baldwin IV, aided by his advisor Tiberias, and the military. Revealing himself as Balians father, Godfrey shows him the true meaning of knighthood and takes him on a journey across continents to the fabled Holy City. The religious wars raging in the far-off Holy Land seem remote to him, yet he is pulled into that immense drama.Īmid the pageantry and intrigues of medieval Jerusalem, he falls in love, grows into a leader, and ultimately uses all his courage and skill to defend the city against staggering odds.ĭestiny comes seeking Balian in the form of a great knight, Godfrey of Ibelin, a Crusader briefly home to France from fighting in the East. ![]() ![]() Since you said you get distortion from your keyboards audio outs, you’re either using the wrong outs, or the sound card’s levels are too high…the card you’re plugging it into, and you must likely have that one selected as Cubase’s ASIO device.Īt any rate, apparently it’s USB carries audio & midi and I’m assuming simultaneously by my quick read. Once you select a sound card in Cubase as your ASIO device, or a device that acts as a sound card (your keyboard in this case I think) you should then be open it’s control panel from that dialog box, adjust levels, pan, etc, etc. What sound card DO you have? I believe every ‘audio device’ has it’s own control panel where you can adjust it’s levels…even the cheapo one’s built into motherboards (don’t use that). It has a regular midi connection, but your sound card doesn’t have a midi in. I have to think you’re doing something wrong, rather than something is wrong with it. Interesting, apparently it acts as a sound card as well, so that you can plug in other instruments which send that audio to your computer (?) It does look like a very nice keyboard. If that doesn’t resolve it in a few days, I’ll just return the synthesizer to the store for a refund, as I only have 14 days to do a return. I sent a problem report to Yamaha support this weekend, but have to wait until Monday to get a response. This doesn’t seem to be a CPU usage issue, as none of the 8 “CPUS” (4 hyper threading cores) are running over 20%. Using headphones plugged into the synthesizer while playing a midi file, I’m also sometimes hear clicks and pops, perhaps after 5 to 10 minutes of usage. Generally if software generates audio data, it will go through the sound card, so for some reason the Yamaha Steinberg USB driver apparently isn’t generating audio data and I don’t see a volume slider on any audio control panel. The “audio” driver can’t be installed, it stops with an error “no … device found”, although the MOXF8 device shows up in device list when it’s connected and powered on, and also shows up as a sound device with it’s own “line”. ![]() I can get a USB to midi adapter, but that would still be USB on the computer end, which seems to be the problem. 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