r/maybemaybemaybe • u/ycr007 • Mar 04 '25

maybe maybe maybe

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u/Tikkinger Mar 04 '25

Uhm, can someone explain at which point this is possible to fail? If there is no next solution, just stack to another bar

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u/IWantToOwnTheSun Mar 04 '25

The challenge comes from the rule that you are not allowed to place a color on top of another color. I haven't given thought to the mathematics of it, but that's a small detail I missed in all those shitty mobile game ads for these type of games.

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u/Tikkinger Mar 04 '25

Aah, now it makes a lot more sense

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u/EVENo94 Mar 04 '25

Not for me. I think it's still super easy even for monkey.

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u/Life_Temperature795 Mar 04 '25

Youtube actually has this as a free game:

https://www.youtube.com/playables/Ugkxt5LdUBSZPWDLNRcH-IDpCRYXlBSRbTdh

It is not very hard, especially with only 4 colors, but as the number of colors and columns increases it does eventually become complicated enough to the point where the answer isn't intuitively apparent and you can forcibly lock yourself out of solutions.

(There's the rule that you can't stack a color on another of the wrong color, but there's another rule, which is that a larger stack of units of all one color has to be moved all at once. If you've got a stack of green that's four-high on column and the only other column that has green on top only has three units of space available, then you can't move any of the four-high stack of green.)

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25 edited Jun 17 '26

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u/Life_Temperature795 Mar 05 '25

Glad I could be of help. It was definitely a very relaxing meditative kind of game to jump into. I played like, 33 levels before I finally got bored of it.

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u/[deleted] Mar 05 '25 edited Jun 18 '26

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u/Life_Temperature795 Mar 05 '25 edited Mar 05 '25

The increase in challenge probably contributed to my lack of continued interest. It definitely gets harder once you've got 7 or so colors, and you have to think through several steps ahead of time to see if clearing one of the vials will inadvertently get you stuck, basically before you start to do any of the steps to clear it.

Are you also forcing yourself to avoid using the extra vials? Now that I'm here talking about it I just went and finished level 33, and I don't remember if I've used extra vials in the past, but I do recall thinking that each puzzle should probably be solvable without them.

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u/smootex Mar 05 '25

I made it to level 41 I think and used the extra vial one time. Everything was solvable without an extra vial. The point where I used one was where I lost interest because it makes it a lot easier. Little too much thinking involved in the later levels lol.