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You must have figured out how they score the different numbers. 96 is like 780 points, 192 gets 3500, 384 gets around 6200 points, 768 gets 22000 or so... Did you find an obvious pattern? I was curious about this but too busy enjoying the game to think about it.

*edit Someone figured it out here: http://bitsplitting.org/2014/02/11/threes-scoring/



Article isn't loading for me, but each (3+) tile can be represented as 3 * 2^k, and it's score is calculated as 3^(k+1)

    3   -> 3 * 2^0 -> 3^1 -> 3 pts
    6   -> 3 * 2^1 -> 3^2 -> 9 pts
    192 -> 3 * 2^6 -> 3^7 -> 2,187 pts
I may have an off-by-one (degree) error though. It helps to be a big math geek who looks for exponents everywhere.




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