2048: the Formula One Rejects edition

watka · Post by **watka** » 01 Apr 2014, 22:22

dinizintheoven wrote:
watka wrote:I imagine that if anyone did actually manage to complete it, it would take several hours.

It doesn't. If you've got your pattern recognition cracked, it should be possible to put in the first 256 tile in under two minutes. And I've just beaten it again, with a score of 20,424 and a time of 19 minutes and 9 seconds.

Does anyone want to fill in the reject car hierarchy, or should it be kept secret until each tile is revealed for each player?

I got as far as Life.

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 01 Apr 2014, 22:26

watka wrote:
dinizintheoven wrote:
watka wrote:I imagine that if anyone did actually manage to complete it, it would take several hours.

It doesn't. If you've got your pattern recognition cracked, it should be possible to put in the first 256 tile in under two minutes. And I've just beaten it again, with a score of 20,424 and a time of 19 minutes and 9 seconds.

Does anyone want to fill in the reject car hierarchy, or should it be kept secret until each tile is revealed for each player?

I got as far as Life.

I'm guessing Life is after the Coloni?

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 01 Apr 2014, 22:39

i got to 14756 without any pattern recognition (because i'm actually quite bad at such things) so there's hope for the many of you

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 01 Apr 2014, 22:54

This wrote:i got to 14756 without any pattern recognition (because i'm actually quite bad at such things) so there's hope for the many of you

Using similar tactics,.... 4692. As has been said before, serious addictive. I was planning to go to bed at least an hour ago.

Only saw the Coloni for the first time this evening, and only saw the AGS once before that, with even the MasterCard Lola being rare.

go_Rubens · Post by **go_Rubens** » 01 Apr 2014, 23:21

I'm certainly struggling with the reject cars. My best there may be a 6608, but with the numbers, I'm easily in the 10000 range. Don't quite get what I am always doing wrong with the cars.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 02 Apr 2014, 00:19

dr-baker wrote:
This wrote:i got to 14756 without any pattern recognition (because i'm actually quite bad at such things) so there's hope for the many of you

Using similar tactics,.... 4692. As has been said before, serious addictive. I was planning to go to bed at least an hour ago. Only saw the Coloni for the first time this evening, and only saw the AGS once before that, with even the MasterCard Lola being rare.

The AGS is the 256 tile - the two-minute marvel. And the Lola? One minute. I'm telling you, crack the tactics and they'll drop in that fast.

In fact, I might move onto time trials - see how fast I can get an AGS on the board. Here goes...

...one minute, 58 seconds.

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 02 Apr 2014, 13:46

I am now done with 2048.

http://gyazo.com/c0c55bd7922e982e352e2b65c963cf80

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 02 Apr 2014, 14:09

Shizuka wrote:I am now done with 2048.

http://gyazo.com/c0c55bd7922e982e352e2b65c963cf80

Perry McCarthy in an Andea Moda. Of course it would be! Good choice...

Onxy Wrecked · Post by **Onxy Wrecked** » 02 Apr 2014, 17:05

644, truly rejectful.

That didn't hold long. It's now a 3652

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 02 Apr 2014, 19:49

looks like that 'high' score was really a lucky one, as i usually get easy to the Coloni-phase, but not past it anymore.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 02 Apr 2014, 23:03

Shizuka wrote:I am now done with 2048.
http://gyazo.com/c0c55bd7922e982e352e2b65c963cf80

So I may as well publish the entire hierarchy.

2: Super Aguri SA06 - Takuma Sato, 2006
4: HRT F111 - Vitantonio Liuzzi, 2011
8: Osella FA1L - Nicola Larini, 1988
16: Pacific PR02 - Jean-Denis Délétraz, 1995
32: Simtek S941 - Taki Inoue, 1994
64: Forti FG01 - Pedro Diniz, 1995
128: Lola T97/30 - Ricardo Rosset, 1997
256: AGS JH25 - Yannick Dalmas, 1990
512: Coloni C4 - Pedro Chaves, 1991
1024: Life L190 - Bruno Giacomelli, 1990
2048: Andrea Moda S921 - Perry McCarthy, 1992

The "odd one out", if you like, was the Osella, given that this is not technically a reject team by places gained, only by points (I suspect that debate still rages). Originally I was going to have a Minardi in there (probably 1989-90) but remembered the spectacularly prophetically-named FA1L and couldn't possible leave it out. Also, the Simtek and Pacific were originally in the opposite order, with a picture of Domenicao Schiattarella in a 1995 Simtek, until I realised what numbers they'd been running. Featuring a picture of the Forti with its obvious missing airbox was entirely deliberate. And it's also no coincidence that, apart from the Super Aguri and HRT, all the cars are from a ten-year period of glorious rejectdom.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 03 Apr 2014, 01:03

Just got my highest score of 5605 at 2 am just by almost pushing buttons at random... Really need my bed now...

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 03 Apr 2014, 05:33

dr-baker wrote:Just got my highest score of 5605 at 2 am just by almost pushing buttons at random... Really need my bed now...

Play for one corner. Watch how your score skyrockets.

roblo97 · Post by **roblo97** » 03 Apr 2014, 08:50

I have been playing this as part of an IT course on website interactivety and here are the scores...

me:1312 now 1788 2nd Winner now 2248

Anil:1372 WINNER WINNER

now 1452 now 2244
Shane:1040

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 03 Apr 2014, 10:48

I played the original version too for once, and although a 2 appeared in the upper right corner (I played for that spot), I still completed it, with a 21520 score:
http://gyazo.com/8adb89bef68493515252c54026df3aab

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 03 Apr 2014, 16:13

10300. Much better.

dr-baker · Post by **dr-baker** » 03 Apr 2014, 17:55

Finally up to 10224...

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 03 Apr 2014, 22:17

Finally some improvement again! 15516

TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 04 Apr 2014, 01:42

Decided that I had to join in on the fun, and got 5552 on my third attempt

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 04 Apr 2014, 22:38

16496 (i guess sometime i'll have to stop doing this

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TomWazzleshaw · Post by **TomWazzleshaw** » 05 Apr 2014, 10:41

I've upgraded myself from lower midfield to solid midfield status with a high score of 7088

DanielPT · Post by **DanielPT** » 05 Apr 2014, 16:36

I just did a 12936. Which is pretty much up there with my old score in the previous game.

Turbogirl · Post by **Turbogirl** » 08 Apr 2014, 16:04

Damn! I had such a good flow and almost managed to produce a second Life, but before I could do so, I was forced to use the Up-key, which is the dumbest thing to do in this game.

Oh well, actual score of 14340 (and one Life) for me...

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 08 Apr 2014, 20:29

So close to beating W12 :shock:

17052

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 08 Apr 2014, 20:56

Turbogirl wrote:Damn! I had such a good flow and almost managed to produce a second Life, but before I could do so, I was forced to use the Up-key, which is the dumbest thing to do in this game.

Not if you've kept a full column with the Life tile in it...

Turbogirl · Post by **Turbogirl** » 08 Apr 2014, 21:11

And here is another lucky winner!

Say, dinizintheoven, is it also possible to edit the phrase "You're winner" into the game? Somehow I was expecting it so say that line after I've beaten it (because it's about reject cars).

P.S.: Sorry I used the formularejects uploader for this, but since I'm not using any other imagehoster at the moment, I thought I could make a rare exception. (And it's rejects-related somehow...)

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 09 Apr 2014, 17:00

Turbogirl wrote:Say, dinizintheoven, is it also possible to edit the phrase "You're winner" into the game? Somehow I was expecting it so say that line after I've beaten it (because it's about reject cars).

Doesn't look like it - what I found is I could edit the pictures, the title and the background/text colours, but nothing else. And as the game creator is very basic, it can't be edited once it's finished, hence the "5" in the URL - I had previous attempts that weren't exactly spectacular, i.e. I hit the enter key at the wrong time (which finalises the game), or I used pictures that were too large. Worse still, the largest pictures are for the most modern cars which make up the 2 and 4 tiles, so the game ran at the pace of a misfiring Life driven by Chris Moyles. Eventually I decided to download all the pictures, hack them into squares, host them on my own server, and finally came the result!

The original Formula 1 Edition used the logos of the current teams in the order they finished last year, so Caterham are the 2 tile, Marussia are 4, Williams are 8, and so on. I decided not to go on with a game that handed victory on a plate to Red Bull when our favourite rejects were so much more deserving.

dinizintheoven · Post by **dinizintheoven** » 09 Apr 2014, 17:26

What's this? An extra game featuring the same pictures?

http://games.usvsth3m.com/giftris/formula-one-rejects-edition-5/

I managed 27 lines on the first attempt - the controls aren't particularly responsive, but I find it does help to know which car corresponds to which Tetris piece. Seeing as there are only seven, there will be no Andrea Moda, Life, Coloni or AGS in this game, but the rest are all present and correct. And the pictures rotate with the piece, so you can turn a Forti on its side the way Luca Badoer did, or make a startling impression of Gutiérrez Gutiérrez and turn it right over.

Turbogirl · Post by **Turbogirl** » 10 Apr 2014, 11:03

dinizintheoven wrote:What's this? An extra game featuring the same pictures?

http://games.usvsth3m.com/giftris/formula-one-rejects-edition-5/

I managed 27 lines on the first attempt - the controls aren't particularly responsive, but I find it does help to know which car corresponds to which Tetris piece. Seeing as there are only seven, there will be no Andrea Moda, Life, Coloni or AGS in this game, but the rest are all present and correct. And the pictures rotate with the piece, so you can turn a Forti on its side the way Luca Badoer did, or make a startling impression of Gutiérrez Gutiérrez and turn it right over.

Ah, good old Tetris. Still fun and addicting after all these years!

Managed 55 lines twice before I had to force myself to go to sleep at 3 in the morning. What I like best about this version (besides the reject cars) is the fact, that the pieces keep dropping at a constant pace, while in the original Tetris they dropped faster the more you advanced in the game. Without this, you can go straight for highscores. I like that!

UncreativeUsername37 · Post by **UncreativeUsername37** » 10 Apr 2014, 16:50

Turbogirl wrote:What I like best about this version (besides the reject cars) is the fact, that the pieces keep dropping at a constant pace, while in the original Tetris they dropped faster the more you advanced in the game. Without this, you can go straight for highscores. I like that!

I usually get around 100 lines in normal Tetris, but I'm lucky to get forty here....

Turbogirl · Post by **Turbogirl** » 10 Apr 2014, 20:05

Okay, I got as far as 86 lines today.

Post by **Ataxia** » 10 Apr 2014, 20:14

Good lord, you people are getting through more lines than Hunter S. Thompson on a coke binge.

eytl · Post by **eytl** » 11 Apr 2014, 14:08

All I can say is that I am about as good as a W12 engine when it comes to playing these games.

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 11 Apr 2014, 17:01

If i could do it, so could anyone!
Finished the thing with a score of 22232
I still don't understand the 'pattern recognition' thing, but this shows that with a little bit of luck, you can finish the game without that. Being focussed, however, is important.

but i'm kind of crappy with the tetris game

W12 · Post by **W12** » 11 Apr 2014, 18:15

I managed to complete it

Turbogirl · Post by **Turbogirl** » 11 Apr 2014, 22:12

Ataxia wrote:Good lord, you people are getting through more lines than Hunter S. Thompson on a coke binge.

Indeed we are, and it's just as addicting! My current F1 Rejects Tetris score is 184 lines. I think I'm playing this game WAY too much.

Post by **tommykl** » 16 Apr 2014, 08:35

Made it to 8936!

EDIT: and now 12 140

Nessafox · Post by **Nessafox** » 16 Apr 2014, 19:56

I still find it strange that i'm top in the rankings for something i'm not even good at.

Post by **Londoner** » 17 Apr 2014, 22:56

Improved to 10692, after many, many attempts...

Shizuka · Post by **Shizuka** » 18 Apr 2014, 07:12

Improved to a 21200, despite not cornering the big ones.