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#1 2009-02-10 15:11:43
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In Order
Try this new game: In Order
It gets diabolically hard!
Let me know how you get on with each "level" What was your best time), and any suggestions please.
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#2 2009-02-10 19:06:16
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Re: In Order
Nice. ^_^
Once you get into the 0.01s, you can't blink. 
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#3 2009-02-10 23:21:43
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Re: In Order
Didnt you call it In Sequence previously? 
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#4 2009-02-11 02:56:36
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Re: In Order
My best time so far is 0.011s.
It's really amazing that the eye can process an image in that amount of time.
Although near the end it did start playing tricks on me, turning 3s into 5s for example.
I think this game would be better with a lives system, rather than the second timer it has now.
Theoretically, someone with ridiculously good eyes could get the 'exposure time' down to maybe 0.006s but then the other timer would run out.
I think it'd be more fun if the game always kept going until it went past your limit.
Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#5 2009-02-11 08:25:57
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Re: In Order
Jane: Yes! But I got to thinking that "sequence" implies arithmetic or geometric progression, so "In Order" was better.
Mathsy: There may also be an "after-image" effect. I was thinking of briefly flashing a white on black to see if that changes things.
So how would we decide the end? On the first mistake? or 3 lives?
Also: has anyone tried the larger groups? 7 Numbers, 9?
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#6 2009-02-11 08:31:58
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Re: In Order
Jane: Yes! But I got to thinking that "sequence" implies arithmetic or geometric progression, so "In Order" was better.
Good thinking. 
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#7 2009-02-11 09:04:11
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Re: In Order
Ending it on one mistake would probably be too frustrating, considering every game starts with the long intervals that aren't challenging.
I think three would be a good number. That's the amount I tend to get wrong the way it currently is, so 3 lives would be most similar to the current system (assuming I'm about average 
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Why did the vector cross the road?
It wanted to be normal.
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#8 2009-02-17 11:31:03
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It's pretty fun!
This is actually an exercise on Brain Age (It's a mind training game.) It says doing this helps the prefrontal cortex.
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#9 2009-02-18 15:43:11
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Re: In Order
Is it? Does it? How nice.
Anyway ... I have re-done it with "lives" ... I gave 5 lives just to be generous. Does it work well?
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