The game, in that way, is especially conducive to sparking creativity, the same way a shower might, supplying a winning combination of relaxation, distraction, and dopamine. You start to find yourself plotting several moves ahead in order to get a lower score. The more you become obsessed with Tiles, though, the more intense its chess-like qualities become. After further exploration, I began to see the patterns, piecing together - albeit rather clumsily - what the game wanted me to do with the mess it had provided. After some unstrategic clicking around the five-by-six board, I noticed I'd start to rack up a "current combo," while other times I'd be informed I'd done something wrong by a stern, sans-serif "no match" and my combo being reset to zero. In my excitement to play after seeing rave reviews on Twitter, I completely (and accidentally) blew past the tab that explained the rules. The Times' television critic and Tiles proselytizer Margaret Lyons reports that the lowest achievable combo is theoretically 15, although that would require every tile to be an exact match - unlikely, since the pattern shuffles are randomized.Īt risk of saying too much, though, let me add that Tiles is best enjoyed by embracing its learning curve. On the surface, Tiles is a simple matching game in which you try to get the shortest "combo" possible while still achieving a "perfect game," which requires never breaking a matching streak.
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(Although Tiles doesn't have a stand-alone app, it can easily be played in a browser window on a computer or phone, and it's free even if you aren't a subscriber.) Still, the launch is noteworthy in part because it is the Times' first original game that doesn't involve words. Unless you happen to frequent The New York Times' crossword puzzle page, you might have missed the rollout of Tiles earlier this week. (Screenshot of Tiles | The New York Times)
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