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I scored 99 - not clear how the numbers that appear after a "pop" can be predicted, so there doesn't appear to be much strategy.

Even so, a fun few minutes. Did anyone beat 99?

Edit: OK, now I can see how the number changes work, and I scored 129. Anyone beat that?

Edit 2: Now 147 - I should stop this and get back to work.

Edit 3: Now 152 ...

Edit 4: OK, 178, now I'm stopping.

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297.

Probably no one is checking results here anymore, but I got 486. Wish I knew how many total turns it took!

Wow! I don't think I've ever got close to that.

When I was first toying with the concept, I wrote a C implementation and tried a depth-first-search AI to see what kinds of scores were possible. As I remember it, it would get 400+ scores on good runs. The best it got was over 4000, but that must have been with an extremely lucky sequence of numbers.

896 on my last one. Maybe the 4th game I played.

359, with 17 turns max

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