March 19, 2004

Build a tower, fight Vikings, get egged on by small blond men with swords. An excellent little puzzle game that ranks alongside that damn helicopter game and good-quality heroin in addictiveness.
posted by Blaise Bailey Finnegan 20 years ago
  • Damn Vikings can see my tower but I can't see their's except at the beginning. Typical really. *sigh*
  • Aaaarrrrrgghhhhhhhh! Brilliant. Thankyou, Blaise. And curse you too.
  • This is good.
  • can't... get... past... level... 3! DAMN YOU!
  • Nor can I. Bastard Vikings.
  • I made it to level 6. Then lost badly.
  • cleared all 8 with a final score of 39208. strategy - divide value of the max block for that round by three. subdivide the tower into thirds(ish) and when a block comes up slot it into the third of the tower that it would go into (making a judegment within the third of your chances of drawing another block that would come before it or after it). match up consecutive numbers for bonuses. even if you have taken the randon block and don't think you can use it see if you can slot it in someplace on the tower to get a consecutive number bonus. but i dunno. i was a little confused by the presence of the vikings (since they never beat me). was i supposed to be watching what their starting tower looked like, which blocks they took, what positions they put them into? is that info helpful to me? are are both teams drawing from the same pool of blocks such that if they have a 10 block in their tower does that mean I won't get a 10 block? there is no treat at the end. it just tells you that you completed all eight levels and gives you your final score.
  • The block you remove from yours gets placed in the middle, and they can either choose to use that one, or one from the pool of unused blocks. Then once theyve made their move, you get to use either their removed block, or one from the pool, and so on. I was using a similar strategy to you, gspm, but obviously have yet to perfect it.
  • ahhh damn..... I have a paper to write today! Why are you doing this to me? Why???
  • Level 6, you are my Doom!
  • All eight levels done on the first try. Final score: 40,496. I tried to lose on the first level but I don't think it's possible.
  • If this game had a multiplayer option, I would lose all will to go outside.
  • I tried to lose on the first level but I don't think it's possible. I lost on the first level. I racked up about 8,000 points chaining up the blocks first though. They really are quite slow and stupid.
  • I think it's been Slashdotted/Farked/Monkeyfiltered. All I can find is a picture of Ahnold smoking a spliff, saying, "Ohhh yeah. The TRAFFIC is so damn HIGH..." Those crazy Krauts!
  • Nevermind.
  • You can download a payware Windows version that has cavemen, Egyptians, and monks, as well.
  • Oh no - The link doesn't work now! But I'm addicted - I have to build my tower. What am I going to do? Anyone know of an alternative host? I did manage to get two other friends on to it before it went though.
  • Its working for me at the moment, jb.
  • What? it's Nostalgia month or something?
  • Didn't you get the memo, Zemat? We're only comment on old threads. Some kind of protest, or something. FREE ARTHUR LEE!
  • It was just me, panicking. It's back now, and now I am okay. (Block tower is better than valium)
  • It's gone again - fortunately, I had gotten over the addiction (crack cocaine was a good replacement).
  • No - was wrong. Just changed URLs. Tower Blaster And now this is my own personal necro-thread.