When I hear people complain about not getting tiles, it always makes me think back to when I first started playing and thought, “why can’t they just give you seven tiles of each color randomly placed?”
Looking back at that now I’m so glad that is not the case, so let me tell you why…
When I think of a bad board l, the amount of tiles I get of each color I use doesn’t even cross my mind anymore. After watching a friend’s war attack today, I realized what I believe is a bad board and wondered how many people see it the way I do.
I won’t even call it a bad board, instead I view them more as obstacles that can affect your attack in a way that can range from being very minor to very severe. I believe there to be three obstacles in which they have nothing to do with the amount of tiles received regarding the hero colors you have selected to use and I’ve even named them.
My Obstacles:
- Stalemate Board
- Isolation Board
- Pixelated board
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Now let me explain what I mean.
STALEMATE BOARD:
This is an obstacle that many of you have identified because it’s really obvious and annoying. A stalemate board is a board that gives you three moves or less and becomes increasingly annoying at two moves and most of all at one move available. This is for the simple fact that you don’t have options and the game decides what you do instead of you dictating the flow of the attack. Either way it’s a pain and nobody enjoys a lack of options and be careful because if you’re not paying attention you may create the obstacles of a stalemate board yourself!
ISOLATION BOARD:
This obstacle is one that definitely increases difficulty and can even cause a stalemate board because of it. Isolation board refers to multiple tiles that are isolated in a manner in which no tile surrounding it is of the same color.
Isolation boards which refer to the isolated tiles become especially problematic because they block the movement of tiles and can extremely impact your attack in a negative way. These tiles are a big reason why boards may only be playable on one side and not the other side. Or they prevent you from making a match because of the way these tiles are positioned. Basically these tiles just get in your way and it’s frustrating. The one exception to an isolated tile that excludes it from being considered an isolated tile is if that tile is able to be moved in order to make a match.
Tiles outlined in white are isolated tiles in which the level of difficulty these tiles present increases as the amount of these tiles increases as well. The tiles outlined in yellow do not qualify because they are both able to be moved and used to create a match. This obstacle is another obstacle that you can create for yourself and in some cases it’s necessary and beneficial and in other cases it’s extremely harmful. This obstacle also can also increase the amount of obstacles you have to deal with because it can cause a stalemate board to occur in addition to the challenge this obstacle presents.
In beginning I mentioned how I used to wish that a Starting board would consist of 7 tiles in each color randomly distributed. Well that was until I noticed this next obstaclebe I call the…
PIXELATED BOARD:
Because these boards tend to remind me of a TV that isn’t hooked up to any channels and just has that obnoxious noise with the different colored pixels all over the place. Well in case you don’t know what I’m talking about…
↓ ↓ ↓ THIS IS WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT ↓ ↓ ↓
This obstacle is defined as when you have tiles of every color in every quadrant or just very spread out and all over the place. This is what happens in the result from having tiles of every color and why a bad board is a blessing.
Like most things in life, there’s a positive and a negative or a light and a dark to every aspect. Well this game is no different, because you could never get a great board If a color or two didn’t show up in time to time. Because in order for those extra tiles to show up another color has to lose tiles in order to make that happen.
Every board is made up through the randomizing of 35 tiles in which the likelihood or probability of how many tiles of each color show up is 7. The closer all five tile colors are to having seven tiles each at the same time collectively, presents a huge problem.
By now you may have noticed the relationship between these three obstacles and the manner in which they can greatly impact you and your attack negatively. Pixelated boards tend to have isolated tiles. Isolated tiles tend to cause stalemates.
Now ask yourself what is the likelihood of these three obstacles happening If one color is just absent or two even? It’s pretty hard to have isolated tiles with primarily only three colors. It’s pretty hard Have a stalemate with primarily only three colors present. It’s also pretty hard to get a great board without the one or two colors not showing up.
Hopefully by now you’re starting to see the full picture and why a bad board is a blessing. If you were given a board of seven tiles of each color and you started every attack that way, The likelihood of disaster in a potential nightmare is extremely high and it’s because of those bad boards we get with no tiles that we are even capable of anything positive. When you get a bad board with no tiles at least you can still move things around in position and creates and strategically have options even if you got zero tiles.
I would rather have zero tiles and be able to move, then to be limited without choice while looking at the tiles I need, but can’t have. People like to use the term “unwinnable” frequently and often in regards to the boards they face which usually translates to them not getting tiles that match the heroes selected. Well If you hadn’t noticed yet, everything I have shown you so far is actually the same starting board over and over again. Yes, That means that all three obstacles are present on the same board at the very beginning at the same time.
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May introduce you to what I call the DEATH BOARD!
The death board is a combination of all three primary obstacles at the same time. Because the obstacles are all intertwined and related, a death board while not likely is still very possible and capable of happening. I would estimate that this board happens 2% to 3% of the time and is extremely challenging to win, but never impossible.
What makes this increasingly more likely to happen is all five colors representing the probability of seven evenly on one board. This board I showed you is two tiles away from being a perfect probability board of 7P 7Y 7B 7G 7R. The closer a starting board is to a probability board I just laid out for you, a death board becomes increasingly more likely to happen.
The board I showed you is made up of 7P 8Y 8B 5G 7R tiles and as I said is only two tiles away from a probability board. Now you might understand why I believe that we don’t get the tiles we want and call it a bad board, we would be wrong and mistaken.
If it wasn’t for tiles not showing up and not representing the probability, we would be constantly screwed and because while the occurrence in which tiles that do not match the colors of the heroes selected can be frustrating, I truly believe it could be a lot worse. It’s simply a matter of perspective and the understanding that with out the bad things there would be no good. I hope that in understanding that what we consider bad is the foundation for everything good that happens to us in this game, that we don’t get discouraged when the colors we selected don’t show up, but embrace the challenge that offers with gratitude because we understand that it could have been so much worse.
How you each choose to perceive things is entirely up to each and every one of you. I do however look forward to hearing what feedback you all may have regarding this post and If you actually read all that, thanks for hanging in there with me! 
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