Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-37553158-20190316153333/@comment-86.53.112.50-20190507104031

Thanks that was the sort of thing I was looking for although can you elaborate please? When you say one row up and one down are these matches of the same colour or different colours or does it not matter?

The point, for the benefit of everyone else, is that by describing it as "basic mathematical algorithms" Heather has basically confirmed, as if confirmation was needed, that TB isn't random but that there is a system undelying the puzzle. And, sadly, some of us don't understand algorithms.

Treasure  Box does make reference to luck but I imagine this is because, since it is not entirely possible to know what each move is going to do, when you are faced with a selection of possible moves it is possible to make moves that will get you closer to victory or moves that can lead you away. Unlucky is clicking a series of moves that continually takes you away from victory. If you understand the puzzle choosing 'right' moves should be more than luck because you should be able to predict future relationships but conversely there shouldn't be any reason for you to be misled into making a series of wrong moves. Thus it's just unlucky. I often feel I've made a wrong move after I've made it but unfortunately i never know why.

By comparison Haunted Lights is just a pain in the *r#!. I'm sure there's a strategy of sorts to HL too but primarily Haunted Lights is a race and if you don't move quickly enough you're done.

Basically Haunted Lights is just trying to find and eliminate as many colours as possible as quickly as possible and hoping the colour combinations you need will fall together in the time frame. As the difficulty increases the liklihood of this occurring falls so you continue to need to pick up the pace. The is the main challenge in Haunted Lights.

To be honest though I make a hash of all challeges in Seeker's Notes. My brain simply can't handle all the information required at once.