Board Thread:Troubleshooting/@comment-27985772-20160315195409/@comment-30549602-20170221070117

71.57.230.151 wrote: A number of posts above have stated that it depends on the location and direction of the last two bulbs in a string with a superbulb when determining whether or not the blast will be horizontal or vertical. That appears to be incorrect. It is subtle, but the direction of the filament lighted up in the superbulb is the direction that the blast will take.

OK, NOW you have my attention! For some time, I have felt that while the principle of 'ending a row with bulbs beside or beneath causes the effect to move in the opposite direction' certainly holds true in SOME HL games, it seems to me not to hold true for every HL variant.

I have never noticed the filament thingy before. Give that person a 🐨 stamp!

Personally, I think you have to suck it and see how the first blast operates, then proceed accordingly, in hopes of directing the blast the way you want to. Sometimes that is not clear at all, esp if you are all in a lather of time pressure.

Now, instead of test pressing an already activated bulb before making my next move, (which I've been doing) I can look at the filament. That will save a few seconds. Gonna go try it out, but if this is true, then wow! Very helpful. 🌏🙃