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Published: January 25, 2009
Here goes with my first review, as Nige’s better half, he suggested I tried this game, and I’m sure much to his annoyance I love it. As an iphone games network widow it means that while he’s making updates to the site or recording his latest views I can borrow his phone and spend hours trying to better my last score.
This is exactly the type of game that appeals to me, I can just pick it up, get the little grey cells working and know, that for once, I will beat Nige at a game especially when it comes to mental arithmetic!
The objective of each round is to clear the board and open the casino vault to gain points and move on the next round. This is achieved by removing chips from the each vault in groups of 11 until the door is finally uncovered. A wild chip and rotating chips help clear the board.
This game is brought to the iphone by Megatouch, who have spent the last 30 years developing games for touch screen technology seen in pubs and bars across the world. It translates really well and its intuitive game play proves they know their stuff.
So how does it play… Creating a combination of chips to add up to eleven is simple and easy is to use, got me hooked right away. With the added pressure of an alarm when your mind goes blank and can’t remember if 8+3 is 11. The trick is also not to rely on the extra chips or the wild chip in the first round as you run out of both to quickly and know going into the next round its almost impossible to reach 175,000 points and therefore the bonus round. There’s no titling, shaking, just tapping and it delivers quick addictive fun. I personally would like to have seen more options, with the ability take the points and keep going in a marathon style game. Or, changing the total you’re working towards ie lucky 12 or 14. The total scores are also only local currently and would be great to see an online score board.
Presentation & Graphics:
Simply clean graphics with clear functionality on button behaviour and interaction.
Sounds:
The alarm sound when time is running out, adds to the mounting pressure of trying to clear the board. Nice touch.
Gameplay:
Rather than a cup of coffee, why not pick up Lucky 11’s and give your brain a workout. Good caffeine free fun.
Gamelife:
A three minute of mental workout. (or hours in my case)
Final rating:
So whilst Nige is recording the next podcast with the boys, for your entertainment you can be certain I’ll be enjoying a not so quick game of Lucky 11’s and making sure I’m top of the leaderboard in our house!
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11 Comments on "Lucky 11s review"
sam on Mon, 26th Jan 2009 2:29 am
good game
Jay on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 12:45 am
nice review Lisa
Alex on Tue, 27th Jan 2009 12:57 am
it’s okay. not really challenging. cracked the vault open first time through. they need to change the number from 11 to something else every few seconds to make it harder
susan on Sun, 1st Mar 2009 9:17 pm
does anyone know how to get to 400,000 points? the highest i got is.. 388,450…
Sinned on Sun, 12th Jul 2009 12:22 am
its easy. my highest score is 452,200 right now. i goal is to 500k
Beckers on Tue, 11th Aug 2009 12:08 am
How at people getting 350,000+ points? What am I missing? Can someone give me a heads up!
mike on Thu, 17th Sep 2009 10:16 pm
Is there a difference in points accrued if I use 2 chips to get 11, or more than 2? Sometimes i get 70k on the first round, and sometimes i get 100K, but i have no clue what i did differently!!
Lisa on Thu, 17th Sep 2009 10:57 pm
Yes, it does seem a bit random. but using more chips and not using the wild card possibly gives you a higher overall score.
John on Sat, 7th Nov 2009 10:23 am
The games broke. Heres why: So if you have played enough you know that the points ur chips are worth goes up by 100 as long as you dont use the “next chip” button or whatever. Once you have to hit the next chip button it starts back at 0. Now the problem is this carries over to the next game for some reason. Example: Say i play and do crappy on round 1 and dont even get the bonus. Then Round 2 isnt bad at all and i hit a nice little streak to end the game but still not reaching the 175k to advance to the bonus round. Well even though that game is completly over, that streak i had in round 2 to end the game will start right back where it left off in round 1 of my new game. SOOOO if u wanna get a legit highscore, be sure ur starting out with no streak still goin from a past game you lost
its easy to overlook and not realize. im prity sure its not possible to get over 400k without expliting this glitch. My best is 377k and i have played a long time….
Duong Tam on Thu, 31st Dec 2009 5:07 pm
My top score is 1,577,100, there is the trick to get more bonus point
Shuffler on Thu, 21st Jan 2010 9:48 am
I get over 375K all the time. What is the trick, Duong Tam. What should I do. what is the strategy?