@bchandler2  
I’m currently keeping track of how often a “random” “bug” occurs in Infinite Discord Mode, where the game “glitches” so that the condition occurs where the Mane Six superpowers are unavailable and the menu button is greyed out– which is only supposed to happen after you successfully complete a level, so that you can’t keep breaking blocks while it does its Level Complete! animation– but it occurs at the start of the level, so you’re unable to use the superpowers while playing the level normally. Since I noticed it was doing this and started keeping track, this has occurred in 167 out of 925 levels, which is roughly 18%, not counting those levels where the superpowers are specifically locked out with little padlocks as part of the regular game. In a game with as much quantifiable cheating as this, I don’t believe for a moment that nearly 1 in 5 is an accident, especially since I have never observed the condition to occur in any level of a regular non-Discord Mode game.
 
There’s one level– where there are many pink and grey gift boxes in the center which must be opened by breaking blocks of the same color next to them– which is functionally a Game Over level in Infinite Discord Mode, because literally every single time it appears it has the “no superpowers” condition, and there are so few regular blocks that they all get turned into storm clouds before you can open them otherwise. In almost thirty attempts, I’ve only managed to beat it once– with 0 moves left– and that was honestly due to a frankly ridiculous run of luck on drop blocks.

@TexasUberAlles  
I’m honestly impressed at the amount of research you put into this and that you then summarized it here.

@Silent Wing  
It does it mostly by rigging percentages, so that things which are supposed to be random, aren’t. The most obvious way– and one you can check for yourself by keeping track– is with Lightning Jars. When you match 5 or 6 color blocks, they’re broken and the block you selected becomes a Lightning Jar, oriented either horizontally (to break an entire row when activated) or vertically (to break an entire column). If there are no objective blocks (which have to be broken to finish the level) on either axis, the ratio of horizontal to vertical Lightning Jars is roughly even– it’s effectively random which way one will point. It’s the same if there are objective blocks in both axes, both appear at roughly the same rate. If, however, there’s an objective block on one axis but not the other, the Lightning Jar direction is not random, in fact it’s not even close. I kept track of over 250 such occurrences, and the Lightning Jar pointed along the axis that didn’t have an objective block 80-84% of the time. That means that 4 out of 5 or 5 out of 6 times the game pointed the jar so that it wouldn’t help you; that’s not random, and that’s not fair.
 
If there are no matches to be made on a board, the game scrambles all of the color blocks, which will almost always result in a match being possible. That’s advantageous for the player, because now you have more opportunities to match; that means the game doesn’t want to scramble the board, and it pushes that back by dropping matching blocks when you make the last available match on the board. Again, at a roughly 4 out of 5 rate, if you make the last match on the board, the two blocks which drop to replace them will be matching in color; that way you have to burn several probably-useless moves before the board gets scrambled.
 
Past a certain level Discord appears, and after every third move he throws down three Chaos Bombs, which are supposed to target random blocks and change whatever block they hit into something else. If you keep track of it, though, those Chaos Bombs are far more likely to target matching blocks near an objective block, and on levels where he drops Storm Clouds– which have to be broken by a match next to them, and don’t move when blocks under them are broken– they are far more likely to hit blocks in the top three or four rows of the board, which stops new blocks from being able to drop down below them. After you beat all 143 levels you have the option to play in Infinite Discord Mode, where it gives you a different random (difficult) level every time until you run out of lives. There are several of levels which are literally unbeatable in Infinite Discord Mode without using Mane Six super powers– which the game will be happy to sell to you as a microtransaction, of course– because those levels originally came before Discord appeared, so they weren’t designed to be winnable when there are Storm Cloud blocks being dropped after every third move; very quickly, you don’t have any blocks left to match, and if you run out completely you automatically lose the level. I’ve only seen it happen one time, but if you run out of matches and it scrambles the board… and there still aren’t any matches, you also auto-lose.
 
Like I say, once you realize that it’s doing these things you can learn to anticipate them and it’s often possible to set yourself up to benefit from them anyway, which basically just adds another level of challenge to the game.

@TexasUberAlles  
>Game cheating to fuck you over.  
How does that work? It breaks it’s own rules?

@Silent Wing  
How fun is it?  
It’s pretty fun up until it starts cheating like a motherbucker, then it’s super frustrating. It gets a lot more fun again once you figure out how it’s cheating, because you can work around it somewhat if you can anticipate it.

@Silent Wing  
Yeah, trust me, this is nothing like Hunie Pop. I can’t play Hunie Pop without feeling like I’m being monitored by the FBI.
 
But, yeah, it’s a decent match 3 game. It’s also not really punishing to free players if you play carefully. It’s one of these kind of games I would throw $10 at just to support the devs for not making me feel obligated to buy stuff to complete the game.

@Silent Wing  
Nah, just kidding. I wish it was since dating the mane6 would be awesome, but it’s just a puzzle matching block game. The voice acting is pretty top notch given it’s a free game and the game follows the show’s seasons. :D It’s a treat to play.

@MaresFillies  
HuniePop? It’s raunchy and a pervert’s paradise?

NO CHILD CAN GET THROUGH THIS AGE BLOCKER!  
ITS DIABOLICAL!

@Silent Wing  
It’s like Hunie Pop. XD You match blocks and you go through levels.

@Nittany Discord  
What’s this game everyone’s talking about? I’ve not heard of it and I’m genuinely curious, at the very least. What does it play like? How fun is it?

@MaresFillies  
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@Nittany Discord  
Yessss! /) :)

33 and play this game. Better F2P so far than the Gameloft game.