User:Cwoo4792/enes100/poppit

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Assign Task1
Attempt to chunk poppit by playing it multiple times and finding the best wining strategies.

Compare actual work done to Task1
My Goal was to find wining strategies and I started by trying to pop the ones at the top to set up the lower ones to be popped. I found that when I took time to focus on setting up the balloons rather than just popping all the groups I saw, I would have more success in the outcome of balloons.

Week1 Narrative
I set out to find the wining strategies in poppit and I started this week by trying focus my popping at the top of the screen. I found that you really need to take a look at the big picture in order pop the right ones in the right order to end up with the least amount of balloons possible. However, even when I did this I was unable to pop all the balloons in any of the given games.

Week1 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

Assign Task2
Try a pop from the bottom half and move up strategy in Poppit.

Compare actual work done to Task2
My goal was to try some games with my focus on popping the bottom half balloons first. I was able to get some tests of that stratgey as well as a strategy of popping all the coupled balloons first.

Week2 Narrative
I set off to find out if a focus on popping the balloons from the bottom half of the screen would prove to be more successful than popping from the top. I was able to find out that my average scores were mildly better and that there would be less strands of un-popped balloons at the bottom. I also decided to see if popping all the coupled balloons first would help in my outcome. I found out that it only made things bad when you only pop the coupled balloons because it just messed up the big group pops giving me an average of about 33.5 balloons. However, when I did not limit myself to only popping them, but popping them to set up large pops, I was able to get an average of about 12.5 ballons.

Week2 Peer Review
Go to each team mates weekly summary wiki page. Read their activities and narrative. Then go the associated discussion page. Say something positive on this page. Try some constructive criticism. Add your name and 1sfoerster 13:32, 28 August 2011 (UTC) to create a time and date stamp. Create a new category if another team mate has already commented here.

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