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Thank you for the link, fun game! Took me a while to win, but this is what immediately made my strategy work:

From http://retirementexperiment.blogspot.com/2009/03/flood-it-ga...:

> The approach I use is to play for penetration. I aim for the opposite corner. Rarely the obstacles have too much repetition. I would allow for this by requiring a wedge shape having a favorable ratio of base size to length.

Bonus, a paper on flood-it: https://arxiv.org/abs/1001.4420




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