Updating the game rules

[maxsu]

Hi, I was wondering how we determine the deck generation and tile placement rules from the game itself. Does it require that we decompile the APK? Has that work been documented anywhere?

[nneonneo]

I recall that they were derived simply through observation of the game state. I imagine a more robust method would be to reverse engineer the app; to my knowledge, this has not been attempted recently.

[maxsu]

Do you have any leads on where it might have been done before? I know nearly nothing about reversing a game, but I'm dying to know how the game places tiles during repeated moves in the same direction. It appears to reuse the same row until the player picks a new direction - I believe this is a new rule, since online implementations randomize the row on each move.

[nneonneo]

I don’t, but I’ve personally reversed a fair number of android apps. If the app is written entirely in Java it isn’t too hard to do. It’s a fun thing to get started in!

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[maxsu]

Thanks for the encouragement! If you'd like, I'll report my progress! Once I have some rules I might need some instruction on how to incorporate them into the the AI.