Random Tiles question

Marvel Puzzle Quest MPQ General Discussion
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It struck me while playing the Devil Dino PvP that I don’t think I have ever had a board ‘reset’ after a board shaking ability due to having no moves available.

Now maybe with larger board shakers like Hulk or Juggs, the fact that you collapse a board with stacked unmatched tiles leads to potential matches, but with Dino’s 6 tile dance, there should have been times when the only match on the board was exhausted. But it never happened.

I don’t think I’ve seen a board ‘reset’ after a large cascade either. I think I have only seen it after a simple match 3.

Have I just been unlucky in this regard, or is the tile insertion/ ability use algorithm actually biased to prevent board resets?

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I know I have seen the board reset after an ability destroys tiles.

3

With destroyed tiles yes, but I’ve never seen a whole board shuffle after a power rearranges part of the board either.

I did find it funny after Galactus killed us with his board smash that there’d sometimes be insta-matches with the new board.

4

Why? New tile drops yield matches all the time. He’s not shuffling the board, he’s destroying it.

5

I’ve used Steve several times to shuffle the board by throwing his red or blue in order to disrupt the only available match. So I think that is possible for the board to be shuffled after Dino’s purple (or any other power).

6

But that’s targetted, and can’t be fudged. I was looking more at whether ‘random’ effects were fully random or were set to avoid board resetting outcomes.

7

Fair enough. I hadn’t which is why I asked a broader audience. Thanks