How to consistently win the tower

[bigbadaboom]

I see people having a lot of trouble with the tower so here’s some advice:

1) For every level, assume the your next card will be a pig and calculate your cost (20+100+200 etc)

2) Compare the cost (including the next pig!) to what you currently have

3) If what you already have is worth the cost you calculated, continue. If not, exit immediately.

Example: You currently have 50 gems, 80 feathers, 10 pearls and two spell cards. You already spent 20 gems so your cost for continuing is 120 gems. You’ll get 50 gems back so your ask yourself whether 80 feathers, 10 pearls and two spell cards are worth 70 gems to you.

If you follow this strategy, you will never make a loss. Sometimes you will win very little, sometimes you will win a lot, but you will keep winning.

You might think this strategy won’t get you very far, but I made it past level 30 several times and my best is lvl 57. You won’t make it to lvl 90, but you’ll get tons of stuff for free.

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[Epic Buttstomp]

If we all think like that, casino will be closed down in no time.

I have never spent more than 20 gems in the Tower. The luckiest I got was into the mid-teens before I chickened out. For that particular time I got near 100 gems in earnings among few other relatively useless things like spells. Will I spend the 20 + 100 gems to continue? Only if my gain in that game is 120+ gems, essentially I break even.

There is no real pattern to it. If you think the pig cannot be in the same spot more than 2 times, that is a matter of luck. If you think there is a pattern and decide to figure that out, go try your luck with real lottery tickets where you can at least win some real $$.

Even if Rovio make the Tower available every hour, my tactics will probably be spending no gems unless I have earned that in the Tower and willing to give up right after to collect the prizes.

[bigbadaboom]

If we all think like that, casino will be closed down in no time.

Yes, but 99% of the player base wont go to a forum to read up on strategy. :)

There is no real pattern to it. If you think the pig cannot be in the same spot more than 2 times,

I don’t think Rovio is doing anything with pig placement outside the obvious random(4). Randomise alone is enough to play a lot of tricks with the human mind. Our brains are hardwired to look for patterns, even when there are none, like in a random number sequence.

What I do is picking the same card in every round in every game. Its not gonna be better (or worse) than any other card picking strategy, but its saving me some time.

[cognitive]

The biggest downers in ToF:

1. pig immediately after first round. OK, it’s got a probability of .75 (no pig in first round) * 0.25 (pig in second round) so it should be .1875, or one in five. In my case it’s pretty consistent one in two. For extra bonus, pig in third round, which is .75 * .75 * .25 = .14 or 14%. Pretty common.

2. This is more sinister. You make it thru the first pig and 20 gems, have accumulated the dregs of rewards (a duck, whoa) and maybe 50 gems, at level 10-15. Then you hit a pig for 100. Thinking you have earned enough you cough up 100 more, pick one from three, then next round, another pig.

Interestingly, the probability of going the first six rounds without hitting a pig is .18, about the same as that of hitting a pig in the second round (per #1 above). Is anyone here encountering those two outcomes at the same rate?

(Assumption: you can hit a pig in the first round. I think that’s not the case but I put it as such for consistency).

[kelshe]

@cognitive

I have got the pig 3 times on the first floor. It is very possible irrespective of laws of probability.

[dpage]

@cognitive

Yes you can get a pig in the first round. However this happens way less frequently than one in four on my machine. I think the 1st floor pig probability was tweaked for obvious reasons.

For your second case I’d probably pay the 100, open the other card, and leave. Paying 70 gems for whatever accumulated to level 10-15 isn’t too much of a bad deal, and is definitely a wiser choice than risking revealing the 3rd pig which would cost 200 more.

[KayBird]

Observations:
1. Many times now, I have hit the first pig before the fifth floor/level.
2. A few times now, I have hit two pigs before the fifth floor/level. I hate that.

At any given time, I rarely have more than a few hundred gems. I used to have more, when I was willing to spend money to buy gems, but I am no longer willing to do that. I am now perfectly happy to progress through the game as slow as I need to in order to avoid spending real money to purchase gems. As a result, I am almost never willing to spend the 100 gems when I hit the second pig in the Tower. 20 gems is okay for that first pig, but I usually won’t spend 100 more for that second pig. If I hit a second pig before the fifth floor/level, I usually hit the “Give Up” button and wait until the next day. If I make it to the fifth floor without getting a second pig, I usually stop after that being happy to get the 10 black pearls and leave the tower. My winnings in the Tower are often very, very modest, but I just am not willing to spend the 100 gems to get past that second pig.

[kelshe]

@kaybird

Completely agree.