An Old Man Digs For Gold – Insights From Digging Out

When I was in college, I came across a small game – Old Man Digging for Gold. It was very classic and simple. I played it for a while and really liked it. Recently, when I was bored, I picked it up and played it for a while, but I gained some extraordinary insights and even took notes in the memo on my phone. I showed it to a friend and she said: "You are so perverted!" It's so brain-intensive to play a game, haha. This is probably the kind of state that the teacher said before, "Looking at mountains is not mountains, looking at water is not water".

Many people should have played this game. For those who haven’t, let me show you what it looks like.

The design of the game: An old miner uses a tool to dig gold. The operation is simple. Use the arrow keys to lower the hook to grab items, and move the hook up to retrieve them. Each type of item represents a different score value.

Game goal: Earn more points to complete the level and enter the next level.

Auxiliary tools: After each level, a salesman will appear to sell various tools to miners. You can purchase cost-effective tools based on your own situation and the value of the tools to earn more points in the next level.

Okay, the following is the content directly pasted from Youdao Cloud Notes. The rules of the game that you need to know before playing.

1. Target score for each level

2. How to play: place hooks and throw explosives

3. Obtain value: big and small gold, big and small stones, question mark bags, pigs, diamonds, diamond pigs, dynamite, skulls,

4. Make investment: dynamite (stop loss), San Miguel water (increase efficiency), clover (luck investment), stone collection (luck investment), high-quality diamonds (icing on the cake investment)

The first level: 650 gold stone question mark

Second level: 1195 stone gold question mark diamond

Level 3: 2010 Diamond hidden in stone, direction selection

Primary stage: static scenarios, accuracy, priority identification ability, problem solving (direction selection, return on investment)

Level 4: 3095 appears to hinder the movement of pigs

Level 5: 4450 moving pig obstacles, multiple diamonds scattered

Level 6: Multiple 6075 diamond pigs, small gold

Intermediate stage: dynamic scenarios, basic abilities + dynamic management (dealing with obstacles + capturing opportunities)

Level 7: 7970 Dynamite Mobile Pig Big Gold

Level 8: 10135 Big Stone Explosive Diamond Big Gold

Level 9: 12570 Diamond Pig and Pig Dynamite

Advanced stage: basic abilities + dynamic management + crisis handling abilities (avoid danger + exploit crises)

Games are difficult and life has its ups and downs, and each level requires a lot of effort. However, the fun of easy repetition is never as strong as the excitement brought by new challenges, so we are all moving forward, one level after another. Go down~~

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