Last Monday I played Lucky Numbers on stream with it’s solo mode. It takes a game that’s a Rack-o feeling game about getting numbers in descending order in both rows and columns and turns it into a puzzle. Is this a good solo mode? Does Lucky Numbers even need a solo mode?

Lucky Numbers Solo Mode

Let me start out by saying, this isn’t a bad solo mode. But you can tell as I was playing it, I don’t find it great. Mainly because it’s very different from the actual game. And because the puzzles felt like they were lacking. It gives you a target number of moves to do it in, and I think at least once I found a faster way to do it than the game said. So the challenge isn’t there.

I compare this to something like the Relics of Rajavihara which gives you a puzzle each game to figure out. That one the puzzles were really interesting and felt like a challenge. How the game changed up what the blocks did, that felt unique and the game grew with you. In Lucky Numbers as the puzzles became harder the scale of difficulty moved up extremely slowly. So slowly that I don’t know you need anything with fewer than four moves.

That said, I am confident that for some people this is going to be great. And in fact, it would be even better of they had an app that showed you a puzzle to set-up each day. It is going to be a nice like sudoku like thing to get people’s brains working in the morning. That is not what it was for me, though. They were just pretty easy puzzles to track to a solution and it started to get repetitive for myself.

Upcoming Streams

Join me on Monday and Wednesday’s for streams. Right now on Wednesday I stream my Top 100 Games (of all time) 2024 Edition. So come check that out and see what games make the list year. Monday is a wild card day. I plan to play a variety of games that are solo with a mix of some video games like Balatro as well.

Then on Friday is a special stream as well. My wife and I stream Baldur’s Gate 3. Find out what adventures our group is getting up to. We are still early in the game.

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