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TwoDots Level 139 Tips and Strategy

When you first get into level 139 of TwoDots, you’ll think finishing the level off will be incredibly easy: Clear dots, no special obstacles, and after a few moves, you’ll be making a square every time.

Unfortunately, you have to clear so many dots that you have to choose wisely once you get to making squares.

  • Get to your first square as efficiently as possible. Every move counts.
  • Your first squares will probably require any major decisions… it’s better to clear a square than almost anything less than a square.
  • After you make your first square or two, conserve clear dots for when you need them.
  • Favor completing squares that clear the most dots of a color.
  • Favor completing squares that clear dots that you still need to clear if an equal number of dots is cleared by either.
  • Favor completing squares that require the least clear dots if two options clear an equal number of dots that you need otherwise.

I also like to save a square of clear dots for near the end when I have almost all of my dot quota met.

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You Might be an Engineer if…

  • you have half-broken objects in your house that you refuse to throw away with the hope that you can someday fix them.
  • you spend time looking at house hold products trying to devise a method for improvement.
  • you actually buy technical books.
  • you think that your way is the best way to do everything and constantly challenge ideas.
  • you solder tools together to form new objects
  • you constantly inform people that the ships in Star Wars should all be silent in space. (Stu)
  • …and pick out other faults in movies regarding machines. (Stu)
  • you tell people that time travel is impossible. (Stu)
  • …minutes later you think of how you would build a time machine. (Stu)
  • you know “natural frequency” has nothing to do with bowel movements. (Stu)
  • you get angry when people won’t let you fix things they’ve broken. (Stu)
  • you tried to build Transformer toys out of lego as a kid. (Stu)
  • …and tried to invent various lego contraptions in the hope of making money. (Stu)
  • you beg everyone you know to call you “Scotty.” (Caitlin H.)
  • you can do vector calculus in your head, but you forgot how to do long division. (Psycho Dragon, christop@umr.edu)
  • you consider a databook “good reading” when you’re on the toilet. (Stu Bell)
  • the first thing you do with anything new is take it apart to see how it works. (Stu Bell)
  • the last time you moved, you needed two dumpsters to haul off the scrap electrical parts from your work room.  (Stu Bell)
  • you not only know what a left-handed constabulator is, but you designed one once, for fun.  (Stu Bell) Okay, okay… I’m more of a computer geek than an engineer…
  • you paid more for math and science books during college than most people pay for tuition.
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You Might be a College Student if…

  • Your grocery list is always the same-Boxed macaroni & cheese,Twinkies and pop.
  • Your refrigerator is 3 feet tall and has more beer than food in it.
  • Stolen road signs and blacklight posters replace pictures.
  • You paid $500 for your car, $5,000 for your car stereo.
  • You owe the beer distributor more than you owe for books and other student loans.
  • You use the “healing powers” excuse everytime you start a petition to legalize marijuana.
  • The cops come to your door on a daily basis telling you to keep the noise down.
  • You get up at 6P.M.,go to bed at 6A.M.
  • Your cat eats leftover pizza instead of Science diet,meow mix,etc.
  • Your source for information is MTV news.
  • You’ve ever shoplifted from Goodwill.
  • You’ve ever blown a whole week’s pay on beer.
  • You can’t afford to shop at Abercrombie And Fitch but you do anyway.
  • You know exactly what time Taco Bell opens and closes.
  • The last time you cleaned your apartment is when you moved in.
  • Any of your furniture is inflatable.
  • You think Tommy Hilfiger should be president
  • Your calender is marked with every bar’s happy hour.
  • You don’t need a stove because you have a microwave.
  • You have tickets to a Phish concert the weekend you go home.You of course choose the concert.
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You Might be a New Jersey Driver if…

  • Turn signals will give away your next move. A real New Jersey driver never uses them.
  • Under no circumstances should you leave a safe distance between you and the car in front of you,or the space will be filled in by somebody else putting you in an even more dangerous situation.
  • Crossing two or more lanes in a single lane-change is considered going with the flow.
  • The faster you drive through a red light, the smaller the chance you have of getting hit.
  • Never, ever come to a complete stop at a stop sign. No one expects it and it will inevitably result in you being rear ended. If you want your insurance company to pay for a new rear bumper, come to a complete stop at all stop signs.
  • A right lane construction closure is just a game to see how many people can cut in line by passing you on the right as you sit in the left lane waiting for the same jerks to squeeze their way back in before hitting the orange construction barrels.
  • Never get in the way of an older car that needs extensive bodywork. New Jersey is a no-fault insurance state and the other guy doesn’t have anything to lose.
  • Braking is to be done as hard and late as possible to ensure that your ABS kicks in, giving a nice, relaxing foot massage as the brake pedal pulsates. For those of you without ABS, it’s a chance to stretch your legs.
  • Never pass on the left when you can pass on the right. It’s a good way to scare people entering the highway.
  • Speed limits are arbitrary figures, given only as suggestions and are apparently not enforceable in New Jersey during rush hour.
  • Just because you’re in the left lane and have no room to speed up or move over doesn’t mean that a New Jersey driver flashing his high beams behind you doesn’t think he can go faster in your spot.
  • Please remember that there is no such thing as a shortcut during rush-hour traffic in New Jersey.
  • Always slow down and rubberneck when you see an accident or even someone changing a tire.
  • Learn to swerve abruptly. New Jersey is the home of high-speed slalom driving thanks to the State Highway Department, which puts potholes in key locations to test drivers’ reflexes and keep them on their toes.
  • It is traditional in New Jersey to honk your horn at cars that don’t move the instant the light changes.
  • Never take a green light at face value. Always look right and left before proceeding.
  • Remember that the goal of every New Jersey driver is to get there first,by whatever means necessary.
  • Real New Jersey women drivers can put on pantyhose and apply eye makeup at seventy-five miles per hour in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
  • Real New Jersey men drivers can remove their girlfriend’s panties and bra at seventy-five miles per hour or in bumper-to-bumper traffic.
  • In the New Jersey area ‘flipping someone the bird’ is considered a polite New Jersey salute. This gesture should always be returned.
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You Might be from Iowa if..

  • you are from a town that has nearly as many churches and bars as houses.
  • you bought a case of beer in one of those little towns when you were 16.
  • you live in a beautiful old house with transparent plastic sheeting over the stom windows.
  • Your idea of a traffic jam is ten cars waiting to pass a tractor on the highway.
  • “Vacation” means driving through the Amanas, going to Adventureland or Okoboji.
  • You’ve seen all the biggest bands ten years after they were popular.
  • Snow tires are standard on your car.
  • You “go into town”
  • You have no concept of public transportation.
  • The only reason you go to Missouri is for fireworks
  • You wear shorts when it’s 50 degrees out in March, but bundle up and complain in August when it goes below 60 degrees.
  • You have gone trick-or-treating in 2 feet of snow.
  • You “warsh” your clothes.
  • State Wresting was a big deal at your high school
  • You measure distance in minutes
  • The nearest Gap and Ann Taylor are at least 90 minutes away
  • Down south to you means Missouri
  • You know several people who have hit a deer
  • You were allowed to get a “school permit” to drive at age 14 if you lived more than a mile from school
  • You have no problem spelling or pronouncing “Des Moines”
  • You could play “Iowa Bingo” with county road names when traveling from town to town (C65, D15, P36, N19, etc.)
  • You know the answer to the question, “Is this Heaven?”
  • Your school classes were canceled because of cold
  • Your school classes were canceled because of heat
  • You know what “Hawks” and “Clones” are.
  • You’ve ridden the school bus for an hour each way
  • You’ve ever had to switch from “heat” to “A/C” in the same day
  • You know what’s knee-high by the Fourth of July
  • Stores don’t have bags, they have sacks
  • You see people wear bib overalls at funerals.
  • You see a car running in the parking lot at the store with no one in it no matter what time of the year.
  • You end your sentences with an unnecessary preposition. Example:”Where’s my coat at?” or “If you go to the mall I wanna go with.”
  • All the festivals across the state are named after a fruit or vegetable
  • Detassling was your first job
  • You’ve ever been on a “Geode Hunt”
  • Your idea of a really great tenderloin is when the meat is twice as big as the bun and accompanied only by ketchup and a dill pickle slice
  • You say catty wampes instead of kitty-corner
  • You learn your pickup will run without a muffler
  • You install security lights on your house and garage and leave both  unlocked
  • You think of the major four food groups as beef, pork, beer, and Jell-O salad with marshmallows
  • You drink “pop.”
  • When asked how your trip was to any foreign, exotic place, you say, “It was different.”
  • Going to Target is your idea of FUN
  • Being a bit younger, you remember Terry Branstad as governor the whole time you were growing up.
  • You consider being called a “Pork Queen” an honor.
  • People from other states love to hear you say “Iowa” and other words with “Os” in them.
  • You carry jumper cables in your car.
  • You know what the numbers I-80, 280 and 380 mean
  • You know what “cow tipping” is
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You Might be Drunk if…

  • you wake up drssed as a woman and think, “hey, I look alright.!”
  • you walk into the house saying “Home Honey, I’m High”
  • you lose arguments with inanimate objects.
  • you wake up in the bedroom fully clothed, except for your underwear, which you strangly find in the bathroom.
  • you go into any bar in town and they have a bar stool with you name engraved on the back.
  • you wake up in the middle of the night, pee in a beer bottle, and then the next morning wake up take a drink and exclaim, “This beer is stale!”
  • every night, your roommate’s cat gets more and more attractive.
  • when you walk in, the whole bar says hello.
  • you think beer is the elusive 6th food group.
  • your only conversations with God are over a commode pleading “just help me stop puking and I’ll NEVER drink again!”
  • you wake up and find a loaf of unsliced bread with bites missing next to your bed!
  • you’re as jober as a sudge.
  • you throw a rock at the ground and miss.
  • you can trip over a cordless phone.
  • you get out of bed and miss the floor.
  • you think that the floor always slants when you stand up.
  • you think your best date is the bartender because you see her more than one night.
  • you think that the way to prononce your name actually involves a blech.
  • you never need a family reunion, you started drinking at the same bar as your family.
  • you think your dinner is made out of the bloody mary vegtables.
  • you wake up in the morning and can’t figure out how you got home, and then realize that you are not at home.
  • your slogan is “Save Water, Drink Beer”.
  • the yellow couch you’ve been lying on turns out to be the curb.
  • people didn’t know you drank till you sobered up once
  • you keep trying to order a bouble durban
  • you try to change a light bulb by holding onto it and letting the room spin
  • doctors find traces of blood in your alcohol stream.
  • you have to grab onto your lawn to keep from falling off the world.
  • you find yourself inside a bus shelter and can’t get out.
  • you puke on a moth then weep for hours cause you killed it.
  • you have so much trouble aiming that you hit the other objects in the bathroom more than the toilet…
  • …especially if you manage to hit the ceiling.
  • there is only one very large woman in the bar, and she just happens to be the woman of your dreams.
  • your bed is flying through your bedroom and you have to wait for it to pass so you can jump in. ( How come everyone out there is nodding their heads???
  • the walls have grown fluorescent lights.
  • your bed feels remarkably similar to the tarmac on a car park.
  • you bark at the cat.
  • you crash on the bed, get up three hours later–take a long walk to the “bathroom” and later suspect that the dog has relieved himself in your room.
  • you think the TV is a urinal.
  • you think that everyone out on the freeway wants to hear your rendition of “See me, Feel me” from Tommy.
  • you can take a group shower in mixed company without any regrets or incidents.
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You Might be from Las Vegas if…

  • You no longer associate bridges (or river) with water.
  • You can say 110 degrees without fainting.
  • You can make instant sun tea.
  • You learn that a seat belt makes a pretty good branding iron.
  • The temperature drops below 95, you feel a bit chilly.
  • You discover that you can get a sunburn through your car window.
  • You notice the best parking place is determined by shade instead of distance.
  • Hot water now comes out of both taps.
  • It’s noon in July, kids are on summer vacation, and not one person is out on the streets.
  • You realize that asphalt has a liquid state.
  • You’ve ever been asked whether or not you live in a hotel.
  • Most of the moving walkways in your town aren’t in the airport.
  • You can instantly recall the schedule for all of the free shows.
  • You can name at least three places to see white tigers, and none of them are zoos.
  • You’re familiar with the proper procedures for killer bee attacks.
  • You can find more celebrities in your town at any given time than you can in Hollywood.
  • You see people dressed as Klingons, and there’s no Star Trek convention, and it’s not Halloween.
  • You wonder how confused future archaeologists will be when they dig up your town.
  • The only two Lakes you can name are “Mead” and “Bellagio”.
  • Your town is basically a big garbage disposal for cash.
  • You know when the next building implosion is.
  • You know what lies beyond the Strip.
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You Might be a Guitarist if…

  • you always carry picks in your wallet, but not necessarily cash.
  • you start a scale in the wrong place, and your wife comes home and tells you she bought a new g-string and you answer, “Cool, Phosphor Bronze or Nickel wound?” ( mojoman )
  • your wife tells you she dented the fender, and you run to the guitar room to check on your strat. ( mojoman )
  • no matter where you are in your house, you’re within 5 inches of a tray of picks.
  • you go through more strings than girlfriends.
  • you tie your shoes up with high gauge strings.
  • you’ve ever been sprayed with water to make you stop playing.
  • you’ve ever taken speed just to play death-metal.
  • you’ve ever threatened someone with physical violence after they bump into the head of your guitar (and caused it to detune).
  • you’ve ever yelled at someone for playing one of your old guitars, that hasn’t been touched in 2 years.
  • you’ve ever dropped what you’re doing to go across town on “emergency pick run.”
  • you can play Stairway to Heaven on any stringed insturment.
  • you take more than one guitar on a 3-day vacation.
  • you’ve ever missed two meals in a row trying to “tab out” a song.
  • you’ve ever stopped playing a song in the middle because of a mistake that no one else noticed .
  • you’ve ever figured out tv commercial jingles/tv show themes just to kill time.
  • someone has threatened to injure you if you play Stairway to Heaven one more time.
  • you have one or more guitar within reaching distance while reading this.
  • you have a strong urge to play your guitar while reading this list.
  • you are reading this list with a guitar on your knee.
  • you have taken a break from reading this list to play guitar.
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TwoDots Level 138 Tips and Strategy

This level starts out with a square of clear dots and a square of red dots.

Clearing the square of clear dots first clears the board, but leaves you with no squares. It also feels like a trap.

I’ve cleared the board by clearing the square of clear dots first, but I’ve done better by clearing a square of the green dots + first row of clear dots, then clearing the red square from just above that, then having clear dots all over the board that will help make squares whenever the “natural” ones dry up.

A couple wrong moves will still burn you in the end, that’s why the first 2-3 moves are important.

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TwoDots Level 26 Tips and Strategy

The high dot quota for this level makes it all about squares.

Make a inverted L clearing of three dots in either the lower left (purple) or lower right (blue).

The lower left seems to set up better square opportunities for me, but that could just be a personal thing.

Clear two dot horizontals to reposition for squares when necessary.