''Threes'' (stylized as ''Threes!'') is a
puzzle video game
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by Sirvo, an independent development team consisting of game designer
Asher Vollmer
Asher Vollmer (born September 14, 1989) is an American indie video game developer. He created ''Puzzlejuice'' and '' Threes''.
While a student at USC Interactive Media & Games Division, he developed 2012 iOS game ''Puzzlejuice'' with Greg W ...
, illustrator
Greg Wohlwend
Greg Wohlwend is an American independent video game developer and artist whose games include '' Threes!'' and '' Ridiculous Fishing''. He originally formed Intuition Games with Iowa State University classmate Mike Boxleiter in 2007 where they ...
, and composer
Jimmy Hinson
Jimmy Hinson, also known as Big Giant Circles, is an American musician and composer in the video games industry. Originally adopting the name as a hobbyist submitting video game music remixes/rearrangements to OverClocked ReMix, Hinson now active ...
. The game was released on February 6, 2014, for
iOS
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devices and later
ported
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to
Android,
Xbox One
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, and
Windows Phone
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. In ''Threes'', the player slides numbered tiles on a grid to combine
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s and
multiples of three. The game ends when there are no moves left on the grid and the tiles are counted for a final score.
The basic game was prototyped in a single night, but the team spent over half a year iterating through variations on the idea with visual themes such as
sushi
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and
chess
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. By the end of the game's 14-month development, the team returned to the game's simple principles and numbers theme.
The game received what video game review score aggregator
Metacritic
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described as "universal acclaim". Reviewers found the game "charming" and "addictive" and compared it to ''Drop7'', ''
Stickets
''Stickets'' is an iOS game developed by Australian indie studio Wanderlands and released on May 30, 2013.
Gameplay
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'', and ''
Triple Town
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''. ''
Eurogamer
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'' and ''
TouchArcade
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''TouchArcade'' has been recognized as one of the best mobile game ...
'' awarded the game perfect scores, with the latter calling ''Threes'' "about as close as it gets to a perfect mobile game". Other developers released
similar games and clones within weeks of the game's launch.
Apple Inc.
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named ''Threes'' the best
iPhone game of 2014.
Gameplay
![Threes video game trailer (thumb)](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/e/e3/Threes_video_game_trailer_%28thumb%29.gif)
The player slides numbered tiles on a four-by-four grid to combine addends and multiples of three. For example, ones and twos merge to become a single "three" tile, two threes merge into "six", and two sixes merge into "12". Swiping the screen up, down, left, or right moves all of the tiles one square (if possible) on the grid in that direction and adds a new tile to the grid in the same direction. The color of the incoming tile is shown onscreen. Players can preview moves by sliding the grid without letting go. Each kind of number tile has its own personality, and new kinds of number tiles are introduced with a screen full of confetti when first unlocked.
Games of ''Threes'' typically last several minutes and end when no moves remain on the grid (usually when gridlocked with a single high number tile and many low number tiles). When a game is finished, there is no "
game over" screen, but players receive a final score based on the rarity of the tiles (rather than the tile number values). The object of the game is to earn a high score. Outside of the game, players can review their scores and set
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challenges.
There are a total of 12 kinds of number tiles in the game with values from 3 through 6,144. There is also a 13th character that is unlocked when two 6,144 tiles are combined; this character is marked by a triangle rather than the number 12,288. When this character is revealed, the game ends and points are totaled as usual. This feat was achieved and documented by Twitter user Threesporn in 2017 and publicly acknowledged by developer Asher Vollmer.
Development
''Threes'' was conceived by game designer Asher Vollmer, who worked on the game with artist Greg Wohlwend and composer
Jimmy Hinson
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. The three, as Sirvo LLC, had previously collaborated on the 2012
iOS
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word game ''
Puzzlejuice
''Puzzlejuice'' is a 2012 indie puzzle video game for iOS produced and developed by video game company Sirvo. The game is a combination of ''Tetris'', tile-matching, and Boggle: players rearrange falling tetromino blocks into rows of simila ...
''. Wohlwend had worked on games including ''
Ridiculous Fishing'' and ''
Hundreds''. ''Threes'' development began before ''Ridiculous Fishing'' March 2013 release. Vollmer presented an idea similar to the final product in its simplicity: pair tiles as multiples of three. Vollmer considered ''
Drop7
''Drop7'' is a puzzle game developed by Area/Code Entertainment, for Android and iOS.
Gameplay
The game is played with touch controls on a 7x7 square grid. In each round, the player places a disc that falls from the top of the grid. Each di ...
'' an inspiration for the game, and played it for two years before making his game.
The first ''Threes'' prototype was written in a single night. With Wohlwend, the two-man development team spent at least half a year of the game's 14-month development iterating on this main idea.
Some of the iterations included new numberless visual themes and new game mechanics such as a monster who ate tiles and a wall that blocked certain movements. Early ''Threes'' designs had no inclination towards
minimalism
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: the pair felt that the game needed to appear more complex so as to interest players. Wohlwend sent Vollmer designs including
sushi
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-themed tiles that paired fish and rice, a
chess
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theme that paired chess pieces, themes about animals,
broccoli and cheese soup, military insignia,
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, and
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. Their test audiences were confused by the close to two dozen themes tested in total. Vollmer commented that these ideas made the game feel "unwieldy and unnatural" and that he always preferred the game when the changes were reverted. They received a "wake-up call" from fellow game designer
Zach Gage
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Gage learned to code throughout his youth and studied art at Skidmore College and Parsons School of Design, where he ...
, who encouraged them to return from their foray into complexity. The final game returned to its original theme of numbers. Speaking in retrospect, Wohlwend said the game "always wanted to be simple". He noted that players "think math" upon seeing the game's numbers, though the game is more about "spatial relationships" and just happens to have a "number theme".
When returning to the fundamental and original game conceptpairing tiles as multiples of threethe developers felt their experiments informed their final game development decisions. The theme of individual tile personalities extended to the final version, as tiles have faces and express emotions when paired. For example, the 384 tile has a pirate personality with a large tooth and a pirate eyepatch. Wohlwend has said that the number tiles grow in character with their size. The idea for character faces beneath the cards remained from previous theme iterations, and the character voices were provided by indie game developers. Of the development process, Wohlwend called it "tough and frustrating and sometimes hard to see if it was worth it". Vollmer credited
thatgamecompany
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for teaching him applicable lessons of restraint during his time there.
The game was released by Sirvo for iOS on February 6, 2014, and
ported
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by indie developer Hidden Variable Studios for
Android on March 12, 2014. The team chose to release for iOS first due to the small team's difficulty
testing across Android platforms. Hidden Variable also developed an
Xbox One
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version, which was originally announced at Microsoft's
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Ma ...
press conference, and released on December 5, 2014. The release supports the console's "snap mode" (to play in the corner of the screen while the player watches something else) as well as online
leaderboards
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and a "night mode" darker palette option. A free
Windows Phone
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version was released on April 27, 2015, and a free
web browser
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version in December 2015. The browser release does not include advertisements, unlike the free smartphone releases. In a post-release infographic, Sirvo wrote that the average game length was 20 minutes, even though they designed the game's sessions to not last longer than 10 minutes. They also reported that 93 percent of players in China used
unlicensed copies of the game.
Reception
![Letterpress screenshot](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/8/83/Letterpress_screenshot.png)
The game received what video game review score aggregator
Metacritic
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described as "universal acclaim", with a 92% rating based on 19 reviews. ''
Eurogamer
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'' and ''
TouchArcade
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'' awarded the game perfect scores, with the latter calling ''Threes'' "about as close as it gets to a perfect mobile game". It was an honorable mention in the 2014
Independent Games Festival
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's Excellence in Design category. The game reached the top of the
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paid app sales chart shortly after its release. ''Re/code'' reported that it "dominated" the chart in the following weeks and became one of the 25 highest grossing apps on the App Store. It later won a 2014
Apple Design Award
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and was named Apple's best iPhone game of 2014. Reviewers found the game "charming" and "addictive". They compared the game with the luck of ''
Drop7
''Drop7'' is a puzzle game developed by Area/Code Entertainment, for Android and iOS.
Gameplay
The game is played with touch controls on a 7x7 square grid. In each round, the player places a disc that falls from the top of the grid. Each di ...
'', the challenge of ''Stickets'', and the "match-by-combining" mechanics in ''
Triple Town
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The casual game was originally released for the Amazon Ki ...
''. Reviewers also praised the simplicity of the tutorial and noted how their attention on combining large number tiles contrasted with their need to watch the board's movements as a whole.
Ben Kuchera of ''Polygon'' wrote that the game was "a brilliant little puzzler" and commented on the difficulty of designing such an accessible minimalist game. Dan Ryckert of ''
Game Informer
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'' noted that the game had all of the qualities of a successful mobile game: accessibility of short game sessions, easy to learn and tough to master gameplay, room to make and try strategies, and gameplay mechanics suited for
touchscreens
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. He added that his progressive play strategy adaptations for higher scores made the game joyful. ''
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'' Kyle Orland wrote that he expects the game to join ''Drop7'' and ''
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'' on his phone for the rest of his life and ''
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'' designer Ryan Clark called ''Threes'' the best iOS game he had ever played.
Mark Sorrell of ''Eurogamer'' compared the game's "profoundly and offensively banal" aesthetic to a "hipster restaurant" with good food but a smug ambiance, citing the soundtrack's "whimsy" and the art style's similarity to iOS game ''Letterpress''. He praised the game's mechanics. ''TouchArcade'' compared the game's scaffolding mechanics to the turn-based
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''Hoplite'', and ''The Verge'' Andrew Webster compared the game's addictive mechanics to
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and its style to ''Letterpress'' and ''Spelltower''. Nick Statt of
CNET
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thought the game had ''
Tetris
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'' beauty and ''
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'' visual appeal. He cited the game as an example of "flow" design principles at work, where the game is designed for players to enter a state of focus and self-awareness. ''
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'' Eric Johnson called the game a descendant of Sudoku, ''Dots'', and ''
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''. ''
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'' Mark Brown thought the game's randomness kept its gameplay interesting and
MAME
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creator
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wrote an
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to play the game.
''
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'' wrote that the game "can feel a little insubstantial" in its lack of gameplay variety, though its "charm and craft" will make players return. They wrote that the soundtrack is cheerful and memorable with an "indie
romcom
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feel". ''TouchArcade'' added that the soundtrack "fits the game perfectly" and recommended playing the game with sound activated so as to hear the tiles' personalities. CNET thought the music became repetitive, but that the tile voices were "a little creepy" without the soundtrack. Garrett Martin of ''
Paste'' wrote that he heard the influence of
Jon Brion
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and alluded to
Paul Thomas Anderson
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's early films. Comparing ''Threes'' to ''Hundreds'' as the "quirky American cousin" to ''Hundreds'' "European art film", Martin found ''Threes'' more whimsical in nature and extended
Ian Bogost
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's statements in ''
The Atlantic
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'' about video games as "
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... design objects" to ''Threes''.
Legacy
![2048 finished game](https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/2/28/2048_finished_game.png)
Outside developers released
games that closely resembled ''Threes'' within weeks of its release, including a
browser-based
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In earlier computing models like client-serve ...
version, an "unofficial sort-of-knockoff" Android app (''
Fives
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''), and another
iPhone game, ''1024'', which advertised itself as "No need to pay for ''Threes''" and was later ported to a browser version. A March 2014 clone of ''1024'', the browser game ''
2048'', became popular and spawned "dozens of parodies". Journalists, including those at the ''
Los Angeles Times
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'', did not acknowledge the game's connection to ''Threes''.
The ''Threes'' team was "puzzled" by the popularity of these releases, especially those that did not credit their game for the idea. They criticized ''2048'' game design and compared the game as the ''
Commander Keen
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'' to their ''
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'' in a 45,000-word post outlining their full 14-month development process.
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's
Leigh Alexander
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described the situation as a "unique tragedy". ''Threes'' designer Vollmer would try to remove the clones from online stores but ultimately accepted that the game would be copied and resolved that his future games would not share the same fate.
Eurogamer listed ''Threes'' as one of the top 10 games of the generation.
Tom's Guide
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listed ''Threes'' as one of the top 30 games of the 2010s.
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