Drop7 Research - Open research lab for optimal puzzle game strategies
Show HN: Searching for optimal strategies in a puzzle game with chance (Drop7)
Drop7 Research is an open, reproducible lab dedicated to finding an autonomous strategy for Drop7, widely considered the greatest puzzle game of all time. It documents 116 approaches across 12 technique families—from expectimax search and n-tuple networks to MCTS and oracle distillation—each explained from the ground up. The site tracks preregistered experiments, registered theories, and recorded results, with a current best candidate averaging 516,155 points against a million-point human target. You can watch games live, hover the board and click a column to drop a disc, and explore every result with published datasets anyone can reproduce.
An experienced human player can score a million points in this game with the right long-term strategic thinking—and the research problem is very much still open.