OVERVIEW
- Estimated trophy difficulty: 1/10 with guide, 2/10 at most without. (personal estimate) (Trophy Difficulty Rating)
- Offline trophies: 31 (4, 23, 3, 1)
- Online trophies: 0
- Approximate amount of time to Platinum: 30mins with Guide, 2hrs without. (personal estimate) (Estimated Time to Platinum)
- Minimum number of playthroughs: Complete 22 specific levels.
- Number of missable trophies: None.
- Glitched trophies: N/A
- Does difficulty affect trophies?: Yes but all levels have preset difficulties including Beginner, Easy, Medium and Hard.
- Do trophies stack?: Yes, there are currently 6 lists: 3 on PS4 (NA, EU, AS) and 3 on Vita (NA, EU, AS)
- Do cheat codes disable trophies?: No cheats
- Additional peripherals required?: No
POWGI is well-known for their large array of quick puzzle games, most based on a common game (minesweeper, crosswords etc.) but with a little twist to make it their own. This one takes the classic game of Tic-Tac-Toe to a whole new level! Instead of trying to match three to win the game, you literally have to do the exact opposite. Instead, you have to fill the grid with letters but making sure that none have more than two of the same letters consecutively. As the difficulty level increases so does the grid size, and so does the awareness necessary! Even so, in the end, like the rest of the games in their compilation, this is an easy game to play and quick to finish, and a great choice when you need a quick platinum or want to zone out!
TIP: In the pause menu, there is an option that says: "Use XO." As you can probably guess, it turns the various letters into X's and O's rather than whatever two that level uses. If that helps you, feel free to use it, it won't void any trophies but unless you plan to play all 120 levels, I'd suggest leaving it off so that it's easier for you to keep track of the levels, which ones you've done and which you have left.
TIP: Press or when in the select screen to cycle through the list of puzzle packs. Annoyingly, the game takes you back to the first page every single time you go back into the select screen so try to remember where you were, especially if you're not planning on doing all 120 levels.
All in all, there are a whopping total of 120 levels but if you're only after the platinum, you only have to complete 22 specific levels. Unfortunately, there are no level names and, without opening each one, no obvious distinguishing marks so the letter combos are the only way to tell them apart. In the guide below, each trophy contains the exact level number and location (which page, row and button) for each corresponding letter combo to help you keep track.
There are four difficulties in total, each on their own page, and you will need to solve certain puzzles in each difficulty. The difference between them is grid size and the number of starting letters filled. Beginner comes with an 8x8 grid, Easy is 12x8, Medium is 14x10, and lastly, Hard is 16x12.
When you start a level, depending on the difficulty, the game will start you off with some letters already in place. One letter will be blue and one will be black and the idea is to never have more than two of the same letters/colors next to each other so naturally, the first thing you want to do in any level is to look for all instances where two letters/colors are side by side (e.g. XX) and place the opposite letter/color on each end (e.g: OXXO) or the ones that are next to each other but with an open space in between (e.g. D __ D) and fill the blank with the opposite (e.g. DKD). Doing this will almost always lead you to yet another group of matches to continue the pattern with, and on and on you go until the grid is full! In harder difficulties, the game gives you fewer matches to start with and less filled-in letters in general so if you have any trouble, remember there are various hints available (see Tac-Tics).
Step 1 Play the game and complete the 22 levels specified below
When you start your first level, it'll show you instructions on how to play the game. Make sure to go through each page pressing until the last page to unlock a trophy. If you forget, you can do so in any level at any time by pressing .
Otherwise, you don't really need to worry about the other trophies just yet as you'll most likely get them naturally as you complete the levels. Perhaps the only one you might want to keep in mind is that you're going to need to use 100 hints in total by the end ( Help Meowt) but even that one isn't so important because it's easy to speed through it; if you want to just get it over with quickly, all you have to do is spam the hint button every time you put in a letter and you'll probably finish it in one or two levels.
By the end of this step, you will have earned:
In-fur-mation
Shall We Play a Game?
How About a Nice Game of Chess?
Hugs and Kisses
TA-Daaaaa!
Heeby GB
Tuning In
Boobs! It Says Boobs!
Scrambled Eggs
That's IT!
Dancing Queen
Hysterical
Gnice Gnoing
Laughing Out Loud
Things That Make You Go Hmm
DO-Gooder
Puppies!
Rootin' Tootin'
Seek YE and Ye Shall Find It
The Joy of EX
Aha!
YR Doin GR8
I See You
Your Puzzle FU Is Strong
Sweet as PI
Step 2: Clean up any remaining trophies
Although it's unlikely you'll still have these trophies missing by the end, in case there's any, go back and complete any puzzle you wish and do the following: complete a puzzle in 60 seconds, do nothing for 60 seconds, solve a puzzle without making a mistake, solve one without using any hints or "fixes" and finally, if you still haven't, read the instructions ()!
By the end of this step, you'll receive:
The Only Winning Move Is Not to Play
Help Meowt
Who's a Clever Boy?
Tac-Tics
Tic-Tock
A Strange Game
[PST Would Like To Thank ixii for this Roadmap]