"Cashing in" means cashing in the helpers that you earn as you match the hats. You can either cash them in at the end of a stage for more points or use them to either switch two stacks or lower a stack by removing hats from the bottom.

You need to cash in helpers to get a high score.

I like this game better than Yoshi. Or at least I'm better at it than Yoshi. It's awfully slow paced though, and runs take a long time.

 

69,116


this game gives you no time to take a pic of the score screen.

I'm using an emulator so I can pause at the high score screen. Otherwise you have to start a new game and kill yourself to get back to the high score screen if you miss taking a picture.
 

yea, i had to hurry up and game over twice before i got a pic.

I think I only cashed in once :/ oh well I’m probably done for the week   
 

Score updated (57,862). I was able to get a few thousand more points.

349,786

...

Wow.

 

Chairy!!! You dog!!!

I wonder how many hours of Hatris he had to sit through in order to get that score.

The mad hatter
The top hat fat cat
The trucker cap .... guy
The score a fidora
The floggin toboggan

10 minutes. He’s chairy! 

 

Ahhh aint that a shame but good score. No time now to top this. Good win tables.

Well crap. I thought I had posted my 92k score, but it didn't go through. I just needed participation to take the puzzle genre...oh well.

Nice job Tables. So, what shop do we start on? I tried selling my workers, but I just couldn't play enough to figure out how to get a decent score. The lack of info online about this game makes it perfect for the weekly contest too.

Yep. This game is not popular at all (somewhat surprising considering that it's by the creator of Tetris, but it is very slow going) and there isn't much online about it.

I don't think there is any scoring advantage to not starting at shop 0. At first I thought there was an advantage based on the shop and low stage number for Krunch's score. But I didn't know that it goes back to the first stage after you complete a shop.
 

Final leaderboard posted.
With this result, Tables takes the Puzzle crown with Bert and Krunch tied for second!

I started after the lions game and played till passed 7 so I guess around 3 hours
 

 
I can see why Hatris isn't the most popular puzzle game when a high score run takes three hours. The game is so slow.





 

Loopz is the same way. I like that game, but you can burn up hours on it and still have a relatively low score. The TG leader on that game must have spent most of a day to get his score.