Very clever but very difficult game! I didn't realise I could clear things until I saw the gifs afterwards, but it seems like it would require some RNG to do that consistently, unless I just completely suck. Since sometimes you'll just get the sizes way out of order and be forced to lock yourself out (reminds me of suika game in that sense). Anyway overall it was a really fun entry :)
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i thought the same at first, until my friends and i developed some strategies to deal with it as we were playtesting it. (truth be told, a lot of this game feels like it came together like a happy accident!)
i think the trick is that since small blocks are such a bottleneck, you want to minimize the amount of them in the way of making the 64x64 block: if you first focus on making a tall stack, you can safely place excess small blocks on top of it. the well fills up pretty fast, but you usually get the time to merge any small stuff you were probably forced to place on the floor by the time you're forced to put a bigger block on them.
...of course, sometimes the RNG does still screw you over. (sorry! i don't have a tetris-like bag system or anything.) but i can make it to 5 clears somewhat regularly. ~~(sometimes 6 at which point the score counter bugs out because of messed up fixed point math but don't worry about it)~~