Jetstar Asia is celebrating its anniversary by putting up a flash game for people to try their hands at. It’s a tile matching game where one is required to match 2 of the same tiles consecutively out of a total of 60 tiles.

Being short of cash for holidays, I thought it was worth a try and who knows, I might win a pair of air tickets if I’m really good. So I tried my hands at it together with my gf, and no matter how hard we tried we couldn’t do any better than 3 minutes.

That’s pretty strange, given that the top player managed just 90 over seconds. That was near impossible, I think… unless he got super lucky. Impossible to have anything less than 2 minutes, because each time after you click on 2 tiles, there would be a delay of about 1 second before you can click the next tile. At this rate, you must be damn lucky or have got photographic memory to win the game within a few dozen clicks if you clock under 100 seconds.

Then, I refreshed the page and saw the top 2 scorers had ZERO seconds as their score. Hah! There must be something wrong.

I then went to search the net for any potential exploits to flash games… and I found a nifty little software tool that allows decompiling and recompiling of flash files. With that, one can go into the source code, change some parameters and easily win the game! I tried it out a little, but couldn’t figure out what to change since the code was thousands of lines long… and I had absolutely no idea which parameter was for what.

That’s quite dumb yea. Now everyone who understands flash code can cheat and get zero seconds. Jetstar would have a hard time distinguishing who are the legitimate players. I hope they pull the game out and have a lucky draw or something more foolproof instead.

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