# 70% mana from explosions?

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**Created:** [August 8, 2018, 8:56pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/70-mana-from-explosions/43816 "2018-08-08T20:56:58Z")\
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**Author:** ![Lyya](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex019/user_avatar/community.gemsofwar.com/lyya/32/3650_2.png) [@Lyya](https://community.gemsofwar.com/u/Lyya)\
**Post date:** [August 9, 2018, 2:11am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/70-mana-from-explosions/43816/10 "2018-08-09T02:11:04Z")

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Old post, but still relevant. Tl;dr: 5 gem and 10 gem explode are quite substantially different on average. You need to be in the low teens before the differences per exploded gem diminish substantially.

> [@Good news/Bad news](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/good-news-bad-news/20182/18):
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> That’s partially due to the diminishing returns you get with more exploded Gems. Just for fun, I just wrote a simulator that simulates explodes of 1 to 30 gems on an 8x8 board, across a million trials for each number of explosions, and calculates the average number of destroyed gems per explosion. Exploded Destroyed ======== ========= 1 7.561303 2 14.183169 3 19.996500 4 25.084244 5 29.561…

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