# Good news/Bad news

**URL:** <https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/good-news-bad-news/20182>\
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**Created:** [February 17, 2017, 6:54am UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/good-news-bad-news/20182 "2017-02-17T06:54:39Z")\
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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:** [February 17, 2017, 10:41pm UTC](https://community.gemsofwar.com/t/good-news-bad-news/20182/18 "2017-02-17T22:41:39Z")

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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 29.561680
      6 33.479082
      7 36.946478
      8 39.984386
      9 42.666210
     10 45.026604
     11 47.112513
     12 48.946650
     13 50.571160
     14 52.014138
     15 53.282962
     16 54.417065
     17 55.425743
     18 56.309690
     19 57.102063
     20 57.810127
     21 58.438365
     22 58.998906
     23 59.499533
     24 59.942867
     25 60.343145
     26 60.699484
     27 61.016209
     28 61.299726
     29 61.558639
     30 61.791511

```

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