Strategy guides, updates, and news from the Jelmata team.
April 16, 2026
768 seeded AI-vs-AI games across four board sizes: 6×6 and 8×8 hand the first player a double-digit win rate lift, while 5×5 and 7×7 stay within a coin flip of fair.
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Most game-AI posts skip the failed experiments. This one doesn't. Three lessons from a week of training pipelines that got rolled back — and why the shipping AI is what it is because of the dead ends, not in spite of them.
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Why groups look like gel blobs and not grids of rectangles — and the 300ms pseudopod animation that plays when a new cell joins an existing group.
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Jelmata started as a Cell Division variant about connections. Before multiplicative scoring, we tried three other rules — here's why they didn't stick.
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The game was originally called Cellmata — a nod to Cell Division, with an automata wink. Then JellySplit happened, and the cells started looking more like gels.
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Six cells can score 6, 9, or 36 depending on how they're grouped. The math behind Jelmata's product scoring — and why it flips every habit you learned from Go and Othello.
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Why symmetric boards let the second player force a draw, the seven reflections and rotations Jelmata watches for, and what happens when the pattern holds for three pairs in a row.
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Corners and edges aren't just safer — they're how you maintain multiple groups and multiply your score. A guide with worked examples.
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A complete guide to Jelmata: place cells, connect groups, master the mirror rule, and win the board.
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The Jelmata AI never searches — it evaluates. One pass, four difficulty personalities, and a small trick that makes a millisecond move feel like a considered one.
Read more →April 14, 2026
Jelmata's Elite AI is a 303 KB neural network that fits in your app bundle. No server, no subscription, no wait between moves — here's why it plays the way it does.
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