Guess I am that other person!

Spectrum is a great game, with one flaw: scoring rules that go against the spirit of the game.
One star is worth 100,000 points (and only at the end of the game) while your bonus may be much larger than that (you can register up to up to 11 guesses, and score 5k per wrong guess, 10k per correct guess, times bonus multiplier). Up to 9 of these guesses can be correct, meaning your bonus can reach (9x10k +2x5k) x4 = 400,000 points. That is an extreme case, but scoring 200,000 bonus points after each of your 3 balls is not unusual.

So it is actually risky and counterproductive to break the secret code, which resets all lights: if you lose the ball right after that, you can lose a lot of points...

To change that, a talented friend of mine changed the ruleset: each star now scores 300,000 points.