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by zamadatix 2106 days ago
I quickly realized variations of:

    │  │
    └--┤
       │
Weren't going to work so I switched to the style in the font:

     ╱│
    ∠--┼
       │
And it really liked to give 7, 6, or 2 if I went in the left,upRight,down pattern.

I think I found out the trick though: if you make a sharp 4 like the font you get random results but if you just make smooth loop of it (almost looks like a tilted roller coaster) it gets it every time.