Great game! I wish I could control which direction the jump goes, because it does not always take the route with the most points.
Oh yes, that was actually quite intentional. The route is selected only based on the next step value and not the whole chain just to encourage players to not just haphazardly throw cards in. Also happened to me so many times during the development that I had "carefully" planned a chain spanning almost the whole board and then immediately upon moving took a wrong turn due to misplaced matching value or something. Thanks for playing!