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Pawel_SkimmIQ

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About Pawel_SkimmIQ

Creator of SkimmIQ — a 3D puzzle where you slide color bands instead of turning faces. Almost 60, not a programmer by trade, built it with AI assistance. Interested in puzzle theory, solvers, and the open question of human methods. pawel@skimmiq.com

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    Comment #49431084

    Even now when you turn off the Solver Menu in settings you have 10 free scrambles within one ad refill (unless you use another premium feature in the meantime)

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    Comment #49431043

    On second thought: still that between-tiles click is real feedback. Drag outside the cube must rotate the view (with no tile hit I cannot guess which band you meant), but the gaps …

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    Comment #49430954

    Thank you! And if you ever solve it, I want to hear about it ;)

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    Comment #49430944

    Thank you! :)

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    Comment #49430937

    I did not know Geranium, thank you. Looking at the simulator now. And you are right - it really works on a similar idea. And I see people rate Geranium 10/10 difficulty with Hungar…

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    Comment #49430893

    The demo is a 60-second teaser, it was never the game. In the app you get a free pool of scrambles, then one rewarded ad refills it. The next update makes it about ten scrambles pe…

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    Comment #49430874

    Fair point, and you are right. The demo starts solved because its only job is to show how one move works: nothing turns here, bands of stickers slide. The goal is the classic one, …

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    Show HN: A puzzle I couldn't solve for a year – cubers cracked it in an hour

    Dev here. I created a puzzle that looks like Rubik's cube but works differently. Instead of turning faces, closed bands of 12 stickers slide around the cube. Every scramble is solv…

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    Comment #49320965

    Fair point about voice. The stories and opinions here are mine, from my own life. If some sentences come out too smooth, that is the tradeoff of writing in a third language with a …

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    Comment #49299323

    Fair guess, but only half right. English is my third language, so AI polishes my grammar. The observations are mine. At 60 I take help with commas wherever I can get it ;)

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    Comment #49265130

    Mine is from Poland, early 90s, and even more analog. I worked at a Polish-Italian company. Our accountant used an ERP program, DOS, written in Clipper. There was no internet, so t…

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    Comment #49265013

    The interesting part for me: this held for a year because nobody found the method. Once the method was identified, the rest was mechanical, and an LLM is a perfect executor for the…