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Hi HN — Tidy Baby is a new game made by me and Wyna Liu (of NYT Connections!) that is inspired by the legendary card-based game SET that we assume many of you love (we too love SET…

yeah...working on adding a space bar/key to mobile suburbs solver!

I've played around a little with this but never found a way to do it that I thought worked for the Atlantic puzzle. Here's a very bad example I just made of one way you might use e…

Hi HN — Bracket City is the word puzzle game I made earlier this year and (in part thanks to this community, see https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=43622719 ) managed to license …

Love these ideas -- I've also been thinking about an "arcade" mode where you get prompted with a country "in sight" and you have to guess the bearing

I went with great circles since that feels like the most “natural” straight line on a sphere — the path you’d walk if you just kept going forward without steering. You could define…

This app was designed to answer my wife’s question “what country would we hit if we went straight” (generally posed while pointing her phone) But with two additional twists: 1. It …

I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!) The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still maki…

Amazing convergence! Thank you for playing!

have gone back and forth on this point -- so far I've decided that outer brackets should be a hint that guides on you inner brackets, but that you can't skip any clues but I hear y…

fair! I do think today's puzzle betrays my elder millennial status more than most...

Hi hn - I co-own a diner where I co-host a puzzle night that is kind of like a diner-themed escape room. At the last one, I made a puzzle that was crossword-like clues nested in br…