Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers

Hey HN!

I just finished building a puzzle game called Corral, and I’d love to share it with you. It’s a logic puzzle played on a rectangular grid, where some of the cells contain numbers. Your goal is to mark which cells are inside a single continuous loop that encloses all the numbers.

For each numbered cell, the number tells you how many cells are visible in the four orthogonal directions (up, down, left, right) until a wall of the loop is hit, plus the cell itself. So a cell with a 2 must see one empty cell before hitting the loop boundary. Gameplay is all about deduction: you can mark cells as definitely inside or definitely outside the loop. The loop must be one continuous shape, with no "islands" inside. Every puzzle has a solution and can be solved using pure logic.

There are three difficulty levels that you can choose from, enjoy!

Would love to hear your thoughts, ideas, or bug reports. Thanks for taking a look!

Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
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I'm on mobile, I clicked through and I had no idea of what I'm supposed to do. Perhaps there's a tutorial that's expected to be shown and wasn't, if not, I'd suggest you add one, the linkedin games ones have usually good ones to use as inspiration.

Otherwise, an "hint" button is always a good idea to help with frustration.

Edit: once I finally understood the rules, it's a pretty nice game!

Can you add a visual tutorial with examples.

I had no idea what the numbers are. Came back to read your text description above and still only vaguely understand it. Sorry, ESL.

This is actually fun!

I agree it's confusing at the beginning, but I think it's much better to figure out the rules on your own. It requires a bit of testing, but it's completely doable.

I'd add a line below the game, e.g. "Your first goal is to figure out the rules. Click here if you're still confused after a while."