Interesting concept. Certainly took a bit of head scratching to get the concept, but now starting to solve them. I did get a successful solve that wasn’t correct, some of the roads weren’t connected.
Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
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Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#12It looks a lot like mind-bending 'Knots' game: https://brainteaser.top/knot/
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#13It is a neat game. With a bit of trying you can find some patterns:
* Every tile has two orientations 0 and 180 degrees which allows to cut a lot of possibilities for small fields. * Three tiles can be flipped together, meaning if you have one or two tiles unsolved, your idea won't work out. * Large fields have more solutions.
Sadly I found some bugs:
* World generation does not work correctly: there is an unmovable field (nice idea!) but during generation it gets moved. This makes some puzzles unsolvable. The randomizer should ignore this field. * The undo function has some issues undoing the wrong move or skipping a move. Fully undoing a puzzle does not always result in a solution. If this happens while you're playing you get locked.
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#14It is a neat game. With a bit of trying you can find some patterns: * Every tile has two orientations 0 and 180 degrees which allows to cut a lot of possibilities for small fields. * Three tiles can be flipped together, meaning if you have one or two tiles unsolved, your idea won't work out. * Large fields have more solutions. Sadly I found some bugs: * World generation does not work correctly: there is an unmovable…
> Three tiles can be flipped together
How do you make that happen? I haven't stumbled on that yet. I did discover, after playing for some time, that I don't have to swap adjacent tiles.
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#15This is pretty easy to solve each level. Here is the strategy I used: in the top right corner there is a button that looks like an "undo" icon and a number. Just keep hitting that until the puzzle is solved. Then you can stop.
Here's an easy solution to a Rubik's cube you might like: Take all the stickers off, and then re-apply them organizing colors by face of the cube.
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#16Does your puzzle start from an (non-visible) completed state, then you apply to it a random number between 50-100 of random moves/swaps, and then it becomes visible for the player? I mean is it (even) solvable? Or each piece of the puzzle is randomly placed AND randomly oriented, which could make potentially unsolvable?
It's start from completed state and then randomized. I think it's solvable if you can retrace the randomized step (by using undo button)
Sometimes it seems to jumble things back into the original arrangement. A couple times I got a new puzzle where everything was already in the right place. I just clicked the same piece twice and coalesced and solved!
So you might do a check after jumbling to make sure you're not back in the original arrangement. If so, keep jumbling.
Fun puzzle!
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#17This is pretty easy to solve each level. Here is the strategy I used: in the top right corner there is a button that looks like an "undo" icon and a number. Just keep hitting that until the puzzle is solved. Then you can stop.
Just knowing how many steps away from solved it is is a big help. If only a few steps away each move has to improve the layout visibly and if not it's probably wrong and you can revert it before you get too far into the weeds.
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#18There’s a tile that I cannot move. It looks like 2 houses 3 trees and one well.
You should be able to click it then click any other tile to swap their positions.
The house tiles are kind of like wildcards since their orientation doesn't seem to matter. They are useful to help flip the orientation of another piece, also with a straight-through piece who's orientation stays the same each time.
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#19It looks a lot like mind-bending 'Knots' game: https://brainteaser.top/knot/
omg this game is so satisfying
Re: Show HN: Hyve Tile, a puzzle game but I can't solve it
#20It is a neat game. With a bit of trying you can find some patterns: * Every tile has two orientations 0 and 180 degrees which allows to cut a lot of possibilities for small fields. * Three tiles can be flipped together, meaning if you have one or two tiles unsolved, your idea won't work out. * Large fields have more solutions. Sadly I found some bugs: * World generation does not work correctly: there is an unmovable…
> Three tiles can be flipped together How do you make that happen? I haven't stumbled on that yet. I did discover, after playing for some time, that I don't have to swap adjacent tiles.
I guess @rrobukef means if you flip A and B repeatedly, they just swap positions and reverse orientation each time.
But if you flip A and B, then B and C, then A and C, you get B and C to swap positions without changing their orientations.