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Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
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Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#12I'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!
I should add a tutorial with images because a lot of people were commenting thats it's not very clear how the game should be played, thanks for not giving up trying to understand it!
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#13Really interesting! It does need an explanation - took me a bit of clicking around to discover the rules (which I actually enjoyed because it turned out not to be too complicated! But some will give up early). One aspect I liked about the larger puzzle sizes it that the topology becomes nontrivial: you can work out for sure that a cell has to be marked without knowing the exact path from the edge inwards, which you l…
great suggestion, I need to add a way you can lock cells or flag them like in minesweeper
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#14Ok, I was confused by this, I had vastly overcomplicated what I thought you had to do, confused by the word 'loop' the only thing you can do in the puzzle is hide or reveal squares from the edges in. your goal is to make sure the number of contiguous square in the shape formed by a given square and the squares up,down,left,right equals the number in the square, the red number is just tally letting you know how far yo…
thank for explaining it better than I could! its a little confusing to describe it with words I should add an image tutorial.
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#15It creates puzzles with multiple possible solutions:
5 6 3 _
4 _ _ _
6 7 4 _
_ 4 _ _
The bottom right corner can be in the loop, or out of the loop, and both solutions are valid.
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#16It creates puzzles with multiple possible solutions: 5 6 3 _ 4 _ _ _ 6 7 4 _ _ 4 _ _ The bottom right corner can be in the loop, or out of the loop, and both solutions are valid.
yes, the solutions are not unique, it would be very hard to make sure the puzzle has a unique solution probably requiring a brute force algorithm, the puzzle itself is NP complete, the way I generate the puzzle is to first create the "loop" with all cells having numbers in them then removing numbers from cells at random.
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#17I'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!
I should add a tutorial with images because a lot of people were commenting thats it's not very clear how the game should be played, thanks for not giving up trying to understand it!
I tried everything and I still don't understand. Left/right/middle click everywhere, typing numbers on the keyboard, space, enter... What is happening?
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#18I 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."
I really like that approach
Re: Show HN: Corral – A Visual Logic Puzzle About Enclosing Numbers
#19Earlier quoted context omitted.
I should add a tutorial with images because a lot of people were commenting thats it's not very clear how the game should be played, thanks for not giving up trying to understand it!
I tried everything and I still don't understand. Left/right/middle click everywhere, typing numbers on the keyboard, space, enter... What is happening?
you start with all the cells being inside the loop you need to click with a mouse left button or touch on the edge tiles of the loop to exclude them, if thats not working then it could be another problem.