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Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

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Re: Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

#11
post #5

A nice feature would be "locking" black squares, or otherwise marking them somehow, to distinguish them from squares you may still switch in the future.

Agreed. The black squares should turn white once a row AND column are correct. Otherwise, you just spend you time scanning right and down checking if that row/col is right again. It is tedium and not enjoyable.

Re: Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

#12
post #4

I'd prefer the rows, columns and diagonals to have their current sums visible next to the desired totals. Right now, it's tedious to have to add all the numbers up for each one.

To me that was the point of the puzzle.

Your suggestion would kill the challenge, turning the game into a casual dopamine inducer.

Re: Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

#15
post #5

A nice feature would be "locking" black squares, or otherwise marking them somehow, to distinguish them from squares you may still switch in the future.

Yeah, you should be able to manually lock or they should lock automatically once it’s guaranteed a tile is in the right place. Like if there’s only one black tile in a row and that row is correct.

Re: Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

#17
The HTML structure is very problematic. You use a , even though semantically the game grid is not a table of data. I would have used a with display:grid , though this is not a big deal. The active cell is a with onclick, which means the cursor doesn't show it as clickable and I can't even tab to it so keyboard play is impossible. There are ways to make a look clickable, but it's easiest to just use .

Re: Show HN: I made a math puzzle game. Hope you like it

#20
post #17

The HTML structure is very problematic. You use a , even though semantically the game grid is not a table of data. I would have used a with display:grid , though this is not a big deal. The active cell is a with onclick, which means the cursor doesn't show it as clickable and I can't even tab to it so keyboard play is impossible. There are ways to make a look clickable, but it's easiest to just use .

Good point.
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