this is great! i can't believe there aren't more of these. does anyone have any suggestions for mobile versions that can be played offline?
Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
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Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
#162I would love keyboard shortcuts to toggle (for example) pencil mode, or line/empty mode, and other quality of life improvements so I don't have to keep my mouse in one hand!
Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
#163This is great, thank you! I predict agentic coding will change software dramatically in this direction. I recently had my weather app showing me a full-screen video ad. It drove me so mad that I developed wwads in a few hours with claude, Weather Without Ads (or any tracking, etc.), which can be installed as a PWA on Android or iOS. https://jmrk84.github.io/wwads/
We will probably get 100 new apps for any little thing, this part is true. But I still predict 90% will be garbage, or have tracking / ads. So overall the users don't win once again.
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#165Not really sure if you can call Nonogram a puzzle, when you give the answer right in the title.
fair point, maybe I should only show the title after the puzzle is solved. what do you think?
Yes, that's what all classic Nintendo Picross games used to do. And there's a bit of mystery - you never know what you will uncover.
Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
#166Based on the title, I was expecting the things I grew up calling logic puzzles, which some people call "logic grid" puzzles, e.g. https://www.allstarpuzzles.com/logic/00019.html (note: expired HTTPS certificate, but site doesn't ask for any login or anything, it just displays the puzzles) or https://logic.puzzlebaron.com/ When I was a kid, learning programming, I toyed with writing my own logic-puzzle solver program,…
Good feedback. I do plan on continuing to add other kinds of logic puzzles to the site as time permits. I'll check out those sites!
Re: Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site
#167I would love keyboard shortcuts to toggle (for example) pencil mode, or line/empty mode, and other quality of life improvements so I don't have to keep my mouse in one hand!
Many of them have keyboard shortcuts. usually pencil mode is "P" and eraser is "E" or "backspace/delete". Also, the numbers 1, 2, 3 should work as well. Feel free to email me at ChestertonTechnologies@gmail.com if something isn't working!
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#168My next vacation project is basically this, but as an offline-capable PWA served from a 100% static site. I don't want to install apps for these types of games and I want them to fully function on my phone when I'm offline.
That would be pretty cool!
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#169I see this kind of thing as the future of SaaS. Passionate developers out competing incumbents on both quality and price. One off purchases from "1000 true fans" is enough to make the effort worthwhile. It's a win-win for indie devs and their customers.
For sure! And I know this isn't going to make a bunch of money or anything, but it's made a few bucks to help cover server costs, so that's pretty cool!
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#170Nice puzzles, thanks letting me have a couple of fun minutes with those. In the star battle (at least the medium I played) the solutions are non-unique and there you sometimes make random mistakes, which is a bit annoying. Unless I'm missing something because it's already late, but I'm quite sure.
They should be unique solutions. The way I generate the puzzles requires them to have a unique solution. I've thought I found a couple that were not unique, but then both times, I was missing a cell I could eliminate. But let me know at ChestertonTechnologies@gmail.com with the puzzle number and difficulty if you find one and I'll look into it!