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Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

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Post by bentcorner »

threecoins wrote: post #290
galangalalgol wrote: post #269

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Only thing I didn't know at first was that I assumed multiple conditions were or instead of and. Also, people are talking about flashing lights? I get to the completion criteria with the dog on the bone and the rabbits on the carrot and the game doesn't end. I can keep playing, no lights. Is there more?

You need to have both rabbits on carrots

It was not obvious to me until the very end that you can have overlapping animals, my gut instinct is to treat this similar to a "wolf/lamb/cabbage" kind of puzzle and keep the dog and rabbits separate.

Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

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Post by swyx »

abrax3141 wrote: post #174

Fun implementation. It’s isomorphic to a wide range of problems that have been used for centuries that are all isomorphic to constrained state search. The fact that the graph is explicit here makes the problem way easier. (One you may be familiar with that seems very similar is the parking problem where by sliding around the cars they (un)block one another. None of this is to take away from the fun setting and implem…

is there a branch of mathematics that formally models this isomorphic forms of this stuff? topology? or just plain old graph theory

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Post by runnerup »

adv0r wrote: post #335
hluska wrote: post #288

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I’m 45 years old and have been staring at it for a very long time without a clue. First off, you’ve raised a wonderful 8 year old and deserve congratulations. Second, is she available for lessons?? :)

36 y/o, same here

34 year old, probably took me 8 minutes

Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

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Post by 7thaccount »

hakank wrote: post #366
7thaccount wrote: post #352

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Awesome! Thanks for popping up and clarifying. For those of us that are not experts, how is this sort of problem generally classified? I've seen others on here say classical planning, but I wasn't sure if that is correct.

I would (also) say that this is a classic planning problem. It's deterministic, observable, static, and discrete.

I appreciate the clarification here. It helps. Thanks!
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