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

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Nice one, finished in about 20 minutes, I think it can be seen as a variation of the classical (don't know the English name) "order the numbers from 1 to 9, whith a blank space", with some extra rules.

By the way, on Firefox/Android a bunny flew away to never return when I was dragging it from the boat.

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

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It took a while, but I got it! It's like the Wolf, goat and cabbage problem https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf,_goat_and_cabbage_problem

You mean the fox, chicken and grain problem? I wonder if this just gets localised to typical staple, typical predator and its prey? I guess cabbage and wolf is eastern Europe / Germany?

Wolf-goat-cabbage is definitely the version which is popular in Poland.

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

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I am completely lost. How do you play this?

Drag animals from one node onto another. Some edges are one-way (marked with an arrow). Some edges are only open when an animal is (or is not) on a certain space, as indicated by the text on that edge. More than one animal may share a node at the same time.

I am on an iPad and there are no animals anywhere on the screen.

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

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I love it. Fantastic. Can you think of a way to re formulate the puzzle so that you can express the rules without words? Also, the dog / rabbit dynamic (as used in the classic dog/duck/grain river crossing puzzle) made me think that I had to chase the rabbits with dog, or that dogs and rabbits couldn’t share a node. Different animals might be better — rabbit and mouse, perhaps? Or even different coloured rabbits and…

>Can you think of a way to re formulate the puzzle so that you can express the rules without words?

I'm imagining Haskell with emojis now.

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

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

It isn't stuck, you lost :) Refresh the page to try again.

Something about "losing" a puzzle doesn't feel right.

Same as putting the wrong letter in a crossword or making 6 wrong guesses in Wordle. Sometimes puzzles have to be started from scratch.
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