Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass
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#2Discussed in 2016: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13259944
Re: Euclidea – Geometric construction game with straightedge and compass
#3I love this game, but I got stack at 1.7, unable to achieve the E star, unviling to give up or seek help :).
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#4I love this game, but I got stack at 1.7, unable to achieve the E star, unviling to give up or seek help :).
The solution will rattle you! At least it did me. I happened to blindly stumble upon it while trying various approaches, but I’d love to know what sort of intuition it takes to find the solution short of brute-forcing/lucky-guessing it.
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#5This is brilliant! What I really want is a list of such mathy games for my 6 year old. I found him a logic gates (XOR, AND, etc) game that he also likes.
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#6I love this game, but I got stack at 1.7, unable to achieve the E star, unviling to give up or seek help :).
Try a stucktrace :)
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#7Looks very similar to Euclid the Game which I enjoyed working my way through many years ago:
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#8This one is also fun, just challenges to create different shapes, and shapes-within shapes in under a certain number of moves -
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#9Am I being stupid? I can't see how to move on past the first puzzle when it's complete.
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#10Is the source code for this game available somewhere to look at?