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Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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I made this game for my children to play, as they are heavily into Wordle, and I thought they'd also like something maths based!

Every puzzle is solvable and has at least one solution (usually more).

There is a kids mode in the settings, plus a hard mode for extra difficulty.

Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle
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Nice one and an interesting twist from the classic Wordle. If I may one small suggestion, please add a clear and/or backspace button. Like the buttons present on most real calculators: CE (current entry), C (clear), AC (all clear). I know that you can click on an occupied cell and clear it, but backspace is more convenient :-)

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Nice one and an interesting twist from the classic Wordle. If I may one small suggestion, please add a clear and/or backspace button. Like the buttons present on most real calculators: CE (current entry), C (clear), AC (all clear). I know that you can click on an occupied cell and clear it, but backspace is more convenient :-)

Thanks. The backspace is something I considered, but it would have to function more like an undo button. You can refresh the page (or click the logo) to clear all the cells.

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Inspired by Countdown? Been a while but don't they have 6 numbers? Might be nice to allow users to choose "2 big and 4 small" as well.

Indeed. Everything old is new again. There should be 6 numbers - perhaps one is cut off. Are you on mobile?

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> I made this game for my children to play

Mathematician here. It's fun, but it's quite hard! How old are your children?

[spoiler alert?]

I finally solved it in 4 steps. It needs a lot of backtracking planning. I has to guess which will be the last expression and try to reach the numbers that it used.

I don't play too much Wordle, but my approach was just trying to find a word that is not to stupid (like reusing a lot of letters that are already grey) and just hopping that that the new info will make the next step easier.

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> I made this game for my children to play Mathematician here. It's fun, but it's quite hard! How old are your children? [spoiler alert?] I finally solved it in 4 steps. It needs a lot of backtracking planning. I has to guess which will be the last expression and try to reach the numbers that it used. I don't play too much Wordle, but my approach was just trying to find a word that is not to stupid (like reusing a lo…

There is a kids mode in the settings. Today's one is hard, I must admit (though it can be done in 3 steps) - they did well when I was testing the site!
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