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Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by kirchhoff » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 4:31 PM UTC

dxbydt wrote: post #25

Quite hard dude! I'm still going at it. Once you put down an equation like 100x3=300, your mind becomes committed to it...which biases your future choices & quickly leads you down the wrong path. Awesome game. Pls compile stats on average solve time. I'd be interested to know how long it takes to solve the daily summle on average (aka how dumb am I compared to rest of population ) You have +,-, * ,/. But no ^. Why ?…

I wanted to keep it to operators everyone would understand, though it would be interesting to use exponents!

I am only recording successful attempts, which for the regular puzzle is around 33% so far today. I might compile stats on solve time too.

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by kirchhoff » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 4:35 PM UTC

MandieD wrote: post #29

Love it - did both the regular and the hard mode. You should add a fiendish mode!

Thank you. I do actually have another mode planned!

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by latortuga » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 4:42 PM UTC

I got the answer on the first try in 5 steps but I felt like I was a bit lucky. Reminds me of playing 24 and Krypto.

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by ed_db » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 5:02 PM UTC

Pretty fun, few comments 1) The Share Results currently includes a few spoilers as it shows that the player has included the result of one of the previous steps. This makes it considerably easier for someone to get the answer. https://imgur.com/a/frGcWtL

2) It does not appear to remember your game if you close the browser and return as wordle does. The solution you entered is then hidden. https://imgur.com/a/IEFRFnT

it would be nice to be able to get back to this screen once you've completed it even if you close the browser https://imgur.com/a/DDkF7On

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by kirchhoff » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 5:07 PM UTC

ed_db wrote: post #34

Pretty fun, few comments 1) The Share Results currently includes a few spoilers as it shows that the player has included the result of one of the previous steps. This makes it considerably easier for someone to get the answer. https://imgur.com/a/frGcWtL 2) It does not appear to remember your game if you close the browser and return as wordle does. The solution you entered is then hidden. https://imgur.com/a/IEFRFnT…

Thanks. The 'share results' grid is about as minimal as I can make it without it being devoid of information!

The reset upon completion is intentional, as there is (usually) more than one solution to be found. For the purposes of stats recording, only the first successful attempt is registered.

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by akerr » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 5:26 PM UTC

Nice work! The Countdown model works well for this format. Best maths Wordle variant I’ve seen so far. The video really helped to see what to do (minor point: had to scroll down to see numbers on my phone). Did feel a little cheated when my iteration was locked in as a solution and I could immediately see an improvement!

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by kirchhoff » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 5:39 PM UTC

akerr wrote: post #36

Nice work! The Countdown model works well for this format. Best maths Wordle variant I’ve seen so far. The video really helped to see what to do (minor point: had to scroll down to see numbers on my phone). Did feel a little cheated when my iteration was locked in as a solution and I could immediately see an improvement!

Thanks for the feedback. Re: the scrolling issue - can I ask which device?

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by AStrangeMorrow » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 5:41 PM UTC

smallerfish wrote: post #6

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.

That's what I thought of too. Even though Countdown is kind of the UK version of the longer running French game https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Des_chiffres_et_des_lettres#Nu...

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by soneca » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 5:53 PM UTC

gus_massa wrote: post #9

> 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…

I found it hard to. But it didn’t plan, I was going kind of trial and error. I found this 4 steps solution after certainly more than 50 tries

Re: Show HN: I made a little math game named Summle

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Post by cmeacham98 » Fri, Mar 04, 2022, 6:01 PM UTC

Consider a mode with limited uses of the operations too. I liked it, but I thought both normal and hard modes were too easy given I didn't have to think about what operation I was going to use at all.