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

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Post by __s »

BizarroLand wrote: post #58
gowld wrote: post #48

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That's true if the solution is a product, not a sum.

Start with the product solutions, and if nothing seems pliable, start backwards and work with the sum results. For the hard one, 612 is not an easy number to find, but basic math shows that 6+1+2=9 so the number is divisible by 3 (and I won't go any farther to prevent spoiling it) Finding a system by which you create the situations that allow the operands and factors to be discovered while also flexing your basic mat…

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

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Post by kirchhoff »

maps7 wrote: post #60

#Summle #7: 3/5 = = = This did not come naturally for me. Spent about 30 mins on it. After a long time, I opened my calc app and worked backwords. From there it only took a few mins.. EDIT: hints might be nice to make it more wordle like

Today's puzzle was difficult I admit. It's tough to find a balance, I'm still working on it!

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

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Post by BizarroLand »

__s wrote: post #61
BizarroLand wrote: post #58

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Start with the product solutions, and if nothing seems pliable, start backwards and work with the sum results. For the hard one, 612 is not an easy number to find, but basic math shows that 6+1+2=9 so the number is divisible by 3 (and I won't go any farther to prevent spoiling it) Finding a system by which you create the situations that allow the operands and factors to be discovered while also flexing your basic mat…

re 612, gjryir unf znal snpgbef fb fvk gvzrf uhaqerq znxrf sbe n avpr erznvavat qvfgnapr

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

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Post by lloeki »

AStrangeMorrow wrote: post #38
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...

Yup I immediately thought about the numbers challenge in that French show I watched as a kid

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

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Post by main_gi »

Well hello. I was in the middle of making a game with a very similar premise lol, apparently a few of those are around, but I do think the Countdown gameplay of 6 numbers is 'too difficult', you can't make poor guesses and still win like in Wordle.

How does the "app" feature work? Was it easy to make (given a static site)?

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

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Post by kirchhoff »

main_gi wrote: post #65

Well hello. I was in the middle of making a game with a very similar premise lol, apparently a few of those are around, but I do think the Countdown gameplay of 6 numbers is 'too difficult', you can't make poor guesses and still win like in Wordle. How does the "app" feature work? Was it easy to make (given a static site)?

To make the site work as an 'app' you just need it to conform to the PWA (Progressive Web App) guidelines, and handle the install prompt. There's a good guide here:

https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

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

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Post by main_gi »

kirchhoff wrote: post #66
main_gi wrote: post #65

Well hello. I was in the middle of making a game with a very similar premise lol, apparently a few of those are around, but I do think the Countdown gameplay of 6 numbers is 'too difficult', you can't make poor guesses and still win like in Wordle. How does the "app" feature work? Was it easy to make (given a static site)?

To make the site work as an 'app' you just need it to conform to the PWA (Progressive Web App) guidelines, and handle the install prompt. There's a good guide here: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/Progressive_web...

Nice, thank you. That's a nice feature that I didn't know about.

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

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Post by main_gi »

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 ?…

^ seems like it would get spaghetti fast - multiplication's already not easy to visualize and something like 12^6 which involves two numbers that are 'low' by the game's standards, becomes a ridiculously high number. I mean might as well add some other operations if you'll do that right?

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

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Post by lloeki »

nice! instant throwback to childhood watching Des Chiffres et des Lettres on TV

a bit of feedback, can you make it so that if you type an operation on the first block of a line it takes the last result as the first item and fills the op as the second item?

the thing that trips me up playing is thinking like:

"50 plus 3 is 53, minus 7 is 46, times 3 is 138"

so I'd type 5 + 3 - 7... i.e I press the operation right away instead of typing the last result before the op... oddly frustrating! and I keep on doing it over and over again!

oh, and I second the request to clear the board, reloading just doesn't cut it: it's a full, slow enough RTT to the server that I type on all inputs to clear them up instead. plus when added to the home screen as a web app on iOS there's no way to reload except killing the app... a bit frustrating also!

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