I think I was a bit lucky, but solved today's (#8) optimally in a minute or two.
Pretty cool puzzle, reminds me of this: https://blog.plover.com/math/24-puzzle.html
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#72Got very intersted, then lost interest because I couldn't reload and get a new number when I was sure I had taken the wrong path. Is there a feature to start again from a new random number?
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#73I clicked through and then immediately forgot the instructions so I tried to go back to read them. Now the button just says "Come back Tomorrow" and I can't even play. Stopping a person from playing again does only bad things for user experience. Please consider just not doing that instead of doing that.
I think you meant to post in the thread about the emoji game?
You are correct! Thanks!
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#74with this game, you can entirely solve it on paper - which is cool as hell
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#75Inspired 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.
I'd pay good money to play Summle 2.0: Jimmy Carr insults you before you start playing.
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#76nice! 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…
Yeah. I said « le compte est bon » to myself.
I’m not specifically math inclined and I had fun playing.
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#77I found a "normal mode" solution in a couple minutes after some trial/error. But then I spent 10 minutes trying to find a solution in "hard mode" to no avail. I ultimately gave up and wrote a recursive solver in python. Now I feel better about myself and can continue about my day.
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#78I really like this and find it much more engaging than mathler, which is my current favorite (nerdle doesn't really do it for me).
The difficulty levels seem right for my level at least - kids mode was almost instant, regular took a bit of thinking, advanced still has me stumped:(
Please consider a "clear all" button. I know you want to keep the UI simple and that I can refresh the page, but this seems like an omission considering how much trial and error I'm doing on advanced mode.
Also, maybe an "I give up" button, hidden somewhere in a modal. I suspect I'm not going to have time to solve this before the next puzzle comes along, but I still want to know the solution.
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#80I am enjoying this, thank you!