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

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This is brilliant, but impossible to learn how to beat on Hard mode without programming brute-force recursion. Even when we factorize the target number and its neighbors.

a) Can you publish daily solutions to yesterday's problems? I'd really like to see the solution to #8-Hard (1,6,7,7,50,100 Target: 875)

b) Can you add links to archived previous problems?

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

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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…

> 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 ended up creating a mental factorization table of the target number with only the available numbers as factors. That pretty "quickly" lead to a solution in only three steps. I put the "quickly" in scare quotes because I essentially brute forced the problem.

I'm pretty sure this is the only way to solve it (factorization table). I don't see how else?
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