Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid • Hacker News Board

nabakin wrote: post #78

Make a daily one where everyone has the same game for the day and you can share your scores and my entire friend group would play along with the other ones we do like Wordle and NYT Mini Crossword. Let me know if you add this!

Agree, this is what can really push it. A daily 5x5 w/ easily shareable scores is the way you can bring this to a lot of people.

Re: Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

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Post by krallja » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 3:01 AM UTC

joeframbach wrote: post #45

boosteri wrote: post #39

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I'd like an opposite option.. where the timer runs out :-) maybe with a neat graphics of water flowing from the bulb starting point(s)

You would enjoy Ant Run, which I played for hours on end in the late 90s. https://www.dosgames.com/game/ant-run . There is a browser-based emulator available here.

I knew this game as Pipe Dream / Pipe Mania!

Re: Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

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Post by top-flight » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 3:12 AM UTC

Cool game. Can you provide an example of what a solution looks like?

Re: Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

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Post by msoucy » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 3:20 AM UTC

Me: "Oh I'm pretty good at Net, this should be easy" Two hours later I finally finish the 40x40.

Thank you and I hate you. I've infected my friends with this.

Also, since we're bragging about scores: 39s for the 5x5 wrapping, but I'll definitely be coming back to this.

Re: Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

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Post by CSMastermind » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 3:21 AM UTC

top-flight wrote: post #97

Cool game. Can you provide an example of what a solution looks like?

Here's an example of a 7x7 one that hopefully doesn't spoil too many people's games: https://i.imgur.com/EkA7he4.png

Re: Show HN: Pipes puzzle (a.k.a. Net) on a hexagonal grid

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Post by kbenson » Tue, Jul 26, 2022, 3:39 AM UTC

culi wrote: post #89

gereleth wrote: post #70

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Mm, middle button, why didn't I think of it. My wrap puzzles show an infinite tiled grid, so there shouldn't be questions about which edge wraps where. There are no edges, tiles just start repeating after a while. Maybe I didn't understand your question about wrapping?

A "click and hold" to lock a tile into place would also be great and mobile accessible

It already does that on mobile. It allows marking edges as connecting or not, and locking tiles with a long press.