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

#125
I love it! I loved this game I used to play one on Android (square version). Told the dev I would even pay for it. It got very popular and then after a while it started to get ads. At that point I uninstalled it.

PS: Make a start button instead of starting on load. Also the other game had a hypnotic looping music. Which could be put off.

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

#126
post #95
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.

Or, a daily 5x5, 7x7, etc. for the true addicts

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

#128
This is fantastic. A true joy to play! I am seconding the suggestion that you make a daily challenge like Wordle, with the feature to share your time and somehow a "masked" solution like Wordle does.

I hope NYTimes buys this from you for lots of money! ;)

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

#129
post #83

Nice I was addicted to this exact game on a mobile app many years ago. Thanks so much for making the source code available! Gonna be fun to dig into it Edit: found the app, https://apps.apple.com/us/app/noodles/id967624193 Looks like they have a sequal to it and it includes a triangle grid!

The app is from the same creator

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

#130
post #120

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Fair enough, I'll think how to word all this.

I think simply having an image of what a solved network looks like would help a lot.

Agreed, I didn’t bother reading the rules and just started clicking. I doubt I would read the rules even if they were written perfectly.
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