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Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by MilnerRoute »

I played it and it was fun.

Wordle (and some other games) do a mandatory pop-up of the instructions just to make sure first-timers understand the rules. This game didn't -- I see now that there's a small question mark at the upper left -- but "clear everything", and then seeing that things disappeared when I clicked on them, was kind of enough. If I really thought about it, I might even say that was part of the fun for me -- figuring out the rules of the system and considering what strategy to use.

I wonder if that could be part of the game -- like on some days, "gravity flows to the right", like the view of the puzzle has been tilted by 90 degrees. (And some days it's up?) Or maybe you can rotate the puzzle by 90 degrees -- so you can transform the right or left side column into the crucial bottom row. Maybe a mystery square, that doesn't have a color or is all colors or switches colors with each click?

Anyways, this game was fun, and had a nice-looking interface. Glad you had fun building it. (Someone once asked me how to monetize a side project, and I said "add it to your portfolio and use it to land a high-paying job.")

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by marchelzo »

feanaro wrote: post #58
marchelzo wrote: post #46

Neat game. I was bored so I wrote a little brute-force solver in my toy language. Takes almost a minute to solve today's puzzle though: http://paste.pr0.tips/hgs

Your language feels Haskellish, with some Rust-like syntax and mutation thrown in. Were those languages inspiration?

They were :) Before I took the time to write a vim syntax file I just used the Rust one with a couple of tweaks and the syntax was close enough that it sort of worked.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by t_mann »

bilater wrote: post #70

Nicely done! I like these sort of simple UI games. Built one myself using Next.js + Tailwind CSS: https://www.puzzlingtiles.xyz/

fyi, when I try to move a tile in your puzzle, it opens the image in the browser instead. if i click back in the browser, it loads a new puzzle.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by crazygringo »

jrh206 wrote: post #4

11 moves felt like too many. I made my first moves without thinking ahead, and before I knew it, I’d accidentally solved the puzzle on my first try. I felt that the puzzle lacked that elegant “idea” at its core that makes a good puzzle great. (Just my personal opinion) That said, the visual design is beautiful, and it’s inspiring that somebody was able to create this.

Either you got really lucky or I'm really dumb :) -- because it took me a solid 6 attempts to solve the game. No matter what I started with, I always had 1 piece left over on all previous 5 attempts.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by t_mann »

O__________O wrote: post #55
3bproblem wrote: post #54

This game was fun enough that I could see there being some real money to be made here if you play it right, good luck! https://www.nytimes.com/2022/01/31/business/media/new-york-t...

Wordle’s growth peaked shortly after it was bought for 1 million by the New York Times at roughly $3 per user. - To see the decline, here are some links: https://trends.google.com/trends/explore?q=wordle - Look at the decline of tweets per day found here: https://mobile.twitter.com/WordleStats

Frankly, the decline looks less bad than I'd expected, given how short my own appreciation and of those in my bubble lasted. Google searches are still at ~50% of peak volume (not going to log in to Twitter just to view the thread). Also, Wordle is fun enough that I can see it having a renaissance at some later point (look at Rubik's cubes - the initial boom lasted for 1-2 years, but they're still popular four decades later).

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by Kaibeezy »

rsaz wrote: post #10
hackerlight wrote: post #6

Amazing, but how can I play previous ones ?? I could sit here for an hour playing them but was done in a few minutes.

This is partially the point of the recent wave of daily games spurred by wordle. You can only play today’s puzzle, so you’ll have to return to the site every day to try new ones. In fact I don’t think I’ve seen any that allow you to play past day’s puzzles.

There were a couple of sites that archive and let you play previous Wordle puzzles, unless NYT has lawyered them.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by t_mann »

crazygringo wrote: post #74
jrh206 wrote: post #4

11 moves felt like too many. I made my first moves without thinking ahead, and before I knew it, I’d accidentally solved the puzzle on my first try. I felt that the puzzle lacked that elegant “idea” at its core that makes a good puzzle great. (Just my personal opinion) That said, the visual design is beautiful, and it’s inspiring that somebody was able to create this.

Either you got really lucky or I'm really dumb :) -- because it took me a solid 6 attempts to solve the game. No matter what I started with, I always had 1 piece left over on all previous 5 attempts.

today's puzzle? I find it hard to fail unless I explicilty try. I can see but two dependencies in there (you need to connect the diamonds on the left and the circles on the right), and both are very easy to spot (one of them you're very likely to resolve even if you just click around).

Edit: ok, there are a few more dependencies, but they really easily resolve on their own.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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Post by paulgb »

sumul wrote: post #64
paulgb wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

That stuck out to me as well, given the mention of free tiers on other services. The .game TLD's rates are unfortunately prohibitive for side project games. .games is affordable, though.

Fair point. I mention the free tiers because I found it to be really low friction to start building without worrying about the pricing of every little service and platform (I did make sure the paid tiers weren't going to be a huge issue or surprise once I was ready to graduate). I'm willing to invest a bit in side projects once they get to a certain point of maturity and have the potential to maybe pay for themselves…

Makes sense, thanks!
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