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I've never come across 2 indexing. Is it meant to avoid off by one errors? Pointer arithmetic might be interesting though.
1 is already done, isn’t it?
I don't know, it hasn't being listed, neither has 0.
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
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Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#122It doesn't work. Especially on mobile.
This is one of the least useful bug reports I have ever seen. You could at least have reported your browser and operating system.
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#123The labels as required preconditions take a moment to figure out, but I found it satisfying to do so.
I'm a sucker for graph and topology puzzles, so this was very enjoyable to me. I loved that you could clearly sense progress mounting with each step.
The flashing lights at the end could use a bit of calming down though.
Fantastic prototype, is what this smells like : p
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#124I thought I had to keep the dog and rabbits separate, which really stumped me for a bit. It would be neat if the conditional statements emphasized and deemphasized based on whether their condition was currently met.
How do I interact with the website? It's just a static image for me
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#125Great game
I agree i don't think i have seen constraint as a game quite like this before
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#126I'm convinced there is only one way to solve this: Write a program to unroll the constrained state transition diagram into an unconditional state transition diagram and find the shortest path. The unrolled version would still be pretty small so you can just iterate over it.
That's an interesting statement. Because I actually don't think it's true.
(Well obviously it's not and you were joking, but let's say you were not, for the sake of argument.)
Humans do this differently from machines. We look for strategies and have smarts to on-the-fly develop and refine heuristics that rapidly allow us to intuitively do branch-and-bound like algorithms and in the end solve this even though we brute force very litte, if at all.
That's why it took so long for machines to surpass us at chess or similar. It's a different approach. That's what makes machines better at certain things and humans at others. And there is a lot to be gained by trying to have machines also try human-like approaches to problems (strategy-developing rather than brute force).
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#127I thought I had to keep the dog and rabbits separate, which really stumped me for a bit. It would be neat if the conditional statements emphasized and deemphasized based on whether their condition was currently met.
How do I interact with the website? It's just a static image for me
On mobile Firefox for me after a while I worked out it was drag and drop on the characters
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#128Nice puzzle!
It would be nice to show how many steps were taken to solve it.
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#129I love it. Fantastic. Can you think of a way to re formulate the puzzle so that you can express the rules without words? Also, the dog / rabbit dynamic (as used in the classic dog/duck/grain river crossing puzzle) made me think that I had to chase the rabbits with dog, or that dogs and rabbits couldn’t share a node. Different animals might be better — rabbit and mouse, perhaps? Or even different coloured rabbits and…
>Can you think of a way to re formulate the puzzle so that you can express the rules without words? I'm imagining Haskell with emojis now.
Why imagine it? It is already possible :P
https://gist.github.com/Erk-/be3ef032d31734b6f835edd9a9685af...
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#130I thought I had to keep the dog and rabbits separate, which really stumped me for a bit. It would be neat if the conditional statements emphasized and deemphasized based on whether their condition was currently met.
How do I interact with the website? It's just a static image for me
I’m on iPhone but it’s just tap-and-drag for me