When two of something are on the same tile, I think you need a different image - or to add some kind of stacking visual or something
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
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#312It's beautiful! Looks like the optimal solution is 26 steps: https://github.com/polkerty/dog-bunny-puzzle-solver
Nice. I tried to fuzz this rather than use an exhaustive search. So random animals walk randomly. It gets stuck. So I added if no animal moves after 100 attempts, restart. But it seems to get stuck all the time. So it loops around mostly and eventually falls to the stuck position. I have to think about this, is the entropy such that you'll never practically escape by randomly walking? I feel like if I add more condit…
I think if you refuse to duplicate states you'll get the solution pretty quickly.
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#313Earlier quoted context omitted.
Having a knack for these, I found these "lack" of hints (understanding goal, covered tiles, no precondition failed) to be part of the game, and making deduction/memory work for it. There was just enough for me to understand it. Had these hints been there I'd have been bored rather quickly.
Only thing I didn't know at first was that I assumed multiple conditions were or instead of and. Also, people are talking about flashing lights? I get to the completion criteria with the dog on the bone and the rabbits on the carrot and the game doesn't end. I can keep playing, no lights. Is there more?
> I assumed multiple conditions were or instead of and
Same, so I tried, and it was very obvious that it didn't work, so, and. Discovering that was, to me, part of the whole experience that makes it rewarding.
Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
#314Fun implementation. It’s isomorphic to a wide range of problems that have been used for centuries that are all isomorphic to constrained state search. The fact that the graph is explicit here makes the problem way easier. (One you may be familiar with that seems very similar is the parking problem where by sliding around the cars they (un)block one another. None of this is to take away from the fun setting and implem…
The graph drawn here is different from the graph of states: the latter has the cube of the number of these graph nodes, and several edges per node, and would be difficult to draw clearly on a flat paper.
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#315Earlier quoted context omitted.
Thank you.. As fun as it was to solve the simple puzzle, nothing will replace the joy I felt when I showed it to my 8 year old daughter to see her solve it in 2 minutes flat with no instruction at all. Thank you for making it possible. I had to ask her to persist for a bit as she didn't exactly see what had to be done. She knew what had to be done once she accidentally swiped and saw to rabbit get dragged along. May…
I’m 45 years old and have been staring at it for a very long time without a clue. First off, you’ve raised a wonderful 8 year old and deserve congratulations. Second, is she available for lessons?? :)
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#3161. The animal icons didn't show up for me until I refreshed the page a few times. (Edge, Windows 10)
2. Would help to say "Somebody at bone AND Somebody at flower". I first interpreted it as OR and thought it was broken when it wouldn't let me move.
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#317I found a state with no legal moves within my first handful of moves - everything on sailboat is irrecoverable. Cool game!
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#318It's a state machine, so it is probably easier for programmers to solve than non-programmers. It's basically a debugging puzzle. :) How about a bigger one? Or a random generator?
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#319I don't like how the thing I have to move covers up the things I have to look at. Lost interest pretty quick because of this, but it seems like it would be pretty easy to put the moving thing next to the symbol or something.
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#320holy shit that was hard