This was so fun!
Make one new puzzle a day like Wordle and I'll get addicted for sure :)
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
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My 9 year old got it in about 3 minutes, but only after I told him to slow down and read everything on the page. He started with furious swiping right off the bat. I started by reading everything and thinking through moves in my head without even trying to swipe. I think we ended up solving it in about the same amount of time. Interesting that the rapid iteration method and the measured thoughtful method yielded simi…
I'm surprised you could infer what was possible just by looking at it. For me, the hints at how the rules worked weren't sufficient. I think lighting up the signs if the conditions are met and perhaps having something on the free move edges to make it clear they can be moved on freely would be super helpful. I effectively solved the question of "wtf is this?" and the puzzle at the same time. But after that I really w…
I thought it was an image at first, and was trying to mentally move the pieces on the board. After the state got too complicated I happened to tap on one of the pieces and realized it was interactive.
I've played kinda similar things before, such as Baba is You.
Yeah I'd love to see more of these. Now I wanna make one myself.
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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?
You need to have both rabbits on carrots
Bah, was using darkreader, hurray flash lights!
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#334This puzzle is so cool because it revolves around casual graphs in classical planning problem! One can use heuristics based search to come up with optimal solutions. I really like this innovative approach to the design. However, one edge from house to tree wasn't clear at first because, I thought of it as logical or while it was about logical and. Other than that, pretty awesome work!! Edit:: Scrolling down the comme…
I'd love to see the formulation for this problem written out in proper form that can be fed to a solver like MiniZinc or CPLEX or whatever type of solver can handle it.
It looks like Hakan K (has a super cool website where he solves all kinds of optimization problems for fun) was able to solve it using the Picat language in a very small amount of code with a solution (not sure if optimal):
http://hakank.org/picat/dogbunny_puzzle.pi
His website is a treasure trove for these kinds of problems and worth studying.
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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?? :)
36 y/o, same here
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#336I 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.
Same here. Found it more frustrating than fun for this reason.
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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…
She's a genius[1]. Took me an age to figure out what the rules were and then a fair while to actually get it done. [1]Well compared to me anyway
Actually, that's how children learn best: by breaking shit^W^Wperturbing the environment and observing changes.
This instance of the puzzle is also easy enough to actually solve this way. Wouldn't work nearly as well with 25 nodes, 5 rabbits and 3 dogs...
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I'd love to see the formulation for this problem written out in proper form that can be fed to a solver like MiniZinc or CPLEX or whatever type of solver can handle it.
It looks like Hakan K (has a super cool website where he solves all kinds of optimization problems for fun) was able to solve it using the Picat language in a very small amount of code with a solution (not sure if optimal): http://hakank.org/picat/dogbunny_puzzle.pi His website is a treasure trove for these kinds of problems and worth studying.
The solution is 26 steps and that should be the optimal solution.
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#340Fun 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…
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