Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

Post by nuancebydefault » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 8:18 PM UTC

Operyl wrote: post #304

disantlor wrote: post #244

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I thought there was no solution because I thought the arrow pointing on the line from the flower meant you could only go that direction from the flower, but the solution relies on someone behind able to move backwards from the flower. Granted there is the blue feedback if you are on the flower, but it’s confusing when you are trying to plan ahead. edit: Fun puzzle though!

Oh. I solved it by following the arrows, didn’t know I could go the other way.

Post by marcodiego » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 8:20 PM UTC

soheil wrote: post #265

Shounak wrote: post #224

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Another quick reward effect you could do to avoid flashing colors is to make the animals jump up and down, as if they’re happy to get their food

I liked the insanely rapidly flashing colors.

Post by jaredsohn » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 8:28 PM UTC

marcodiego wrote: post #344

mudrockbestgirl wrote: post #18

I'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.

This can be easily solved by a class of algorithms called "search algorithms". Most famous ones are "Breadth-first search" and "Depth-first search". They have many variations like "Depth limited depth-first search" and "Iterative deepening depth-first search". If you include heuristics, then you have other variations like "A " and "Iterative deepening A ". These are pretty well known and relatively easy to implement.

Post by SamBam » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 8:32 PM UTC

disantlor wrote: post #244

drcode wrote: post #175

(author here) Great feedback! Yes, I am the "Land of Lisp" guy Sorry about the potential epilepsy trigger- that was the fastest way I could think of to code a quick "reward effect", I will do something different in the next version. I didn't really expect anyone to care enough to solve the puzzle lol. Now that I know people like the puzzle, I will build out the website and post regular puzzles, follow my Twitter @lis…

I thought there was no solution because I thought the arrow pointing on the line from the flower meant you could only go that direction from the flower, but the solution relies on someone behind able to move backwards from the flower. Granted there is the blue feedback if you are on the flower, but it’s confusing when you are trying to plan ahead. edit: Fun puzzle though!

Post by kotenshu » Sun, Sep 18, 2022, 8:33 PM UTC

jacobolus wrote: post #139

Buttons840 wrote: post #52

Feedback: 1. It was good enough that I finished. This is success! Good job! 2. It took me too long to realize characters could occupy the same space, and the game doesn't draw characters occupying the same space very well. 3. The flashing lights at the end are too fast, slow them way down and it will still look good. You'll probably only have to change a number in your code.

I found this particular puzzle pretty easy, but I have a lot of experience with puzzles (recently because my kid likes them). If you want to train novices up to solve very difficult puzzles of this style (or whatever style), start with very simple puzzles and build your way up in a sequence of steadily increasing difficulty, introducing only about one new trick at a time.