I 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
Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle
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#392Earlier quoted context omitted.
Break? That's just a failure condition as per rules, working as intended
Just needs a reset button then. Having to refresh the page is a bit silly.
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#394Earlier quoted context omitted.
The state I’m referring to is is the whole puzzle state. It’s a confusing term in this case.
Yes, and as I said, the number of puzzle states is the number of nodes in the pictured graph, cubed. There is some relation between the two graphs, but they aren’t the same, and the pictured graph doesn’t necessarily show too clearly how to navigate around between different regions of the graph of game states.
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#396Reminded me a bit of the game Baba Is You
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#397Earlier quoted context omitted.
Rapidly flashing colors may be dangerous for people with epilepsy.
I wonder if it's better for people with epilepsy to have a simple and more robust solution by getting a monitor that has low refresh rate or limited colors than to try to police all the internet and applications from ever showing flashing colors.
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#399It'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…
Shame. Shame. Shame. rings bell
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#400(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…