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If you'd like "easy mode," such that the queen's squares are highlighted: ((sq) => { let board = document.querySelector('div.m-auto'); sq.forEach(s => board.querySelector('[data-squareid="'+s+'"]').style.backgroundColor='red'); })(["d8", "d7", "d6", "d4", "d3", "d2", "d1", "e6", "f7", "g8", "c6", "b7", "a8", "c5", "b5", "a5", "e5", "f5", "g5", "h5", "c4", "b3", "a2", "e4", "f3", "g2", "h1"]) I found that to be the mi…
If you'd like "easy mode," such that the queen's squares are highlighted: ((sq) => { let board = document.querySelector('div.m-auto'); sq.forEach(s => board.querySelector('[data-squareid="'+s+'"]').style.backgroundColor='red'); })(["d8", "d7", "d6", "d4", "d3", "d2", "d1", "e6", "f7", "g8", "c6", "b7", "a8", "c5", "b5", "a5", "e5", "f5", "g5", "h5", "c4", "b3", "a2", "e4", "f3", "g2", "h1"]) I found that to be the mi…
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Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
Just curious, what exactly did you think "in order, right to left, top to bottom" was supposed to mean?
There's no hint in the help that you're suppose to goto the tile coordinate specified by the little box in the bottom left corner. I'm not even technically sure that's what the "f8" at the beginning is for since the help doesn't mention it.
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Have to raise my hand then to shock you.. what else should the coordinate that is also indicated on the axes mean? > to every square in order, right to left, top to bottom Added to that immediately. shrug But yeah as the title says, one realizes quickly that knight moves pretty strange so got bored after 5 targets and did something more exciting: wrote a Python script that prints me the moves from and to any coordina…
Have to raise my hand then to shock you.. what else should the coordinate that is also indicated on the axes mean? Yeah, but it's not clear that the instructions text is talking about that symbol, *because it doesn't say so* explicitly. Sometimes a small level of information redundancy is good for communicating with humans, instead of forcing them to make the correct inferences in place.
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Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
Just curious, what exactly did you think "in order, right to left, top to bottom" was supposed to mean?
I think the instructions should be: Move to the square indicated below the board without moving to a square the queen can capture and without capturing the queen. Once accomplished a new square will be indicated. Repeat until all possible squares are done.
Kind of makes you appreciate the amount of work most games put into UI design. This game mechanic is very simple and it still needed documentation... And the documentation wasn't enough! Immensely complex games these days are so good at providing hints and player feedback that many often don't need their tutorial levels.
Once you can visualize the knights graph in your head, you just have to run Dijsktra in your head.
3:27 on 2nd try once I realized we have to move the knight to non attacked squares from top right to left bottom
At first I thought I had to implement the knights walk by myself so wasted about 30 seconds on understanding the instructions.
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It depends upon what you are trying to visualize. If you are trying to visualize the pattern of the knight's moves, e.g. how to reach a specific square using a sequence of moves, then highlighting the target would be more valuable. The displacement matters, not the absolute positions. The absolute positions are more of a hindrance since it makes it more difficult to generalize the sequence of moves.
The point is learning to generalize the sequence of moves, and that's why it doesn't give any visual cue.
The interesting part is finding the knight trajectory, reading the notation is boring and easy.
(If the point of the exercise was to read the notation, it should be a different game, like clicking that square as fast as possible.)