Google I/O '24 Puzzles
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Google I/O '24 Puzzles
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#3Would have been nice if they'd tested it on Safari as well. It's playable, but frustrating enough that you'd switch to Chrome.
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#4On puzzle 5, why is the obvious short solution wrong? The marble reaches the finish line, and then the page says "Something's not right, keep trying!"
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#5There's a "help" popup indicating the existence of keyboard controls. Then, in level two, you have to rotate tiles, for which no control is documented. What gives?
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#6The presentation is nice but the content of the puzzle put me off. I think if you suggest a physical puzzle by presenting it as a rolling ball then you should honor correct physical intuition such that a ball isn't going to turn left by itself as it does in puzzle three. I'm interested in testing my wit, and I am fine with losing, but I am not interested in just finding the correct way to clap like a seal for the puzzle designer.
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#7On puzzle 5, why is the obvious short solution wrong? The marble reaches the finish line, and then the page says "Something's not right, keep trying!"
One unstated rule is that you have to use all pieces. Number three can already be solved with two pieces and that also doesn't count. I strongly dislike this kind of puzzle.
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#8The presentation is nice but the content of the puzzle put me off. I think if you suggest a physical puzzle by presenting it as a rolling ball then you should honor correct physical intuition such that a ball isn't going to turn left by itself as it does in puzzle three. I'm interested in testing my wit, and I am fine with losing, but I am not interested in just finding the correct way to clap like a seal for the puz…
Also the ball starts on a flat surface and then goes uphill(??) in the finish tile.
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#9On puzzle 5, why is the obvious short solution wrong? The marble reaches the finish line, and then the page says "Something's not right, keep trying!"
Hmm, I got the solution it wanted after a lot of trial and error, but I still don't understand why that one was correct
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#10On puzzle 5, why is the obvious short solution wrong? The marble reaches the finish line, and then the page says "Something's not right, keep trying!"
That also happens on an earlier level. The answer appears to be that there is an undocumented requirement to use all of the tiles. I'm not sure why Google appears to believe that documentation is weakness.