Did you change the rules after posting it here? It seems like they are more chaotic now (and I like it).
2048 Numberwang
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Re: 2048 Numberwang
#92C:\> TWENTY48 Loading... Ready. You are in a darkened room. On the floor in front of you are sixteen tiles, arranged in a grid. The tiles are labelled A1, A2, A3, A4, B1 and so on up to D4. There is a two here, on tile A1. There is a two here, on tile D3. > GET ALL The numbers appear too strongly glued to the tiles. > INVENTORY You have a copy of On Lisp by Paul Graham, a thing your Aunt gave you that you don't know…
I give it until tomorrow before we see a text-adventure-based version of 2048
Re: 2048 Numberwang
#93For those unfamiliar: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qjOZtWZ56lc
It makes slightly more sense when you understand the context: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI
Is there a general name for the kind of problem the contestants try to solve in that round of the show? I've encountered variants of it "in the wild" in a game we played at university. People would challenge each other to place arithmetic operators and parentheses between the digits of the serial number printed on bus tickets to get the number 100, with some variations. Despite playing this game for quite a bit I never learned any name for it or the problem it used; I asked other people who played it and nobody knew one, either.
Googling around finds the exact question on Programmers SE (https://programmers.stackexchange.com/questions/213924/name-...) but no answer.
Re: 2048 Numberwang
#94C:\> TWENTY48 Loading... Ready. You are in a darkened room. On the floor in front of you are sixteen tiles, arranged in a grid. The tiles are labelled A1, A2, A3, A4, B1 and so on up to D4. There is a two here, on tile A1. There is a two here, on tile D3. > GET ALL The numbers appear too strongly glued to the tiles. > INVENTORY You have a copy of On Lisp by Paul Graham, a thing your Aunt gave you that you don't know…
I give it until tomorrow before we see a text-adventure-based version of 2048
I'd do it tonight if I didn't already have plans
Re: 2048 Numberwang
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#96Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mornington Crescent!
Do HN users outside of the UK get the surreality and humour of this entire conversation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game) You can tell it's currently morning in the UK and night-time in the USA.
I'm about a mile away from Mornington Crescent station, and I still have no idea what's going on.
Re: 2048 Numberwang
#97"maths quiz show that’s simply everyone" Huh?
It's a quote from Numberwang Episode 2: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zJDu5D_IXbc&feature=youtu.be&...
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#99Earlier quoted context omitted.
Ditto. They've actually been pissing me off since it seems like Threes is getting shorted by 2048. But this was great. I managed to get 11032 before I lost. Just making a rules engine that could deduce Numberwang along is an incredible accomplishment.
you do realize the games still the same as 2048 right? just look at the colors of the tiles. the only thing randomized is the numbers on the tiles
Yeah. But the sense of humor from Numberwang makes it more than a "look I just stole someone else's idea" clone, gives it it's own personality.
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#100Earlier quoted context omitted.
Mornington Crescent!
Do HN users outside of the UK get the surreality and humour of this entire conversation? http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mornington_Crescent_(game) You can tell it's currently morning in the UK and night-time in the USA.
Well, I was dying to find out what numberwang and then I realised it's a joke.