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Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

#112
First: you've built a great game that quickly earned a spot in my daily rotation, congrats and thank you!

Second: when sharing my results with friends via text, the fully-qualified URL in the results causes it to send 2 texts (1 with how I did and another linking to the site). Other games seem to have gotten around this by removing the protocol from the URL; would you be open to doing the same?

No big deal either way, just a potential weird quirk / quality of life improvement I thought I'd call out!

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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post #113

How would you teach someone to be better at this game?

I think this is a excellent question that I haven't been asked before. I don't have a great answer, as I don't consider myself to be particularly great at solving these puzzles. Some of my friends are consistently better (fewer tries, faster) than I am. I've noticed that I find important patterns and key moves more quickly now after playing so many of them, but sometimes I still get stumped. Often I realize that I make an assumption about a large group needing to be cleared at once, but the solution hinges on intentionally breaking up the large group to make something else happen a move or two later. I think it's really fun to learn these types of things by experience, so my main suggestion—if you find it fun and not too frustrating—is to approach each puzzle with an open mind and don't get too attached to any single moves that you believe to be correct. Finally, you've probably noticed that you're often left with the same one or two tiles when you run out of moves. Try to think ahead and see if there are ways to connect that tile to another one earlier. Good luck!

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

#115

The fun for me in these sort of puzzles is writing a little solver, so here's mine https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/a56bde5b7ea0e6fe1531584851... Interesting problem. And a big thank you for taking color vision deficiency into account. I love seeing puzzles like this that I can interact with. I'd just ask you consider keyboard input in the future.

Keyboard navigation is fixed now. Tab to move around and Enter to clear.

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

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post #115

The fun for me in these sort of puzzles is writing a little solver, so here's mine https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/a56bde5b7ea0e6fe1531584851... Interesting problem. And a big thank you for taking color vision deficiency into account. I love seeing puzzles like this that I can interact with. I'd just ask you consider keyboard input in the future.

Keyboard navigation is fixed now. Tab to move around and Enter to clear.

Nice! Thanks a ton!

Re: Show HN: Figure is a daily logic puzzle game

#117
This is a really cool puzzle game! The gravity / solvable approach creates loads of innovation space! Figure is a cool example of this!

"Small" puzzle games are just fascinating!

I'm in the same boat as you - did LOGIQ as a side project - somehow similar to Figure, and then again. It's online here; https://puzzles.dk. In LOGIQ I generate the puzzle on the phone, e.g., every player is solving different puzzles.

Anyway - really cool work crafting Figure!

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