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Re: Game about squares

#131

Really liked the game, but I'm colorblind and it blocked me on level 20: I can't tell which square should go on which circle ( http://imgur.com/CX7XWJ4 ). I genuinely played that level as if the two bottom squares were the same. Maybe you could add another differentiator, like a different shape.

I am colorblind too, but I solved level 20. I just assumed there were two of the same color. It sounds like I lucked out.. Level 21 however is being a pain.

Level 21 is impossible indeed :)

Re: Game about squares

#132
This is a really elegant game. Kudos to the designer. It's quite admirable. It has a life/death property like Go: the game seems to be about recognizing which configurations are dead and avoiding them.

Re: Game about squares

#133
This game is fun, and cute, I like it.

One problem with puzzles of this type though, the structure of the problem leads to the solution. If you simply play with the mechanism for re-ordering boxes, you can 'brute force' the solution fairly easily.

Re: Game about squares

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post #114

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Are you from the US? I'm from the UK and I really liked the comments too. I really find that people from the US are more likely to dislike humour in this kind of game. Especially Californians.

Ever notice how people from the UK tend to generalize in a condescending way that only really serves to highlight their backward, provincial attitudes? Sort of like this?

It's a cultural difference I have noticed across a lot of copy evaluations. But you chaps sure seem sensitive about it.

Re: Game about squares

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From level 25 forward ( minus 26, spirals seem to be easy to simulate for my brain ) it's a fascinating example of how your subconscious bruteforces.. I managed to finish 25 and 27 but I honestly have no idea how I did it and if I had to do it again it'd take a while. I was wondering, for you guys out there that went past 25, were you able to visualise how the puzzle worked and plan out the moves or did you try diffe…

Got all 35 - I did brute forcing with a few rules:

1) Don't worry about the colors at all, because you can usually shuffle them around to get the right order.

2) If there's a particularly cute combo, it's probably part of the solution.

3) Work out the most likely last few moves, going backwards from a winning position.

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