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Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

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post #41

It doesn't work. Especially on mobile.

Must be a very rare browser, it works very well on Brave (mobile). Also, it is always more helpful to state the actual issue.

Solved it on mobile, but no signal that game was finished. On Firefox (android) here.

Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

#49
post #26

It's got too many rules for a puzzle imo. It does take an overly long time to figure out how it works.

Took me less than 60 seconds. I'd say it's a perfect little puzzle. Next one you encounter you know the rules. I'd argue 2048 is harder to learn and that was a popular game.

I actually thought 60 seconds was a bit too long. An easy to understand puzzle is probably more intuitive and < 15-20 secs from start/enough not to notice it took time.

Re: Show HN: I may have created a new type of puzzle

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I love it. Fantastic. Can you think of a way to re formulate the puzzle so that you can express the rules without words? Also, the dog / rabbit dynamic (as used in the classic dog/duck/grain river crossing puzzle) made me think that I had to chase the rabbits with dog, or that dogs and rabbits couldn’t share a node. Different animals might be better — rabbit and mouse, perhaps? Or even different coloured rabbits and…

> Also, the dog / rabbit dynamic (as used in the classic dog/duck/grain river crossing puzzle) made me think that I had to chase the rabbits with dog, or that dogs and rabbits couldn’t share a node.

Yes, I assumed first that no two animals could share a node at all until I was near the end (and saw that it would be necessary), and I still assumed that rabbits and the dog couldn't share a node ("the dog will eat the rabbit!") because of the river crossing thing, until someone in this very comment thread mentioned an unsolvable state that involved getting the dog a rabbit on the same node.

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