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Show HN: A daily covering-walk puzzle where mowing direction matters

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Post by jpohalloran »

Every time I mow the lawn, I play this mental game in my head where I try and mow the lawn as efficiently as possible (while minding where I'm shooting the grass clippings).

Well, I decided to turn this little mental puzzle, into a daily game.

Enjoy!

Show HN: A daily covering-walk puzzle where mowing direction matters
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Post by vunderba »

Nice job. I remember playing a top-down 2d game in the early [00]s with a similar premise but it was real-time.

You had a limited amount of gas so you still had to optimize your route to finish as quickly as possible without retracing your steps. It had various obstacles/powerups/etc sort of in the form of something like Paper Boy.

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Post by jpohalloran »

vunderba wrote: post #2

Nice job. I remember playing a top-down 2d game in the early [00]s with a similar premise but it was real-time. You had a limited amount of gas so you still had to optimize your route to finish as quickly as possible without retracing your steps. It had various obstacles/powerups/etc sort of in the form of something like Paper Boy.

Oh nice!! I'd be curious to try that! I did consider a few different iterations of this, and one was similar in that you'd have limited gas.
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