Oh hey, I made a game

[FoJaR]

Re: Oh hey, I made a game

Having to re-click the same box to move it multiple times is a bit frustrating. Would be nice if it stayed selected until you select something else or click outside to deselect everything.

+1

if you want to avoid double moves add an undo

[25thhour]

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Couldn't get the first level. gave up

[Hakulyte]

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I spent 30 min trying to do:

741
852
963

instead of

123
456
789

Gotta love reading instructions too quickly.

I would have never figured out you could do a 3x3 square if someone didn't say it in the thread too. It wasn't my first reflex to select twice/double click the top left corner.

Interesting game actually, will give it a more serious try later on.

[Guest15937]

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The tutorial puzzle is solved by rotating a 3x3 square, so...reading instructions too quickly :P

Though I'm glad you find it interesting

Also...




What the actual heck Benny, how are you wrecking this game so fast

[benny58624]

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What the actual heck Benny, how are you wrecking this game so fast

That's mostly from the easier levels. Im sure the later ones will become very difficult.
I like the game
It would be nice if there was an undo button.

There are a few levels where I do less moves than required for 5 stars. Are we supposed to be able to do that?

[Guest15937]

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There are a few levels where I do less moves than required for 5 stars. Are we supposed to be able to do that?

Haha, that just means you beat the generator :P

I already knew of one level where this is possible. I'm not sure if there are more though

[benguino]

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Tried making a program to solve this game...unfortunately it sometimes does a terrible job at finding the optimal solution (especially when I hit intermediate) but it always manages to find a solution.

[Ksl33zy24]

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benny is just a sick gamer.

[Guest15937]

Re: Oh hey, I made a game

Tried making a program to solve this game...unfortunately it sometimes does a terrible job at finding the optimal solution (especially when I hit intermediate) but it always manages to find a solution.

Haha, nice

I know that eventually the puzzles get complex enough that it's pretty much impossible just to brute force every single possible chain of moves to find the optimal solution (even just a 6-move 4x4 like intermediate 13-16 has 28^6 = 481,890,304 possible chains of 6 moves, and that pales in comparison to the higher difficulties, so to solve this game with a program you'd have to do something other than brute force. And judging by the fact that your program does not always get the optimal solution, it must not be brute-forcing, so props to you

I'd be interested to know if it is possible to write a program that could 100% the game.

[benguino]

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Yeah, I'm not brute forcing xD Basically, I'm recasting the game into a mathematical problem. Each rotation can be realized as a permutation on the grid of numbers. Those rotations generate a subgroup of some permutation group. The solution to a particular puzzle itself can be realized as a permutation. So it's a matter of writing the puzzle's permutation in terms of generators of the permutation subgroup. I'm using Sage at the moment which has a function to do exactly that however I think it's giving me the first solution it comes up with and not the optimal one

[MarcusHawkins]

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I like this game, I got to use my brain to see patterns and solve puzzles in the order of ascending numbers! (I'm currently 2nd place overall, Benny is a genius at this game)

However, I do wish there was an undo button, so if I make a mistake, I can undo my last move, which lets me go back and re-correct myself!

Nonetheless, thanks for bringing in this fun and addicting game!