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| 05:42 | <&McMartin> | Tonight's AoC is pretty tricksy |
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| 10:46 | <&jerith> | It's the first one I've had to "cheat" on this year. |
| 10:48 | <&jerith> | The "cheat" is to print out a visual representation of the solution state, perform an heuristic check on a property of the solution, and then return a hardcoded result. |
| 10:49 | <&jerith> | At some point (maybe over the weekend) I'll write some code to parse the solution state into text. |
| 11:25 | <&Reiver> | Not /strictly/ code, but I managed to 100% Hexcells tonight. |
| 11:25 | <&Reiver> | It is the first puzzle game I have ever beaten. |
| 11:25 | < Vorntastic> | The *cells games are pretty top |
| 11:27 | <&Reiver> | The point where they explain how to use guidelines for the Sudoku elements - already my least favorite aspect of the game - a full stage after you have to start dealing with the bloody things was a little egregious ¬¬ |
| 11:27 | <&Reiver> | But otherwise... yeah, I enjoyed it muchly. |
| 11:28 | <&Reiver> | I've heard one should move onto the Hexcells Plus even though Infinite came before it, as it's not quite so well crafted |
| 11:28 | <&Reiver> | (And, uh, is a bit hard to 100% an infinite series of puzzles beyond cheevos, I guess) |
| 11:50 | < Vorntastic> | Hexcells I find leaves clues available too long |
| 11:53 | < Vorntastic> | Like it's possible for the game to figure out whether a clue can no longer help you at all. It should hide clues as you progress so you get less distracted by clues you've already finished with |
| 13:02 | <&jerith> | Yeah. |
| 13:02 | <&jerith> | That said, Hexcells and friends are great. |
| 13:03 | <&jerith> | Infinite's problem is that the puzzles are algorithmically generated, so they tend to be less interesting than the handcrafted ones. |
| 14:49 | <&ToxicFrog> | Vorntastic: IIRC they improved on that in later games. |
| 14:58 | <&ToxicFrog> | Reiver: yeah, Hexcells Infinite is ok if you've already finished base and Plus, but the puzzles aren't as high quality. I'd play Plus (and Squarecells) first. |
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| 17:45 | <&McMartin> | Infinite includes a set of constructed puzzles as well, mind |
| 17:46 | <&McMartin> | The hardest puzzles in the series are at the end of Plus |
| 17:46 | <&McMartin> | IMO |
| 17:47 | <&McMartin> | Also if memory serves Infinite came after plus |
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| 22:00 | <&McMartin> | https://twitter.com/jmarhee/status/1072210874344058881 |
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