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I was all primed up for a logic puzzle. What I was faced with is a puzzle that (unless you know something I don't) logically only lends itself to brute force solutions. Logically, there was no reason why (Spoiler - click to show)the key had to be a key with the smallest of each of the properties, instead the game was about recognising a very simple (Spoiler - click to show)pattern in the distribution of the keys. I didn't expect much and so I wasn't too disappointed. The game was an interesting experiment and I'm pleased it exists.
As for ratings, I'm not sure they're very helpful in this case. If you want a quick puzzle and want to see what the parser can do, play the game. If you don't, then don't.
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Yeah, the reviews calling this a logic puzzle are misleading. More like a spot-the-suggestive-pattern-of-differences puzzle. I'm glad someone else commented on it, because there doesn't seem to be much discussion on this game and I was starting to wonder if my understanding of combinatorics was severely lacking.
Thank you for your review. I'm sorry that the game wasn't quite what you were looking for; you're right that it was a coding experiment first, and only a game, second. Perhaps one of the games in the logical puzzle games poll would suit you better?
Thanks for the recommendation. I used to study predicate logic and since then there's existed a me such that for all logic puzzles if I have played the puzzle then I haven't been quite satisfied with it. I'll check out the list for a counterfactual to that...
I saw it a bit differently. I didn't have enough information/opinion/emotion to write a review on the game, but I thought the given solution was to (Spoiler - click to show)prod you to try to do things by process of elimination first, and it sort of rewarded "lazy" people who did not want to take too long, and that may have been part of the joke.
I actually tried (Spoiler - click to show)factoring 69105 after tinkering for 5 minutes. This didn't help except to eliminate one more thing to try, but it made the actual solution funnier once I saw it.
And yeah, I couldn't figure out how many stars to give the game, so I didn't. On the one hand, there are more elegant and robust logic puzzles, but on the other hand, this was brief and fun, so I better not whine about it.
