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Junior Arithmancer

by Mike Spivey profile

2018
Inform 7

About the Story

A one-to-many-room puzzler.

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v.16: 30-Apr-2025 22:11 - JTN (Current Version) - Edit Page - Normal View
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v.11: 25-Nov-2019 20:29 - cas
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v.8: 17-Nov-2018 17:16 - Doug Orleans
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v.1: 05-Oct-2018 13:04 - MathBrush
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4 Off-Site Reviews

The Breakfast Review
On the whole, a lot of fun for anyone who's into purely cerebral manipulation puzzles.
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McT's Interactive Fiction Reviews

It is one of those games that if you like this sort of thing, then this is a thing you will really like. The puzzle mechanism is exceptionally well implemented, the narrative might be thin, but it does succeed in adding character to the game. To me, the puzzles felt hard but fair.
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The Good Old Days

Anyone who has done some serious maths will tell you that it can be quite magical. Even with the most basic of operations you can do some impressive tricks with astonishing results. It is that feeling of wonder you get, when you finish a long set of calculations that end up with surprising � simple but true � answers which makes people love mathematics. Just think of the flow of solving a problem, that single moment when everything fits together and you see all the connections, and you might know what I mean. And this magic moments is exactly what Junior Arithmancer is all about.
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IFComprehensive

The game is really about abstract number puzzles, or even a computer science and programming puzzles, rather than mathematics per se. Despite its similarities to ABCA, it reminds me of programming games like �Robot Odyssey.� It�s also one that rewards creativity in thinking about and exploiting its mechanics, which is a great feature in a puzzle game.
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