"Game Development" Posts
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Corner Place
The puzzles I’ve posted so far have been easy-to-describe as “like sudoku, but…”. But, as I’ve done more research into the mathematics underlying these types of puzzle systems, I’ve come to realize that the “sudoku-like”ness of these puzzles is captured entirely by the concept of the “Latin square”. And, in doing further research into Latin squares, I found a neat kind of puzzle that seems very underexplored.
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Puzzle Rankings
The site currently has a few daily puzzle games running-- Pair Place and Triple Place. Today, I’m introducing a ranking server that will let you see how well you performed compared to other players on each daily puzzle.
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Triple Place
A few months ago, I started posting a daily puzzle called Pair Place. Pair Place arose naturally as a math problem during some research, but I naturally started to wonder if there were any basic generalizations of it that could serve as variations on the same puzzle concept. The first such generalization of Pair Place is the subject of today’s post: Triple Place.
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Pair Place
I thought that it might be a good challenge to try to introduce and keep up-to-date a daily puzzle on the site for as long as I can manage. So, starting today, I will be uploading a daily puzzle for a puzzle system I’ve been investigating, which has some similarities to sudoku.
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