OddThinking

I unnecessarily answer the ambiguity issue in the Circuit Puzzle, in living colour.

Another puzzle solved with the same architecture as before, but this time, with added code re-use.

In this article, I introduce another puzzle game, talk about some variations that are possible, provide a glossary (and then fail to use it, for now), discuss how the puzzle is solved, and then promise more in a future article.

This article focuses on that message-passing system and the variants I have tried in the puzzle-solving architecture that has evolved over a number of pet projects.

This article includes some Slitherlinks tips for players who understand the basics and want to tackle the medium and hard examples.

Virus 2 is a flash game with a disturbing name, but quite simple game-play.

I set out to solve it under some arbitrary constraints.

Meantime, I started negotiating a deal. Grace would persuade Ben to give up the secret to the binary trick…

Could McDonald’s afford to charge $50 for a hamburger?

Just how many laser pointers would it take to fake a red eclipse?

The challenge is to calculate every integer value between 0 and 100 using only the number 4.