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Posted by HaxleRose 2 days ago

Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site(puzzlelair.com)
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GL26 2 days ago|
Please copy the LinkedIn Games !
lewistaariq 2 days ago||
I second this suggestion.
HaxleRose 2 days ago||
Oh yeah? I'll have to check them out. Good tip!
Sander_Marechal 1 day ago||
Perhaps add "Tectonic" as a puzzle type? It's the same as Ripple Effect but it disallows diagonal repeats.
dirteater_ 2 days ago||
Cool but why do I have to create an account to keep playing? I hit the back button to review the rules and now I can't even try the game out.
ChrisRR 2 days ago||
Well i like the theory but all of your nonograms are symmetrical or diamonds. Not exactly much of a puzzle

And what sort of monster doesn't have nonogram sizes in multiples of 5?

HaxleRose 2 days ago|
Haha, yeah, the early puzzles are pretty simple, but they do start to get more variety as you progress through them.

I hear ya. Maybe multiples of 5 would've been better. Mainly, I was trying to get a good mobile experience with as big of a board as I could. Perhaps not the best call.

iooi 2 days ago||
Nice job! I made something similar, mostly for myself: https://www.vexling.com

Plan to keep it forever free :)

HaxleRose 2 days ago|
Nice! real cool! This site does have monetization, but I give the first 25 puzzles free for each difficulty level. So a good amount of free content and I'm still trying to add more games.
insane_dreamer 2 days ago||
Nice! A few word games would be cool: scrabble, boggle, etc.
HaxleRose 2 days ago|
Good feedback! I've built a wordle clone in the past (back when I had to write it all by hand!). Right now, I'm focused on logic puzzles and there are dozens more I'd like to add, but word puzzles may be coming at some point in the future. I had thought of them, but there's just so many different puzzles I want to put on there!
insane_dreamer 2 days ago||
awesome. def need levels of difficulty for word puzzles against the AI; would be impossible to win otherwise :)

along those lines, you know what might be interesting is to have OSS models, including old ones, and select the model to play against (a bit like stockfish has different algos you can play chess against). This substitutes for levels of difficulty (assuming the old/small OSS models are worse, though when it comes to scrabble they might be just as good as any human in which case you would have to introduce some noise to degrade their performance

baxbyte 1 day ago||
Very nice! Similar to PuzzlePage.app as well
ghtbircshotbe 1 day ago||
Anyone know of a free version of spelling bee?
a_c 1 day ago|
I like the WSJ/newspaper look of the site, nice!
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