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7 months ago
Oh boy, I've got a new fixation.
I don't know how many people have played The Witness, but I recently finished playing through it (I have been vehemently against it for the longest time despite having not finished it, I still don't think it's the "end all be all" of puzzle games, but it is worth playing if you haven't and like puzzles)
Anyways, I've also been into speedrunning for a long time. I haven't had a category to grind recently (I've been working on trying to play Tetris: Grand Master, but haven't gotten a full clear yet because that game is HARD), but in The Witness is a puzzle room where there's a timed gauntlet of puzzles, you have 400 seconds to clear it. I normally wouldn't do puzzle game speedruns because the main speedrun has a lot of "memorize all of these puzzles", but due to the random nature of the challenge I've been loving spamming it over and over.
Anyways, there's a category for The Witness speedrunning where you have to clear that challenge 20 times in a row. I think my goal for it is sub-90 minutes, I've only done about a night's worth of runs on the single challenge but I got a single run down to 4:11 so it should be doable.
... and while I'm thinking about puzzles, anyone that's into sudoku and up to try interesting variations on that, I'm going to mention Logic Masters Germany.
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/
It's a German site, but you can bring up the page in English. I'm sure most people that are into more unique sudoku are already aware of this (from places like Cracking the Cryptic), but might as well get it out there. If you're overwhelmed by the number of variants on their, my three favorites at the moment are:
Chaos Construction - the regions aren't the standard 9 3x3 regions. Usually these start out with no regions defined and you have to figure out where the 9 9-cell 1-9 regions are, also usually with some rules restricting them further than "9 orthogonally connected regions with 1-9 in them" to help figure out where the regions are early.
Killer Cages - Extra boxes placed over the puzzle marked with a number. The number is what the numbers in the box have to sum to, and usually no repeats in the box, so e.g. a 2 cell box with a 4 has to contain exactly a 1 and a 3 because it can't contain two 2s
Anti-Knight - In addition to normal sudoku rules, cells also can't share a number with a cell that is a knight's chess move away from them. Allows for some additional interesting logical deduction when you know that a number has to be in one of a couple of cells.
Anyways, that was it. I had an idea for this week's weekly prompt that I need to finish still so I should go do that @_@
I don't know how many people have played The Witness, but I recently finished playing through it (I have been vehemently against it for the longest time despite having not finished it, I still don't think it's the "end all be all" of puzzle games, but it is worth playing if you haven't and like puzzles)
Anyways, I've also been into speedrunning for a long time. I haven't had a category to grind recently (I've been working on trying to play Tetris: Grand Master, but haven't gotten a full clear yet because that game is HARD), but in The Witness is a puzzle room where there's a timed gauntlet of puzzles, you have 400 seconds to clear it. I normally wouldn't do puzzle game speedruns because the main speedrun has a lot of "memorize all of these puzzles", but due to the random nature of the challenge I've been loving spamming it over and over.
Anyways, there's a category for The Witness speedrunning where you have to clear that challenge 20 times in a row. I think my goal for it is sub-90 minutes, I've only done about a night's worth of runs on the single challenge but I got a single run down to 4:11 so it should be doable.
... and while I'm thinking about puzzles, anyone that's into sudoku and up to try interesting variations on that, I'm going to mention Logic Masters Germany.
https://logic-masters.de/Raetselportal/
It's a German site, but you can bring up the page in English. I'm sure most people that are into more unique sudoku are already aware of this (from places like Cracking the Cryptic), but might as well get it out there. If you're overwhelmed by the number of variants on their, my three favorites at the moment are:
Chaos Construction - the regions aren't the standard 9 3x3 regions. Usually these start out with no regions defined and you have to figure out where the 9 9-cell 1-9 regions are, also usually with some rules restricting them further than "9 orthogonally connected regions with 1-9 in them" to help figure out where the regions are early.
Killer Cages - Extra boxes placed over the puzzle marked with a number. The number is what the numbers in the box have to sum to, and usually no repeats in the box, so e.g. a 2 cell box with a 4 has to contain exactly a 1 and a 3 because it can't contain two 2s
Anti-Knight - In addition to normal sudoku rules, cells also can't share a number with a cell that is a knight's chess move away from them. Allows for some additional interesting logical deduction when you know that a number has to be in one of a couple of cells.
Anyways, that was it. I had an idea for this week's weekly prompt that I need to finish still so I should go do that @_@
