Over on my site Socoder.net, we have a daily poll, and each day it gives you something to vote on, then the next day you get points based on whether you voted for the winning item on the poll. It's been there for many many years, now, and I'm starting to get a little sick of the sight of the bloomin' thing, but what could I possibly replace it with? The current leading idea is a doodle box, where the players are given a start point and a few colours, and the best art wins. But that then requi...

Initial conception, and first test of printed foldable layout. The layout seems workable, and if I continue to make the puzzles in that aspect ratio it should be fairly functional as a pocketsized booklet. Left the idea to ferment for a week!!

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Managed to get Lattice and Crossed to work simply enough. Decided on the name and logo, with a little help from SoCoder user Dabz.

Added Doodle, Target and Anagram. Tweaked Crossed to give more common words instead of the bizarre, cryptic 4-letter oddities that it was previously coming up with!

...is the apparent name for the foldable booklet of puzzles. Today I need to decide if I'm going to continue to work on FoldAPuz, or take the time to work on more JNKPlat levels. Or, perhaps I should work on both of them!?!

Tweaked Doodle to draw less "squiggly" and more "scrawl-like". Tweaked Target to be less random, and instead do a bit of maths to set the target, so that all targets are at least possible.

Switched to using a TTF font instead of PHP's default rubbish font. Source Code Pro ..Which 1001fonts.com says is free to use, so if it isn't, blame them!

Finally got v1 of the main website up and running. Simple drop down menu items and a puzzle page. Nothing too fancy, just enough that you can select from the growing collection of puzzles.

Added a "Yesterday's Solutions" option to the bottom of the site. Click to switch between viewing today's puzzles or yesterday's solutions. The solutions "should" be functioning properly, but may occasionally glitch if I tweak too much of the underlying ProcGen code for the puzzles. Updated Number Target to remove instances where it would do "n x 1", which resulted in uninteresting maths! Updated Crossed to remove some of the 8-letter word's letters. Added Find a Way. I might rejig...

Finally happy with the Find a Way maze generation. The mazes aren't the "best" mazes in the world, but are at least now a bit better than a straight vertical line! Added Sudoku. Since Sudoku is fairly complex to generate, rather than being wholly generated by the script, I've opted to pre-generate 2000 number grid layouts, which then get numbers plucked from them to give a final puzzle.

Rewrote a significant portion of Sudoku thanks to feedback from @JulieMontoya20. The puzzles are a lot easier, now, but should at least be doable! Added Word Ladder. It's a little bit slow. Hopefully I can find a way to speed that up. Note : Due to the way I've rewritten the Random Words code, (so the Word Ladder worked!) Yesterday's Solutions will not work properly for today or tomorrow.

A minor update to the way Word Ladder is generated, which has sped the whole thing up by a remarkable amount. What took about 3 or 4 seconds, yesterday, now only takes around 0.2 seconds. Optimisation is the key! Technically, instead of checking each and every word in the list, I first ensured the wordlist was properly alphabetised.. Next I jump through the list in groups of 1500 words, until "over", then do a quick sift between the 1500 chunk of words. This is the "Normal" way to do wordlists, but...

Further tweaking to the Find a Way maze generator. Things are hopefully a little more varied, now, and I've also upgraded the solution display. Added Solve A, B, C. (Thanks to Liam Kelk for suggesting it.) I'm not 100% convinced that it's do-able, and will have to sit and try to solve a few of the puzzles over the next day or two.. Quite honestly, my maths brain has melted from all the coding, tonight!!

After realising how bloomin' simple yesterday's version of Solve A,B,C was, I spent an hour or so trying to find the most convoluted of puzzles. I think the maths should be fairly complex, now, but am more convinced than ever, that figuring out the solution isn't as mathematically simple as it should be. Added Move One Digit, which needed a brief explanation. Currently considering adding a similarly short description to each of the panels.

A quick tweak to the Word Ladder generation. It was getting rather silly, and replacing letters with letters it'd previously used, leading to very repetitive ladders.

The site has been moved to a new server, and I've rewritten a bit of the cache code, so it all works a little bit faster. Added Logic Battleships, which Dabz suggested, right at the very start of this project. Sorry it took so long!