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Foldapuz - The Start
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3rd September 2018
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...
Views 148, Upvotes 42
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The Very Beginning
Blog
3rd September 2018
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!!
Views 135, Upvotes 25
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11th September 2018
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Views 211, Upvotes 38
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First code session
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11th September 2018
Managed to get Lattice and Crossed to work simply enough.
Decided on the name and logo, with a little help from SoCoder user Dabz.
Views 132, Upvotes 20
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Three New Games
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12th September 2018
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!
Views 85, Upvotes 23
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FoldAPuz
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12th September 2018
...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!?!
Views 229, Upvotes 44
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Game Tweaks
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13th September 2018
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.
Views 142, Upvotes 26
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Doodle
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13th September 2018
This is a game with no solution. Simply use the scribbles on the page as a basis for your own masterpiece.
Views 102, Upvotes 30
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Font Change
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14th September 2018
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!
Views 125, Upvotes 20
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Number Target
Game
14th September 2018
For each of the two puzzles, use the numbers given, and your mathematical prowess, to generate the larger Target value.
Views 108, Upvotes 27
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Maths
Anagrams
Game
14th September 2018
Try to find as many words as you can within each group of letters.
Can you find the full length anagram for each set? Views 106, Upvotes 29
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Words
A Website
Blog
15th September 2018
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.
Views 157, Upvotes 31
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Solutions
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16th September 2018
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...
Views 132, Upvotes 25
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Sudoku
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17th September 2018
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.
Views 99, Upvotes 25
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Sudoku
Game
17th September 2018
Fill in the grid such that no row or column contain duplicates of the numbers 1 through 9.
In addition, each of the nine bordered 3x3 miniature grids should also contain the numbers 1 through 9. Views 101, Upvotes 27
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Logic
Daily Blog
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19th September 2018
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.
Views 171, Upvotes 29
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Wordlist Upgrade
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23rd September 2018
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...
Views 84, Upvotes 21
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Solve A,B,C
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25th September 2018
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!!
Views 130, Upvotes 33
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Move One Digit
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26th September 2018
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.
Views 134, Upvotes 45
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Move One Digit
Game
26th September 2018
Move one digit from one of the two numbers, over to the other, so that the result of the sum is correct.
Views 122, Upvotes 31
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Maths
Tweaking
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27th September 2018
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.
Views 74, Upvotes 18
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Nips and Tucks
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3rd October 2018
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!
Views 146, Upvotes 32
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