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I swear I've heard this music before. What is it?
And do I recognize it from somewhere else, or just from another Picma game? It sounds like RPG music...
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Good game, enjoyed all the puzzles except the last one; far too easy! I saw 50x50 and thought it might be hard but most of it is filling in 9's then patching in the odd corner... could have just used the paint bucket tool and it wouldn't have come out too badly..
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fun game but why not get more badges out of it instead of going straight to hard from easy make journeyman levels medium expert hard and master impossible or something like that would be nice
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Impressive contribution. I think it could be refined a bit, but impressive for everything it does. I would suggest having colored Xs beneath or next to the colors. Also, there needs to be some way of error checking, because one mistake will drive you nuts. Show incomplete doesn't do it.
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I think there should be an option to remove the grid so you can see what sort of picture you're building. I mean, I don't think anyone knows what they're building half the time until they see the complete picture. But what can I say, it's pretty cool to see it all at the end and go "Oh, so THAT'S what I was building!" 5/5
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Unlike what ZorroZx said, I would have preferred an option where it all sort of came together into one big puzzle. It was more confusing than helpful, in my opinion.
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I swear, some of the 15 squared puzzles in Expert were harder than most of the 20, 25 and 30 squared puzzles in Master.
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I noticed a bug in garden gates there is a place with two legitimate solutions
however only one lets you finish the level the other doesnt
basically its possible to swap red and black and still have correctness in both
but one doesnot allow u to pass the level.
:)
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A tip I used when I got stuck: Let's say that 5 and 2 are right next to each other (the specific numbers doesn't really matter as long as the difference is 3). Then you know for sure that all the 3 boxes next to the 5 that are out of reach from the 2, are all colored. Additionally, all the 3 boxes that are next to the 2 and out of reach from the 5 are not colored that specific color. This applies only if the numbers are the same color.
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This could be just me, but I just cannot seem to guess what the picture is until I see the picture at the end. I have no idea why that is the case.
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This game does many things just right, first and foremost sticking strictly to the "you never need to guess"-rule. But also the UI is simply well thought out.
I was a bit disappointed near the end, tough. "Half of the fish" was a real brain-twister, but after that levels seemed to get ever easier and larger. In particular the last level was rather boring, IMO. Compared to the other "master" levels it is trivially easy, but still takes a long time to solve purely for its size. I sat through that only for completeness, and the badge.
Either way 5/5.
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I think a save state/return to saved state feature would be a cool addition to this game. This would allow you to test a possibility and return to an earlier position easily if it didn't work out.
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I just realized that I can use this line of reasoning:
"Among these 4 blocks, only 1 is colored brown, and the other 3 are empty. Suppose that, in the final unique solution, block A is empty, then block B or C or D can be colored, making the solution non-unique. Therefore, block A is colored."
This line of reasoning presupposes the intelligent designer of the puzzle is certain of the uniqueness of the puzzle solution.
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Uhh, well I just lost all my process, it seems. The 'Resume Game' button doesn't light up even though my badge progress says the Journeyman levels should be completed. Does logging out of Kongregate mess with the autosave?
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Very challenging. Love exercising these particular braincells. I am enjoying the challenge of trying to get the Interpicmatic Planetary Badge
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I like how biggest puzzle (50x50) are surprisingly one of the easiest big puzzles here. I bet many people just passed before even trying them, while there are harder puzzles in expert here, haha :D But even if they are easy, 50x50 needs a little time to solve ;)
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[spoiler alert!] Which of these puzzles were the best in my opinion? 25x25 "The garden Gates" ;-) . Even if they were symmetrical and you spotted it, solving them was still challenging and they gave me very much fun, trying to prove that "here should be green" or "let's suppose that that tile is not back, then we have this, this.. and this... and we have contradiction, thus we have black tile here" :D
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has a merciless learning curve, engages very well and once you master it it doesn't get boring although the puzzles take 20 minutes each.
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Absolutely fantastic. Contemplative, engaging, and clever, all at the same time. I've got one little thing, though. I'd love it if the x's were a little bit thicker, so they were easier to see. Other than that, perfect. 5/5.
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LOL!!! when i press more puzzles it brings me to that page and tada! it said: The page you requested was eaten by a troll. Hes not even sorry. LOL!!!!!!!! its so so soooo funny!
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When you boast about making a 'colourblind-friendly interface' it's nice to actually make it colorblind friendly. Master 4 was perhaps the most annoying puzzle of them all. Light purple next to blue all over.
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Love this game, but could we get an undo button? It's hard to remember every move we've made on those times when we have to test an idea, but discover after a few moves that it doesn't work.
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The game is fun, bu the music sounds like the most headache-inducing version of Scarborough Fair I've ever heard. It'll drive you batty if you choose to leave it on.
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For those struggling early on, one of the key techniques is by some people considered a "guess". it's based on the fact you never need to guess: imagine if you marked a particular square, what would that do to the puzzle? if you follow it through and it leaves you with a position where there's no way forward other than a guess, then the original square you marked CANNOT be correct.
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I love that I end up making something out of the crazy colored squares that I fill in. I also love the music; it adds a nice relaxing tone to the game :)