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Fun game, love it a lot and spend too much time with this already :D

Figuring out the different items and what they do offers a nice replay-value but an overview what can be unlocked (and once you have, what they do) would be helpful.

I also ran into the problem that once the items interact with each other so that they sometimes basically solve a puzzle on their own, it gets solved wrong. Not the best screenshot, sorry, but you can see what i mean here. I didn't solve most of that - i couldn't have made that many mistakes without dying anyways. Not sure if that's a known issue but i'd be interested to know how that happens?

Jawdan2 days ago (21 edits)

Ah so more or less,, (bit of a technical breakdown, sorry in advance) when making the boards it does the following steps:

Random fill
Generate labels based on fill
Solve the final board solution based on the labels. This ends up with filled, crossed out, and ambiguous(!) cells
Test ambiguous cells to see if they're really "abiguous" by filling and crossing and seeing if both solve nicely (if one doesn't, then it's state is the other one!). This step is currently what messes up as, for 20+ rows/columns mainly, even when it places and tests it doesn't solve completely!

This means that after you place one or two onto the so called "ambiguous" cells, they're not actually ambiguous in the final solution and thus you get the weird "mostly crossed out" bug and the game doesn't treat it as an error as it doesn't know (thinks it's ambiguous)!! (some form of recursive test is whats needed to fix this directly but that fairly computation intensive so....)

The broken ones usually look like this (as you might’ve encountered!):

Anyways, thank you so much for playing and having fun with it!! :)

Kelethia2 days ago

Thank you for the breakdown! That makes sense and i get why it's not that easy to fix

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