Yeah I won't deny that it took me forever to finish those puzzles. I sighed when I saw that 4x4 because I've always had trouble with rubix cubes and even the previous square challenges took me a long time. Regardless, I stuck through it and somehow beat it. It wasn't boring just kinda tedious. For people who didn't like it as much, they probably just got frustrated because they felt forced to do it and were focused on getting to the next room. That's why I think if there was a dedicated game to where people sat down and played the square puzzle (not just a 3x3 gird but with other stuff like levels with grids that had missing spaces or something of that nature), people would not feel forced to do anything and could just relax and solve grid puzzles.
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Well, if it is something you'd like to explore, I'll gladly not stand in your way. :) Feel free to make it! I might look into it, but I've got so many lines in the water at this point, and I'm still rather inexperienced designing puzzles even in small scale like this, that it won't be anytime soon if I did. lol