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Correct 🙂↕️
Since one of the themes of the jam was memory, I purposefully designed it in an obfuscated way so that you're guessing and have to rely on memory for things, with thoughts maybe like "ah well this pattern got to the right form, but it needed to happen in more turns', I should try it again with some filler".
I think, just like there are multiple answers to each of the challenges, there are also different ways to approach solving it. I've watched someone play it and just feel it out, they know the very surface levels rules presented and could solve most with just two of the potions sometimes. I can also see a more experimental approach being taken, where maybe, you spam each of the potions to see what the effects are and map out what is happening to understand the underlying logic.
Even though I say this, I also didn't really expect anyone to come to a gooner game and give it that much thought so using the provided cheat sheet is also a valid way of solving it 😋 Given how small and hidden away the game is, I doubt anyone would ever figure out what the actual underlying mechanisms are🥲
On the hex grid, think of the active tiles as if they "want' to expand out in every direction, but each of the adjacent tiles has a condition, like certain amount of resource consumed, or certain temperature, to make it able to expand to that tile. Look at the tiles towards the direction of the creature you want to form, and try to meet the conditions to make them expand in that direction.
At first you will not have all the color resources you want, so some of them you will have to sleep until later days to get the other colors. I recommend only sleeping when you are out of any resources that you would need. As for temperature, try to manage it so that it is within the range of the conditions you want, but also outside of the range of the requirements on the tiles you want to avoid.
When a certain tile you want to avoid is unavoidable, like maybe it has similar conditions as the one you are trying to get, you can click on it to use blockers, so that no matter what, it will not activate that tile.
Sorry, I explained it with so many words 😅, but I hope it helps a little.

























