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0h n0 – A new game from the makers of 0h h1
- clarkmoody 12y agoFeature request: user-defined lock of selected circles, similar to how the existing red circles are locked. (This is like the Minesweeper flag option)
- HardyLeung 12y agoAnother feature request... if a tile is already illegal (too many committed blue in line of sight, or no way to commit more blue to satisfy requirement), flag it already. I think the biggest pain is the counting. Otherwise, a nice game!
- ColinDabritz 12y agoI really like the realtime feedback idea, similarly you could always show how many additional dots are needed (e.g. the starting counts are correct and count down as you add visible blue dots in it's line of sight), 0 is blank, negatives could be hilighted as issues. Then you don't have to count existing circles, and errors are clear in real time.
- T-hawk 12y agoThat's what the hint button is for. If you start adding any automated processing like that, then you're only a couple more processes away from the game just solving itself without you. The elegance of this implementation is that you are doing all the solving. Unless you specifically ask for help from the hint button.
- HardyLeung 12y agoIt is a balance between playability and automation. Even minesweeper does that (auto deduce that a large region can be opened up). What I described is only the first-order "convenience" checking to avoid the pain of going way back because of a miscounting. Regarding the hint button. I don't want to use it precisely because I don't want to "win" by repeatedly getting hints.
- mrtnkl 12y agoThe source is on github: https://github.com/Q42/0hn0 https://github.com/Q42/0hn0
- jvzr 12y agoThanks a lot for this! I've been playing to Oh h1 like crazy (current score on my laptop is 23,376, and 10k on my phone). I've never quite liked Threes and 2048, or other games like it, as they either feelt too high paced or too intellectual to me. Your two games on the other hand hit right at home with me, and I actually feel like I'm getting smarted. I'm sure it's placebo, but hey it feels like it helps so it's helping. Anyway, thank you so much for the games!
- jws 12y agoOjoo! 25638 phone. I'm slightly saddened that 0hh1 only includes some of the possible deductions. I generally play 8x8 and I've not found a case where a RBR----R type of row requires a deduction about where the R can not be because it would match an existing row. These come up where you have three unknowns in a row, but I think never for four.
- pavel_lishin 12y agoReminds me a lot of nonograms - http://www.puzzle-nonograms.com/ http://www.puzzle-nonograms.com/
- itsbits 12y agoNice Game
- ddlatham 12y agoIs it fair to rely on the fact that there is only a single solution to make deductions?
- desdiv 12y agoSome starting conditions have multiple solutions. A trivial example would be a 2 x 2 game with two "2" at opposite corners.
- ddlatham 12y agoI believe that such instances are not generated by this game, however.
- dmurray 12y agoI had an example with two possible solutions (3 empty spaces were left, and either BRB or RBR would have satisfied the conditions). I meant to take a screenshot after finishing but the final position fades out (and adds numbers everywhere) so I should have done it before the end.
- doodpants 12y agoI would give an unqualified yes to this. All rules and constraints of a puzzle are fair game for making deductions.
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- T-hawk 12y agoYes. Any deduction that you could reach from that fact could also be reached from other constraints on the board. Here's an example illustration, from the top-left corner of a board: y B R x R _ _ _ _ If x is red, then y is indeterminate, either red or blue is valid there, no other constraint can "see" y to determine it. But if we know the puzzle has a single solution, then we can correctly say x must be blue, so that some other constraint south of x can see through to y. This could be worked out later from that other constraint. But the rules yield this emergent property of a shortcut, and any such emergent property is fair game for logical deduction. If there's anything unfair about this approach, it's that the existence of a single solution is merely implied by puzzle conventions and not explicitly stated as a rule for 0h n0 here.
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- Derpdiherp 12y agoVery addictive! Reminds me almost of a reversed minesweeper.
- r3bl 12y ago0h h1 seems more fun to me.
- detaro 12y agoVery cool, just cost me a bunch of time I've really should have spent on more productive things ;) And will cost me even more in the future. Any reason why the Android App needs access to local storage? (0h h1 doesn't)
- oftenwrong 12y agoIt would be useful to have some explanation such as a tooltip for the icons at the bottom of the board. Their functions are not necessarily clear. I appreciate a game like this: simple, but challenging and entertaining.
- phkahler 12y agoThe X in particular. It seemed like a bad idea to click, and it was.
- tomp 12y agoCan you make it bigger than 8x8?
- FreeFull 12y agoI've found that the same sort of thinking that's useful for nonograms is useful for this game.
- jgable 12y agoSo who will be first to make a 0h-n0/2048/flappy-bird mashup?
- userbinator 12y agoPerhaps it should be called 5h n1 if it "goes viral"...
- opmac 12y agoInteresting take on minesweeper
- c3RlcGhlbnI_ 12y agoA big improvement over 0h h1. I never felt like I had to think when playing 0h h1. Every puzzle was solvable by searching for a series of patterns that had an obvious solution. 0h n0 seems to be just complex enough that sometimes you actually need to think about the problem. At least that is the case so far.
- hollerith 12y agoActually, not being so complex that I actually need to think is what I really like about 0hh1.com. It requires a non-zero but pretty low level of "executive function", but significantly less than most logic puzzles. In particular, a few times per game, I have to apply a little bit of "frontal-lobe" or higher-level skill to prevent myself from losing my patience for constantly applying the lower-level or "perceptual" skills required by 0hh1. In particular, I have to apply frontal-lobe skills to resist the temptation to engage in the "wishful thinking" of falsely believing I have perceived a correct next move to make. (I engage in 0hh1.com mostly to relax or unwind, not to hone any higher-level skill.)
- gpvos 12y agoFor me it was somewhat (but not exactly) the opposite: I encountered 0h n0 first, and was quickly able to finish each level without the computer hints, while I currently still need the hints sometimes for 0h h1. It seems 0h h1 has a slightly harder learning curve before the pattern recognition kicks in, while 0h n0 doesn't rely as much on pattern recognition, but is easier to learn.
- rplnt 12y agoIs every level solvable without guessing? Or are there multiple solutions for some levels? I feel like I had to guess sometimes, but maybe I haven't thought about it enough.
- c3RlcGhlbnI_ 12y agoI have yet to come across a level that requires guessing. They definitely exist in theory though(uncertain whether the level generation algorithm is smart enough to eliminate them). There are no multiple solutions due to an unstated constraint that resolves ambiguities. I believe it is that a blue cannot be surrounded completely by reds.
- pmontra 12y agoEven if this is a different game it somewhat reminds me of countless games of minesweeper 20+ years ago. Luckily (or unluckily?) I'm no more as addicted to these kind of games as I used to be or I would spend all the night playing this one :-)
- jockc 12y agoIf you like this puzzle/game you will love nikoli.com
- jessaustin 12y agoEDIT: thanks! Now I don't have to wonder about the potential effects of undo. I just have to wonder why I didn't figure out which icon triggers it... Perhaps time is a distracting concept in that icon?
- hollerith 12y agoamong the five buttons at the bottom of the page, the one next to the leftmost button is undo.
- Zitrax 12y agoI would like to play without the hints when the board is full.
- canvia 12y agoYeah this makes the end game too easy.
- dracolytch 12y agoThis is a fun little game. Starts out hard, until you start learning some of the rules. 1's are your friend, as well as large numbers. It'll get easier as you learn more patterns, but there are some that are a good challenge.
- m12k 12y agoLike Minesweeper crossed with Sudoku (and with perhaps a dash of Reversi/Othello for good measure). Clever.
- qnaal 12y agoand a helping of picross http://picross.net/ http://picross.net/ though this implementation is a little gimped- rotating to the correct of the three possible states (on,off,nil) often requires two clicks, but a doubleclick is no good..
- TruthSHIFT 12y agoI don't understand what one of the hints means: "One specific dot is included in all solutions imaginable."
- yellowapple 12y agoI think it has something to do with two adjacent "known" dots (for example, I got that on both a 6 and an 8 when both were right next to each other).
- mmanfrin 12y agoTook me a bit to understand it too, it means: Of all the possible permutations that the surrounding dots (of that dot) could be, there is at least one dot that is the same (so that while you can't 'solve' that dot, you can still start to fill out the surrounding).
- T-hawk 12y agoExample, in the top-left corner of the board: 2 _ _ R _ _ _ _ R _ _ _ The location to the right of the 2 must be blue. If it's red, then there's no way for the 2 to see two blues. That's what it means, that that dot is included in every possible solution for the 2.
- ixtli 12y agoThe game is weirdly dystopian for something made from circles and two colors.
- vikramhaer 12y agoCould you elaborate on what you mean by weirdly dystopian? I don't feel like I got the same vibe.
- driverdan 12y agoStaring at the circles had a very odd mental effect for me. After playing a few rounds other websites I look at seems very square, straight, and ridged.
- L_Rahman 12y agoEchoing this sentiment. Closing out of the game and returning to my browser had me wondering if Chrome had updated to a new theme with harder edges
- leovander 12y agoNot just chrome, my whole Yosemite environment seems so sharp.
- doorhammer 12y agoI immediately though "Man, has hacker news always been so angular? Wonder if styling changed... my task bar seems harder too... wat" Really interesting effect
- Kronopath 12y agoThis is the second time I've ever felt this effect. The first time was with the 2048 variant Hexagon 16384 [0]. I'm starting to suspect that it's something having to do with spending a long time staring at a set of regular circles. I wish I knew a neuroscientist so I could ask them about this effect. [0] http://rudradevbasak.github.io/16384_hex/ http://rudradevbasak.github.io/16384_hex/ with HN discussion at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437009 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7437009 and my comment at https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443465 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7443465
- d4n3 12y agoWow, that was exactly what happened to me... Everything is so sharp and square here.
- soperj 12y agoDidn't even realize that this might be the issue. I thought something got updated.
- scscsc 12y agoNice game, quite polished. Is the solution unique to each puzzle? The style is similar to my game NoThree for Android (https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovaludi.nothree.android https://play.google.com/store/apps/details?id=com.ovaludi.no...).
- HardyLeung 12y agoIt seems to be the case.
- BillinghamJ 12y agoEnjoying messing around with this. I ended up getting to a score of 100,000 on 0h h1 and realized I should probably stop playing it :P
- rileyjshaw 12y agoThe hints are fantastic
- falsedan 12y agoRecommended if you like this: Light Up from Simon Tatham's Portable Puzzle Collection[1]. The UI is not as polished, but the collection includes a great number of other puzzles, and has iOS[2] and Android[3] ports. [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/lightup.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/light... [2] http://hewgill.com/puzzles/ http://hewgill.com/puzzles/ [3] https://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/ https://chris.boyle.name/projects/android-puzzles/
- apitheia 12y agoThis actually reminds me more of Simon Tatham's Range[1]. [1] http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/range.html http://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/range...
- falsedan 12y agoOh, I haven't tried that puzzle yet.
- themodelplumber 12y agoOh my goodness. I didn't even think to search for an iOS version. "Net" has for some reason become one of my desert island games. (Thanks a bunch)
- rock8y 12y ago190 on size 8 and back to work :D
- evilmoo 12y agoOh cool - another version of Logic Dots: https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logic-dots/id908720413?mt=8 https://itunes.apple.com/us/app/logic-dots/id908720413?mt=8
- m0rph3v5 12y agoHow is that the same :/
- X-combinator 12y agoHere's the older one: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601774 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8601774
- betaclass 12y agoNikoli has a lot of interesting puzzles. [0] https://member.nikoli.com/index.html?lang=en https://member.nikoli.com/index.html?lang=en
- vorg 12y agoPlaying this game requires using the mouse all the time, whereas playing 2048 only required the four arrow keys on the keyboard. I use the mouse only when I have to. Unfortunately, requiring the mouse makes the web interface of this game klunky. Edit: 20 minutes later, and this is a big deal. I'm sure it's possible to enable the four arrow keys and enter key so we can use the arrow keys to navigate around the grid, and the enter key in lieu of the mouse left click. Other keys on the numeric pad could also be utilized, such as + for the "eye" hints.
- primigenus 12y agoYou should PR it in! The source is on Github: http://github.com/q42/0hn0 http://github.com/q42/0hn0
- matznerd 12y agoEverything on HN looks so square after playing that game...
- Scea91 12y agoI don't enjoy playing these games but I might use it as practice and write a CSP solver on the weekend :)
- robjekt 12y agoIsn't this just minesweeper?
- bumbledraven 12y agoHere's a solver for the puzzle (uses the clingo ASP solver): http://www.takingthefun.com/2015/02/0hn0com-solver.html http://www.takingthefun.com/2015/02/0hn0com-solver.html Using the solver, I calculated that an empty 2x2 puzzle can be solved in 10 different ways, an empty 3x3 puzzle can be solved in 250 different ways, and an empty 4x4 puzzle can be solved in in 22946 different ways.
- time4hn 12y agoJust a head's up to the creator if he reads this: When I tried to tweet my score the tweet was too long.
- recursive 12y agoI can't seem to figure out how to play. I'm trying to make each blue circle count the number of other blue circles it has vertical and horizontal line of sight to. However, when I do this, there's no indication that I won. And some levels are very clearly impossible to satisfy. The hints are rather opaque. ("Looking further in one direction would exceed this number." What?)
- recursive 12y agoI was able to figure out the rules by installing the android version, which explains that you need to fill all the dots to win. There can be no empty white dots. They must all be red or blue, in case anyone else is wondering.
- echaozh 12y agoThe game somehow reminds me of go. Sometimes you have to "grow" the blue dots, and sometimes you have to stop its "growth". Like playing both sides at the same time.
- bencoder 12y agoI get this a lot, so many games seem to remind me of Go. I think it's because Go is like the Lisp(or maybe just λ-calculus) of games - as my co-worker put it: remove any of the rules of go and you would no longer have a game.
- facepalm 12y agoBrings back fond memories of playing minesweeper.
- rplnt 12y agoMinesweeper was timed though, so the point was to go as fast as possible. But similarly to this, there was not much thinking involved after a bit of practice. edit: just noticed you can enable timed game here, still liked minesweeper better :P
- ledzep2 12y agoWhen playing this kind of game, you are not actually playing, but training your brain to be like a cpu which is dumber in logic but stronger in following a procedure. And your fun is over when you figure out the procedure, coz all you have to left is to get the input from whatever on the screen, feed it to the procedure and output the result to the mouse until u win.
- gpvos 12y agoYes. You don't seem to need any backtracking to play these games correctly. This is also why the computer seems to always be able to give clear hints. (Can it really always?) One question is whether this holds for any possible board (starting position), or if they need to be constructed in a certain way for this to be true. I think a game like 2048 will remain interesting longer, because you need to look further ahead and take the random factor into account.
- zellyn 12y agoI know this late comment is likely to be ignored, but: on Android, my battery drains dramatically fast while playing this game. Curious what they're doing that uses so much CPU...