brgross

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Show HN: Tidy Baby is a SET game but with words(tidy.baby)
37 points by brgross 9mo ago|7 comments
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by brgross 11mo ago
yeah...working on adding a space bar/key to mobile suburbs solver!
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by brgross 11mo ago
I've played around a little with this but never found a way to do it that I thought worked for the Atlantic puzzle. Here's a very bad example I just made of one way you might use emoji to make inter-clue references: https:&#x2F
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Show HN: Build your own Bracket City puzzle(builder.bracket.city)
32 points by brgross 11mo ago|8 comments
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by brgross 1y ago
Love these ideas -- I've also been thinking about an "arcade" mode where you get prompted with a country "in sight" and you have to guess the bearing
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by brgross 1y ago
I went with great circles since that feels like the most “natural” straight line on a sphere — the path you’d walk if you just kept going forward without steering. You could define "straight" as a constant compass direction (I thi
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Show HN: What country you would hit if you went straight where you're pointing(apps.apple.com)
80 points by brgross 1y ago|40 comments
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We Benchmarked Frontier Reasoning Models on the Atlantic's Bracket City(redspring.xyz)
4 points by brgross 1y ago|0 comments
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Thank HN: The puzzle game I posted here 6 weeks ago got licensed by The Atlantic(theatlantic.com)
981 points by brgross 1y ago|169 comments
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by brgross 1y ago
I posted Bracket City to HN on February 24th and the game went live yesterday on The Atlantic (!) The game will stay free to play (and not require logging in). Also, I'm still making all the puzzles! HN provided the first real infusion
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by brgross 2y ago
Amazing convergence! Thank you for playing!
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by brgross 2y ago
have gone back and forth on this point -- so far I've decided that outer brackets should be a hint that guides on you inner brackets, but that you can't skip any clues but I hear you!
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by brgross 2y ago
fair! I do think today's puzzle betrays my elder millennial status more than most...
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Show HN: Bracket City – A daily, exploded (?) crossword puzzle(bracket.city)
109 points by brgross 2y ago|53 comments