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Show HN: Countle
Countle is a daily puzzle game, a la Wordle, where you use 6 given numbers to produce of a sequence of calculations to reach a target number. In other words, it's a daily round of the "Numbers Game" from the British game show Countdown.
Sample numbers round: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI
A new puzzle appears every day!
- keyle 4y agoNice. I too enjoy making these little puzzles. Check out one I did last month: https://curdle.me https://curdle.me
- WantonQuantum 4y agoNamed for the TV show? https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show) https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Countdown_(game_show)
- gdix 4y agoYes!
- banana_giraffe 4y agoNice, as always with these things, the fun for me is writing a little solver: https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/393e7840cc5a0d20ef2bff70987a5b44 https://gist.github.com/Q726kbXuN/393e7840cc5a0d20ef2bff7098...
- Aperocky 4y agoThis is fun, thanks.
- chaosprint 4y agoVery good.
- curiousgal 4y agoOof, took me 30 minutes
- excerionsforte 4y agoTook me 25 mins and many rearrangments :(
- divbzero 4y agoImpressive you stuck with it for so long. I was just about to give up…
- glokty 4y ago100 + 75 + 8 + 6 - 50 / 25 = 187 Any better solutions?
- Elzear 4y ago6 * 50 / 25 + 100 + 75 = 187 is one step less
- v01dv01d 4y agoI wonder how you do the input on Countle. It is still 4 steps, like above.
- i_cannot_hack 4y agoYou can use one less calculation 50/25=2 2*6=12 100+75=175 175+12=187
- nurettin 4y agoWow exactly my thoughts.
- jrmg 4y agoI would like to be able to undo any part of a calculation without trashing the whole row.
- onion2k 4y agoThat's really cool. The UI is very intuitive. Bookmarked. :)
- nicoboo 4y agoNice implementation and animations. I've used summle.net for a couple of months. Few ideas from their implementation: - achievements, badges and stats - hints when your stuck - 3 levels (for kids, normal, extreme) - quick erase all - % of overall resolution from other user - best solution (in N moves VS your K moves) Few other ideas: - dark mode - practice mode (more user retention, just like quordle) Enjoy your code and your project, I'll try to add it to my daily puzzles.
- alanbernstein 4y agoThis is my favorite so far of the number-based wordle-likes.
- kirchhoff 4y agoI made summle.net a while back, which is similar. After I while I found that this type of game can be frustrating as you are not incrementally solving the puzzle - instead there are multiple dead ends before stumbling upon the solution.
- francois14 4y agoNice game, thanks for summle.net! Here is my try for a solver: https://summle-solver.herokuapp.com https://summle-solver.herokuapp.com
- beardyw 4y agoThe Countdown numbers round included this impressive solution in the allotted 30 seconds. https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https://m.youtube.com/watch%3Fv%3D0q6PT4ad6BY&ved=2ahUKEwiyuP_Jx_X5AhWKiVwKHUiIAk0Qxa8BegQIAxAF&usg=AOvVaw3a6fVsPg__O6ZzoNK7ogT5 https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&source=web&rct=j&url=https:/... As always that means there is a solver. https://www.maths-resources.com/countdown/ https://www.maths-resources.com/countdown/
- bhrgunatha 4y agoAnother similar problem from earlier in the show https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pfa3MHLLSWI Can I ask why you don't just link directly to youtube?
- beardyw 4y agoI don't think I have ever worked out how to!(from the Android app)
- satyrnein 4y agoI was surprised you didn't have to use all of the numbers at the top. I never used the 8.
- gsinclair 4y agoThat’s just the way the game goes. Perhaps you’re not familiar with the TV game show Countdown, but it has been around for decades in case you’re interested in checking it out on YouTube. But I’d personally recommend the comedic variant “8 out of 10 cats does Countdown”. RIP Sean Lock :’(
- manicminer 4y agoThis is great
- ThePhysicist 4y agoI once built a Tetris-like game prototype where you needed to form algebraic equations to clear objects, the more complex your equation the more points you got [1]. Reminds me a bit of this. 1: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cux8jobEbEs https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Cux8jobEbEs
- sfg 4y agoI enjoyed this. Thank you.
- agmz 4y agoAbout time someone did a numeric version of Wordle. Nice execution
- tokamak-teapot 4y agoWhen adding to Home Screen on phone, title suggest is ‘React App’. I changed it to ‘Countle’. Great game, thanks!
- gdix 4y agoOops, fixed this. Thanks for letting me know.
- pietroppeter 4y agoVery nice, particularly enjoyed the video (I did not know the original game). Could be improved on the sharing part! (Is puzzle the same for everyone?). A first idea: green squares for numbers on top used, yellow squares for intermediate numbers where used. Green square for final solution. Black (or similar) circle for operations. Black squares for other numbers
- suprjami 4y agoHave been playing https://numble.wtf https://numble.wtf for a while, which is the same thing but nicer UI
- geraldwhen 4y agoCountle has a way easier UI. The link you posted is not very friendly at all.
- ashishb4u 4y agoNo nerdle fans here? https://nerdlegame.com/ https://nerdlegame.com/
- neogodless 4y agoKind of a fan - but for some reason the UI is really bad for me in Firefox. You cannot type `/` or `Enter` - you have to use the mouse for those. And it kept saying things did not compute, even though it was a valid equation.
- 12ian34 4y agoenjoyed this, thanks! I did have a problem (Firefox, Android) where hitting "share" upon completion just didn't work with some error I can't remember along the lines of not having any content to copy to clipboard. Now that the share button has disappeared I can no longer even try to share again
- slazaro 4y agoThe symbol for the multiplication shows as "ă" for me for some reason.
- yreg 4y agoHmm, it is the correct unicode character: × U+00D7 MULTIPLICATION_SIGN Perhaps × html entity would fix that.
- shever73 4y agoBrilliant, thank you. That’s a new daily puzzle in my bookmarks.
- marcuskaz 4y agoGood stuff, thanks for sharing! There's a card game Krypto that is similar, fun to play with my kids. I wrote some scripts awhile ago to solve Krypto games and figure out how many games are unsolvable. I wrote up my thinking and how I went about solving here: https://mkaz.blog/math/krypto-game-analysis/ https://mkaz.blog/math/krypto-game-analysis/
- rq1 4y agoI'm really bad at calc, it took me 6mn, but without using the 8. :)
- pimlottc 4y agoNifty. Could use some explanation, as not everyone is familiar with the show Countdown (particularly outside the UK). Even knowing the show, I was a bit confused how I was supposed to solve it using only one operation, until I realized it was a series of steps. And it took me a moment to figure out how to reuse the result of a previous step. Once I had figured that all out, though, it was a pleasure to use. Well done!
- jstummbillig 4y agoOkay. I have zero intuition about how to solve this and that has me very intrigued.
- btbuildem 4y agoAbsolutely unintuitive as compare to Wordle (which I'm guessing the name is a play on).