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Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
by addandsubtract 4y ago
Holy... is that what you're supposed to do?!? No wonder the bar wasn't growing even though I jumped to every possible square -.-
- Kiro 4y agoJudging by this thread every single person did the same thing and became equally frustrated (myself included).
- danuker 4y agosomething something programmer found dead in the shower
- II2II 4y agoMaybe we were pushing the programmer a little too hard for changes if they felt compelled to continue working on their project while showering. (Remember folks: using a computer, or any other electric appliance, in the shower is a bad idea!)
- OJFord 4y ago...unless it's an electric shower? (Much as I'm tempted to agree they were a bad idea, we're kind of past that point and it's sort of fine... A bad idea well-executed?)
- dylan604 4y agono, you just have to use your brain implant's wireless connection to make changes. what kind of 21st century lame-os are you that have to worry about electric connections to the computer?
- dylan604 4y agoohmuhgawd, that's gotta be the darkest thing i read all day and caused me to literally lol (so that device would let me type it) so hard i spilled a bit of my old fashioned.
- ryandrake 4y agoWell, it's the one thing the directions didn't actually say: The goal of the game. I'd be shocked if anyone went to that site and could figure out what to do.
- charcircuit 4y agoThe game tells you what square to move to.
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- Dalewyn 4y agoYou need to have /some/ experience playing chess to realize and understand chess notation. And no, vague and indirect "move to every square in order" located separately from the chess notation is not good information. Also, no, tiny nomenclature for ants on the board is not good information.
- IanCal 4y agoAlso on a phone/thin browser window the goal shrinks from "huge text under the header" to "small text at the bottom of the screen" and the instructional text disappears.
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- throwbadubadu 4y agoHave to raise my hand then to shock you.. what else should the coordinate that is also indicated on the axes mean? > to every square in order, right to left, top to bottom Added to that immediately. shrug But yeah as the title says, one realizes quickly that knight moves pretty strange so got bored after 5 targets and did something more exciting: wrote a Python script that prints me the moves from and to any coordinate (:
- rkagerer 4y agoHow is this #3 on my HN today? Is it supposed to be a lesson on how NOT to write?
- malodyets 4y agoBecause everyone on HN was totally sucked in? I sure was.
- xiande04 4y agoWow, I thought it was just cus I was drunk
- abliefern 4y agoI'm confused. What "same thing" did everyone try? The instructions in the help section in the game seemed perfectly clear?
- riffraff 4y agoNo, they say to move in every place, while you're expected to to move to a specific place in every step. f8 is the first for me, but I did not understand that was supposed to be the target, since it seems arbitrary.
- abliefern 4y agoBut it says "every square in order right to left, top to bottom"?
- TuringTest 4y agoI understood that to mean that 'each single move' should aim to move to the left and below the previous position if possible (presumably to reach the bottom left square as the game goal?); taking 'every square' to imply 'every square you move to'; and being further complicated by having a complex subordinate clause with restrictions to movement. It's not a clear, unambiguous instruction.
- abliefern 4y agoAahhhhh.
- dopidopHN 4y agoI was like, ok neat but too bad that bar is broken.
- hot_gril 4y agoI was thinking, dude I can just move the knight between the same two squares, this game is easy.
- jbverschoor 4y ago"It's a user error".. "Users are stupid".. "Why can't they just understand something so simple"
- froh 4y agoso they only now added a help button? that's what it says there.
- mort96 4y agoJust curious, what exactly did you think "in order, right to left, top to bottom" was supposed to mean?
- antifa 4y agoI thought it meant "goto the bottom left corner" or "goto the top left corner then goto the bottom left corner." or "mark all legal tiles visited". There's no hint in the help that you're suppose to goto the tile coordinate specified by the little box in the bottom left corner. I'm not even technically sure that's what the "f8" at the beginning is for since the help doesn't mention it.
- jayknight 4y agoLike move the Knight to every square on the board, in a certain order, but skipping some. I didn't notice the "f8" at the bottom until I read the comments.