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What is the rule for the shifting octave? The first puzzle I got starts with E4 E4 and as soon as I click that on the keyboard (or type EE), the keyboard jumps
by fernly 3y ago
What is the rule for the shifting octave? The first puzzle I got starts with E4 E4 and as soon as I click that on the keyboard (or type EE), the keyboard jumps to octave 3 and I can't enter the next note which should be C4.
Or... is that the game, I should be able to ID the notes irrespective of octave?
- sp332 3y agoThe octave is automatically correct for each note. You only have to choose from the notes in the given octave.
- lpnotes 3y agoThanks for the question! The octave will shift according to the solution note. For example, if the solution was: Bb3 Bb4 Dd5 Db5 C5 Bb4 (the first 6 notes of a "Believer" melody) ... the piano octaves will be [3,4,5,5,4] In today's puzzle, the first note is in octave 4, and the second note is somewhere in octave 3. In a VERY early version of the game, we didn't show where the octave positioning was, only 7 white keys, and people got confused because even when they accurately thought that the next note was higher based on the interval, it actually ended up being a "lower" note because it was a lower note on a higher octave scale. So now we give you the octave positioning.
- cperciva 3y agoCame here to mention this too. It seems to adjust octaves for you automatically, but that's not at all clear... and I really don't see why it's necessary either.
- lpnotes 3y ago> It seems to adjust octaves for you automatically, but that's not at all clear. Thanks for mentioning it! I really struggled with this octaves decision, and wrote about it here: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38410228 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=38410228 However, starting to also think that maybe I should just write a note on the page explaining what it's doing, lol.