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Show HN: SlideCross – a combination of a crossword and Rubik's Cube
Hello! Try out a 3x3 puzzle and click the question mark in the top right for a tutorial.
I'd really appreciate any feedback! Thanks
- prometheus76 3y agoThis is a great puzzle and I am not smart enough to figure out the patterns.
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- dayjaby 3y agoYou can try to find combinations that only permutate parts of the whole thing, with the rest staying as before. Let me give an example if the last row of a 3x3 is already correct. MU - UL - MD Middle Up: you break the correct row temporarily with this. Up Left: you do something with the other tiles Middle Down: re-correct last row
- dmje 3y agoIt’s really great but I think I’m too stupid
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- blakesley 3y agoThis is great! It's definitely more Rubik's than crossword, though. Those Rubik's tricks are coming in handy.
- mattmar96 3y agoGood point, thank you for playing!
- 1-more 3y agoI'm a lifetime intermediate NYT crossword solver and this is impossible. I love it. Got lucky where a few of them were all but done when I started. Haven't even tried anything bigger than 3x3
- mattmar96 3y agoThank you! I love your phrasing of “..this is impossible. I love it.” Exactly what I was going for
- bgoated01 3y agoI've got rubiks skills, but once I moved up past 3x3 the crossword clues were super opaque to me. Very fun, though, and I'm not above googling the clue to find hints. Finished one 5x5 so far, but those 15x15s are super intimidating!
- mattmar96 3y agoGood to know, thanks. I appreciate the kind words! I’ll work with Alex on those bigger puzzle clues.
- hatthew 3y agoAgree, I clicked on a few 5x5s and too many of the clues required knowledge that I simply _don't have_. Very cool concept though, I have some experience with cubing but none of the theory behind it, and this is an easier space to derive commutators and the like.
- dang 3y agoLooks like there's a bit more information (but no comments) in the previous post: Show HN: SlideCross – a combination of a crossword and Rubik's Cube - https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112197 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39112197 (A small number of reposts is fine - I'm just pointing to that one because it looks like there are more instructions there)
- mattmar96 3y agoThank you. I didn’t have the tutorial in the game before so I opted to put some tutorial text in the previous post. Glad that you allow a couple reposts. This is a good example of that policy doing some good! My prior post didn’t get any traction so I’m glad to get some eyes on it this time around.
- mattmar96 3y agoYou can check out the source code here: https://github.com/matttt/slidecross https://github.com/matttt/slidecross
- sea-gold 3y agoI don't see a license. Is this just source available?
- mattmar96 3y agoI’m not familiar with licenses really. I should look into that. I guess what I want is for people to be able to use it but not republish it as their own without modification.
- c0balt 3y agoTake a look at https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/ https://chooser-beta.creativecommons.org/. It's a simple Question based selector for Creative Commons licenses. It asks you about what you want others to (not) do with your work and recommends you a license.
- mattmar96 3y agoThank you!
- johnhenry 3y agoI think I get it, but could you please add a video tutorial?
- mattmar96 3y agohttps://youtu.be/97a3BqsUrKo?si=u-8EFqIUk6l18zkc https://youtu.be/97a3BqsUrKo?si=u-8EFqIUk6l18zkc Here’s a video of me solving a 5x5. There’s also the question mark button in the top right of the game which has some more info!
- captn3m0 3y agounsupported in this browser, use "pixi.js-legacy" for fallback canvas2d support. Firefox / iOS
- evanb 3y agoI do the NYT crossword every day (current streak = 1079), and I loved to solve a rubik's cube as a kid. This game is absolutely incredible. In about 10 minutes I've done a bunch of 3x3s and a 4x4 to see how it works with black squares. I'd encourage you to tweet this at the Wordplay / NYTGames accounts and to make lots more of these! Actually, a little feedback: - on my iPad the bottom row of a 9x9 gets clipped in a way that makes it very difficult to play https://imgur.com/a/EpSPiz1 https://imgur.com/a/EpSPiz1 - Some clues reference 14-across or 16-down or whatever, but I don't see the numbers in the squares / a full list of clues to compare with. - I wish tab took me to the next clue and space changed me from across to down.
- mattmar96 3y agoThank you very much! I appreciate the detailed feedback. I’ll be sure to address those. I’ve just added some new 3x3s and a 9x9, all at the top of their respective sections. Thanks for playing!
- quickthrower2 3y agoReally hard for me but great concept! Definitely one of the more decent wordle-likes I have seen recently.
- aodonnell2536 3y agoReally fun, done mostly 3x3s (a couple 4x4s) but have yet to figure out how to swap two adjacent letters. Keep getting stuck right at the end on some!
- mattmar96 3y agoOh yes this is a tricky part. What you want to do is find what I call a "donor letter". Say you have: BOAR UPTO MUTT PSSA Where you want to swap the last SA to make PSAS. What you'll want to do here is find a 'donor letter' of either S or A. In this case we have the A of BOAR. You'll put the BOAR's A in the place you want the A in PSAS, in this case the third slot. Then put the S that is now floating down into the last slot of PSAS. I understand that this is probably a bit headache inducing to read, so I recorded a clip! https://youtube.com/shorts/SqGgcPXevE4 https://youtube.com/shorts/SqGgcPXevE4 Thank you for playing by the way!
- aodonnell2536 3y agoThank you for the exhibit! Time to revisit the incomplete puzzles and put this to use!