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Genuinely curious - what makes it stupid?
by lanternfish 3y ago
Genuinely curious - what makes it stupid?
- metadat 3y agoThe rules become flexible and abnormal for the sole purpose of supporting someone's agenda. Maybe enjoyable or appreciable in a meta sense, but from a game mechanic PoV it makes strategies meaningless.
- twiceaday 3y agoPart of the point of variant sudoku is discovering / inventing brand new interactions you've never seen before. And crowd-sourcing votes on whether that discovery process is fun. You are basically getting introduced to a new set of axioms and have to discover and prove theorems.
- cedilla 3y agoWhat agenda is that?
- huytersd 3y agoAgenda to increase views I assume
- prerok 3y agoNot the OP, but I think they mean that the change to the rules is done to reduce the search tree a program should traverse but makes it difficult for a human to reason about. We search for solutions heuristically and because of the added rules must back track a lot more, which makes it tiring. So, the change makes it easier for a computer but not for a human.
- huytersd 3y agoThe thumbnail implies there is a way to solve a seemingly impossible puzzle. But it’s really not solvable using traditional rules, you have to come up with weird one off rules to solve it. At that point is it really sudoku or just a sudoku shaped different game. It’s like playing checkers with chess pieces.