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I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteles
by sedatk 1y ago
I gave up at "Mark all squares of the 64th floor of the Empire State Building"[1]. I had even spent an hour on the chess challenge, but that one looked tasteless if I wasn't missing a trick. I thought that I was supposed to try all the floors close to 64 (considering the topmost one below the tower was 86). I really didn't have the patience for that, especially the possibility of missing to mark an overflowing pixel line, etc.
Also, I hit a bug at the AI challenge which prevented me to pass it. So I had to spent at least 5-6 more tries to pass it.[2]
Fun, but wouldn't go near it again :)
[1] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz3gxm42jc2w https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz3gxm42jc2w
[2] https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz2o4mdrzc2l https://bsky.app/profile/ssg.dev/post/3lz2o4mdrzc2l
- flexagoon 1y agoYeah, you just try every floor close to 64. It took me like a minute or two to click through.
- singularity2001 1y agoI googled an image found out how many floors it has and counted down from the top. worked on second try after I realized that many squares contain two floors
- hiddendoom45 1y agoI just had deep blue play against stockfish since I wasn't that good at chess.
- opensandwich 1y agoThey gave me 2 queens to start with on my second attempt
- sedatk 1y agoI know, it maxes out at 5 queens. Still couldn't make it for an hour. :)
- gschizas 1y agoI reverse engineered what I could, and it's supposed to be all in row 30, column 4 to 11 (8 squares). You may add 2 more squares on the left or right side (it's just checking it's no more than 10 squares). It's the third row where other buildings show up. https://i.redd.it/rwudh4r46eqf1.png https://i.redd.it/rwudh4r46eqf1.png
- sedatk 1y agoI'm glad that the programmer put some tolerance to it, but it was impossible for me to know whether he did or not at the time, and that was the end of fun for me :)
- bobsmooth 1y agoI found a diagram that listed the 71st floor. I went down a bit and bruteforced a search.