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by tikotus 10mo ago
It's a mix of things. For example, there's an algorithm that ensures all valid deductions are allowed (I'm not smart enough to ensure all of them manually!). But a good amount of manual work goes into each daily puzzle.
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by tikotus 10mo ago
Oh, and perhaps worth mentioning that today's puzzle is not very representative of a regular puzzle, as usually the grid is filled with different professions and not reindeers!
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by tikotus 10mo ago
I don't know how you're able to focus while walking the dog, but good job! And thank you!
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by tikotus 10mo ago
Awesome! Thank you so much!
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by tikotus 10mo ago
Hi there!
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by tikotus 10mo ago
Thank you so much! Indeed, it's quite tempting to blame the game, but the algorithm that ensures all valid deductions are enabled hasn't been wrong a single time since it was finished in June. Often I don't believe it myself,
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by tikotus 10mo ago
https://cluesbysam.com I started making a daily logic puzzle called Clues by Sam in May and it's been stadily growing since. The number one thing people were asking for was more puzzles, so I started selling puzzle packs in
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by tikotus 10mo ago
Here's someone else testing models on a daily logic puzzle (Clues by Sam): https://www.nicksypteras.com/blog/cbs-benchmark.html GPT 5 Pro was the winner already before in that test.
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by tikotus 10mo ago
This is a conjencture, even if I do work in the industry but not AAA, but: Following the trends simply isn't part of their business model. Following current trends is a very unpredictable business. Many try, and many fail. AAA had the
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by tikotus 10mo ago
I'd rather phrase it as "code is straight out of GitHub, but tailored to match your data structures" That's at least how I use it. If I know there's a library that can solve the issue, I know an LLM can implement th
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by tikotus 10mo ago
I didn't know the same person was behind both Planescape: Tormentand Fallout 2, some of my favorite games of all time. Torment I actually played only recently (had only played Baldur's Gate 1&2 before) and absolutely loved it.
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by tikotus 11mo ago
I posted in this monthly thread first time in May when I launched a daily logic puzzle, Clues by Sam. Since then it's grown significantly, and I couldn't be happier! The game has a farily simple frontend, but there is a fairly com
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by tikotus 1y ago
Yes, they are essential. Therefore no permission needed for those.
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by tikotus 1y ago
I recently started it on Deck. At first I thought it was ok, perhaps a bit blurry and hard to read. Then I put it on the TV and oh my when those pixels came at me! I don't consider myself a hifi person, I really don't care much ab
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by tikotus 1y ago
Good question, but I'm not yet experienced enough in language design to give a coherent answer. And I'm not very familiar with delimited continuations. But I think it boils down to keeping the VM simple. Now it's just all clo
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by tikotus 1y ago
I've implemented my lisp/scheme based on Three Implementation Models for Scheme and also Lisp in Small Pieces. Both make a CPS transformation, which, after finally wrapping my head around it, is great for many things. For example
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I am smarter than ChatGPT (at Clues by Sam)(goose.leaflet.pub)
3 points by tikotus 1y ago|0 comments
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by tikotus 1y ago
This is interesting. I've been playing with the idea of dynamic binding for my own scripting language (designed for gamedev). Though I keep coming back to the idea of passing an implicit context object instead, preferably immutable. It
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by tikotus 1y ago
In May I posted about Clues by Sam, a logic puzzle inspired by Murdle. It's been growing nicely, new players coming in every week. It's starting to look possible that it'd grow big enough that I could one day become a serious
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by tikotus 1y ago
It's the same problem as with generating good sudoku boards. It's not easy, and there's not many publicly available solutions, but solutions exist. A common opinion is that a good board is solvable without the use of backtrac
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by tikotus 1y ago
Interesting, but I fail to see how it can work exactly. If there's a function awaiting something, how is the function called then? Will it look like calling any function, but it might not return immediately? But then there's also
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by tikotus 1y ago
I find the async constructs in Verse the most interesting. This is something really rare: race cancels the remaining tasks. Usually you use race (or WhenAny in C#) to start a group of parallel tasks, and it finishes when the first task retu
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by tikotus 1y ago
The outcome of the article seems to be: depends on how you look at it, but in general, it's hard to say. So not many conclusions, but still interesting. I'm not really at all familiar with Rust so the title seemded backwards to me
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by tikotus 1y ago
I want to want a Switch 2, but I don't. I'm pretty happy with the few games I play on Switch now and then, and everything more serious I play on a PS5 or even Steam Deck. But I can totally see why someone gets it if its their prim
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by tikotus 1y ago
I'm just waiting for WebTransport. But any advancements in WebGPU are also welcome, so I don't complain.
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by tikotus 1y ago
I've been running a handful of low traffic services on a $10 VPS from DigitalOcean for years. I'm currently in a situation where a thing I've made might blow up, and I had to look into CDNs just in case. It's just static
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by tikotus 1y ago
Regarding implicit context, it could be nice to use it for time. Games often have different parts running with different speeds, during for example a slowdown effect, or pause, when the game simulation runs slower but the UI should still ru
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by tikotus 1y ago
Awesome! Glad to hear! I indeed have a couple of puzzle games. They are all very different from this one, but more like popular casual mobile games. They are available on iOS and Android, and I also have web builds but I haven't set up
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Show HN: Clues by Sam – a daily logic puzzle using natural language in a grid(cluesbysam.com)
3 points by tikotus 1y ago|2 comments
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by tikotus 1y ago
I mainly use chat(GPT). I used copilot's free tier for a while. For making a quick low effort webpage with some nice styling it worked well. Probably better than chat, since it could touch all css, html and JS that are sprinkled around

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