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Even More Foldapuz!
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10th October 2018
The triangles weren't too hard to get up and running yesterday, so I also took time to make a completely random letter grid.
The letter grid doesn't really have any specific solution due to it being entirely random, but you're supposed to play it like you would a game of Boggle.. Trying to find words with letters that join up.
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New Games
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9th October 2018
Added Critically Triangular.
Aaah, the joys of trigonometry!
Also added Word Snake, which doesn't currently have any solutions, because I'm not sure how I could do that!
It's an open-ended game, and should at least prove somewhat challenging.
In addition, I've also rejigged the puzzle selection menu to make it a little bit neater, sectioning off the games into their various categories, and I've also shuffled the How To instructions to be in the same order.
Views 148, Upvotes 35
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Need More Puzzles!
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9th October 2018
If you've tried clicking the "Words, Maths, Logic" links on the Foldapuz site, you'll probably have noticed that the templates aren't 100% just of that type.
This is simply because I haven't yet coded enough puzzles for each category.
Views 191, Upvotes 32
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8th October 2018
Use your knowledge of Trigonometry to find the values of all the sides and angles of the critical triangle.
Views 122, Upvotes 28
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More Foldapuz
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8th October 2018
I added a simple new game to Foldapuz, last night, but .. Would you believe it.. It didn't show up on today's default layout.
D'oh!
Views 118, Upvotes 33
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Word Grid
Game
7th October 2018
Complete the grid using the letters provided, so that each row and column contains a valid three letter word.
Views 140, Upvotes 22
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Words
Word Grid
Blog
7th October 2018
Added Word Grid.
It's not the best word selection, but at least it works.
I did try making it only use "The most common 3 letter words", but it tended to get stuck whilst trying to generate the puzzles due to there not being nearly enough "common" words in the list.
I might rejig this game at a later point.
Views 129, Upvotes 27
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URL Formatting
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4th October 2018
Spent an insane amount of time reformatting the URL so that I can add the new Words/Maths/Logic shortcut URLs into the mix.
Seems to function well enough, and should allow people to quickly pick their favourite types of puzzles from the site.
Additionally added a very brief set of instructions for the games in the "How To" page. Hopefully that's enough instructions to get the player going.
As always, let me know if it isn't!
Views 162, Upvotes 51
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Nips and Tucks
Blog
3rd October 2018
The site has been moved to a new server, and I've rewritten a bit of the cache code, so it all works a little bit faster.
Added Logic Battleships, which Dabz suggested, right at the very start of this project.
Sorry it took so long!
Views 144, Upvotes 31
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Tweaking
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27th September 2018
A quick tweak to the Word Ladder generation. It was getting rather silly, and replacing letters with letters it'd previously used, leading to very repetitive ladders.
Views 74, Upvotes 18
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Move One Digit
Game
26th September 2018
Move one digit from one of the two numbers, over to the other, so that the result of the sum is correct.
Views 115, Upvotes 30
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Move One Digit
Blog
26th September 2018
After realising how bloomin' simple yesterday's version of Solve A,B,C was, I spent an hour or so trying to find the most convoluted of puzzles.
I think the maths should be fairly complex, now, but am more convinced than ever, that figuring out the solution isn't as mathematically simple as it should be.
Added Move One Digit, which needed a brief explanation.
Currently considering adding a similarly short description to each of the panels.
Views 132, Upvotes 44
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Solve A,B,C
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25th September 2018
Further tweaking to the Find a Way maze generator. Things are hopefully a little more varied, now, and I've also upgraded the solution display.
Added Solve A, B, C. (Thanks to Liam Kelk for suggesting it.)
I'm not 100% convinced that it's do-able, and will have to sit and try to solve a few of the puzzles over the next day or two..
Quite honestly, my maths brain has melted from all the coding, tonight!!
Views 128, Upvotes 32
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Wordlist Upgrade
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23rd September 2018
A minor update to the way Word Ladder is generated, which has sped the whole thing up by a remarkable amount.
What took about 3 or 4 seconds, yesterday, now only takes around 0.2 seconds.
Optimisation is the key!
Technically, instead of checking each and every word in the list, I first ensured the wordlist was properly alphabetised..
Next I jump through the list in groups of 1500 words, until "over", then do a quick sift between the 1500 chunk of words.
This is the "Normal" way to do wordlists, but...
Views 84, Upvotes 21
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19th September 2018
Rewrote a significant portion of Sudoku thanks to feedback from @JulieMontoya20. The puzzles are a lot easier, now, but should at least be doable!
Added Word Ladder.
It's a little bit slow. Hopefully I can find a way to speed that up.
Note : Due to the way I've rewritten the Random Words code, (so the Word Ladder worked!) Yesterday's Solutions will not work properly for today or tomorrow.
Views 169, Upvotes 28
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Sudoku
Game
17th September 2018
Fill in the grid such that no row or column contain duplicates of the numbers 1 through 9.
In addition, each of the nine bordered 3x3 miniature grids should also contain the numbers 1 through 9. Views 99, Upvotes 26
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Sudoku
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17th September 2018
Finally happy with the Find a Way maze generation. The mazes aren't the "best" mazes in the world, but are at least now a bit better than a straight vertical line!
Added Sudoku.
Since Sudoku is fairly complex to generate, rather than being wholly generated by the script, I've opted to pre-generate 2000 number grid layouts, which then get numbers plucked from them to give a final puzzle.
Views 97, Upvotes 24
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Solutions
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16th September 2018
Added a "Yesterday's Solutions" option to the bottom of the site. Click to switch between viewing today's puzzles or yesterday's solutions.
The solutions "should" be functioning properly, but may occasionally glitch if I tweak too much of the underlying ProcGen code for the puzzles.
Updated Number Target to remove instances where it would do "n x 1", which resulted in uninteresting maths!
Updated Crossed to remove some of the 8-letter word's letters.
Added Find a Way. I might rejig...
Views 130, Upvotes 24
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A Website
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15th September 2018
Finally got v1 of the main website up and running.
Simple drop down menu items and a puzzle page.
Nothing too fancy, just enough that you can select from the growing collection of puzzles.
Views 155, Upvotes 30
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Anagrams
Game
14th September 2018
Try to find as many words as you can within each group of letters.
Can you find the full length anagram for each set? Views 104, Upvotes 29
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Number Target
Game
14th September 2018
For each of the two puzzles, use the numbers given, and your mathematical prowess, to generate the larger Target value.
Views 103, Upvotes 26
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Font Change
Blog
14th September 2018
Switched to using a TTF font instead of PHP's default rubbish font.
Source Code Pro
..Which 1001fonts.com says is free to use, so if it isn't, blame them!
Views 123, Upvotes 19
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