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An unnecessarily deep dive into the board game Gizmos

2024-12-31
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Gizmos is a nifty engine building game themed around collecting a bunch of little gadgets that work together. I would guess about 0.2% of the people reading this wonder about questions like "what's the maximum theoretically possible score?" or "what's the fastest theoretically possible game?" To those 0.2% of people... I'm so glad you asked!

Penalty theory in wall puzzles

2024-07-27
long (2330 words) puzzleslogic puzzlesmath

Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.

Wait, it feels like I've written this intro before...

A Slay the Spire puzzle

2024-02-21
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You are peacefully going about your day when you are suddenly thrust into the following position in a game of Slay the Spire. What do you do?

Penalty theory in dynasty puzzles

2022-07-27
very long (4610 words) puzzleslogic puzzlesmath

Nikoli-style pencil-and-paper logic puzzles, like Sudoku, Yajilin, and many more, have very simple rules. But you can often build puzzles that require thinking in really cool ways, seemingly totally unrelated to what the rules literally say.