Notes from the workshop
How we make our word and logic games: puzzle design, the code behind the grids and what we learn from players.
Star Battle: why every puzzle is checked for a single solution
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Behind the daily grid sits a small solver that rejects any board with more than one answer. Here is how it works and why it matters.
Combinations: how we make a word game where every word counts
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How the Combinations word game works, why every real word you can spell is accepted, and how each daily puzzle is built and checked.
How to solve nonograms, and how we make every picture guess-free
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Read the clues, use the overlap trick and let rows and columns do the work. Plus how we turn emoji into picture puzzles you never have to guess.