Wellington testers + Activities vs 8.2-759

[Martin Langhoff]

On Sun, Sep 7, 2008 at 10:39 AM,  <joe at jotaro.com> wrote:
> Thanks for testing!

No problem, was good fun too!

>> Implode-4
>> - works well an 3 XOs tried!
>> - The first ("easy"?) puzzle is not one you can use so it's fairly
>> confusing.
>> - Loading a large puzzle is also quite slow. (Is it trying to compute
>> whether it's "winnable"?)
>
> Yes, Implode tries to only create solvable boards; the time taken depends
> somewhat on the random number generator and increases with the size of the
> puzzle.

I thought as much -

> I'm not sure what is meant by "the first puzzle is not one you can use"...
> If you mean that the puzzle is not solvable, that shouldn't happen, and
> should be considered a bug if it did.  But I have not yet encountered such a
> board; in my experience every puzzle that initially appears unsolvable
> turned out to be solvable when I undid a few moves and tried again.  Or did
> you mean that "easy" is not easy enough?

Well, I get a "3 block" puzzle. Perhaps I don't understand the rules
completely, but clicking on the blocks didn't do anything interesting.
Other testers suggested I tried the larger games / blocksets and with
those I managed to get some implosions going, though I didn't manage
to solve one.

cheers,


m
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