Had a one off idea while making dinner last night, sat down to make it this morning.
I don't know if I got the difficulties right. Purple is definitely the weakest in theme.
u/pothocboots — 22 hours ago
r/fourbythreegame
So far my friends have told me it’s been too difficult
My first attempt. Let me know if I made it too hard so I know going forward. I had fun with it though.
u/ThePimpOfShrimp — 2 days ago
Tried to make a tricky one!
I've deduced 3 main ways to make a puzzle tricky:
- It is just incredibly superfluous with difficult words.
- The common word/category is not easily identifiable
- Red Herrings
I am really struggling to make some red herrings! I included one not so obvious trick in this one, but mainly relied on number 2. Mark my words, my next one will be rife with red herrings!
EDIT: As pointed out, I have been a complete dumbass - a >!doe is not a baby deer!!<** **I am so embarrassed!
u/Willing-Feature-9897 — 4 days ago
Annoying bug
I’ve had this bug the last few days on mobile where after I finish a puzzle it only shows what three of the categories were. So if I fail or I don’t understand what one of them is supposed to be i just can’t find out and it really bugs me. Has anyone else had this?
u/HEX_HEXAGON — 6 days ago
Did I do this right?
My first attempt. I might need to change some things. It's harder to come up with your own than I expected it to be!
u/_trashmaggot — 8 days ago
does anyone know how the url generation works
like i must assume that it's encrypted somehow in the url. i can imagine a few possibilities
- when you make a new puzzle, hank's server stores the contents of the puzzle and generates a new random url to that puzzle. fine, will eventually have to deal with hash collisions, stores increasing amounts of data on the server (bad)
- the server decodes the url to a game. this would make sense but makes me curious about what the file format is on the game.
the games themselves cannot be that big - actually i tried to make a really big game and it didn't stop me? but then it didn't give me a link. like everything worked up until the link generation. a non-malicious game cannot be that big. is there a character limit on the text boxes? why or why not? for most browsers, urls cannot be arbitrarily long, so there's a hard limit on how much data can be stored (if the data is actually being stored in the url rather than the url pointing to a game stored server-side)
does anyone know?
u/FiniteFieldsOfStars — 11 days ago
My first attempt
I wanted to try my hand at creating a 4x3 puzzle of my own. Here it is, tell me what you think!
u/-Setherton- — 10 days ago