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Omg, I got "The Meeting Multiplier"


Cool idea! I'm wondering how did you come up with such an idea?


> As I often do nowadays, I outsourced the most important decision of my year—where to move—to ChatGPT

Laughed at this part. Living in Canada myself I was able to relate to many points there.


Short and sweet was the goal. Cheers for giving it a go.


Glad you enjoyed the mind-bend


Hah! Makes me feel better about struggling with level 3.


Oh that's cool - I had no idea it was used in UK schools, thanks for sharing this!


Thanks! Might play with more levels if people keep enjoying it.


Ha, you're not the first to say that about level 3! I think I accidentally made the difficulty curve a bit wonky there. Glad you had fun with it!


I'm curious about the difficulty curve. As long as the puzzles take the form "group of left-facing frogs - empty pad - group of right-facing frogs", they'll all have exactly the same solution. If you can do level 2, you can do level 2222 without needing to come up with any new ideas.

This kind of blocks the notion of a "difficulty curve" - it's just a flat line.

Level 4 is different, but I'm guessing the reason people say it's easier is that the frogs on the left never need to interact in any way with the frogs on the right. You can just march your left-frogs onto the transformer, see them turn around, and march them back to their ultimate destination, then repeat the process on the right.

I don't think there's any solution that would allow a frog to jump over the transformer, so you're essentially required to do this - all frogs must make their way to the transformer, transform, and go back home - although you can make it look more or less complex. This essentially gives you two copies of the "level 3 and below" puzzle, one on the left of the transformer and the other on the right.


Glad you found it cute. Was aiming for that mix of simple looks but tricky solution.


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