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39 pointsby windowshoppinglast Friday at 6:14 PM9 commentsview on HN

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riddleytoday at 1:03 AM

I found this very challenging. Thanks for making it.

pimlottcyesterday at 10:40 PM

The borders on the pieces obscure the edge details that you need to help match the pieces up. Often there were pieces with letters that looked like they were needed another piece to complete them but actually they were whole but the border covered the edges.

It would also be nice if I could position pieces freely outside of the board so I could test out potential matches.

In the end, it became easier to just keep trying to place pieces on the board until they stuck together automatically.

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buyTheDiptoday at 12:37 AM

Very nice. Challenging and fun. I was able to drop the pieces anywhere to test alignment. When I then moved them around got them next to the right neighbor, they glommed onto each other. No changed needed to have fun!

blobdoleyesterday at 10:40 PM

That was a lot of fun!

It would be cool if I could kind of place things "wherever I want" because sometimes I want to test if this fits here or not, and the easiest way is to place the piece there and drop it. Because the borders are less distracting/smaller after dropping it. But if I do that in a place that is not valid, it snaps back to the original position.

I once had to drag two completed chunks sequentially to one side of the puzzle area before I could test a piece I was looking at and discover it was wrong.

alanbernsteintoday at 12:39 AM

Neat. Doesn't work well in android Firefox for me.

mid1221213yesterday at 10:51 PM

Nice, fun and poetic! GG I <3 it!

BiraIgnacioyesterday at 11:12 PM

That was fun, thanks!