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it's australia engulfing europe for me.

Highly enjoyable (after I finally read the definitions of "neighbor" and "to the right/left")! Did you write a program that can automatically generate these?? I'll definitely try this again. Note, the emoji graphic in "share" might be buggy? I'm seeing one green checkmark, one green square, and four red squares..

Thank you so much for trying out the game and taking the time to write the feedback!

I did! That was the main workload of this project, and is still ongoing. I have ideas for improvements, and I also have to fix some sentences manually sometimes. But it's getting there.

The sharing shows a kind of "health bar". Every time you make an illogical guess, it reduces one. Running out of "health" doesn't prevent you from completing the puzzle, but it does show up in your share. Based on this, you made 4 "illogical" guesses. If you didn't, then there's a bug. But feels like I should anyways clarify this, if it wasn't clear to you. Thanks again!


I was in a situation where I had to guess. It would be nice if there was a hint (after a successful guess) on why that box was 'ready for solve'. i.e., what other reveals can lead to this box being ready for a Innocent/Guilty choice.

I did enjoy the game though. Re-reading the clues is helpful - reinitialize your context window!


I wonder where you felt like you had to guess. The puzzles are always solvable with logic. Your guess must have been by chance also logically deductible!

I think it's the green checkmark and the green square that are confusing. Like why is there a check on the first green square and not the second one? Maybe it would be cleaner without any checkmark at all? Anyway, nice game, I shared it with my sister who also wants to solve more of them!

I can see the confusion. I have to think about it. Thanks for sharing!

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nice try, guys


Many see a value in "natural" objects that is absent in those engineered by man. There is a raw energy and story behind it. Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?


Many marketers have convinced you of that. To many, the story is a story of blood and tears. Diamond mines are terrible places.


Would you be just as awe-struck by a magnificent waterfall built by engineers flowing atop beautiful factory-produced rocks as one created by geologic forces over millennia?

Why wouldn't I be? Human creations can be every bit as awe-inspiring as anything found in nature.

No waterfall is as impressive as a smartphone, if you know what you're looking at and what it took to make it happen.


I've seen some beautiful waterfalls.

But none of them filled me with awe the way that the Hoover Dam did.

What story is there behind a rock in the ground outside of a middle-school tier earth science lecture?


^ What he said. There's something in story/branding/nostalgia too.


The Bellagio in Vegas is pretty awesome.


Isn't 202TB (for comparison) way too small to contain every permutation of information? That filesize wouldn't even be able to store a film enthusiast's collection?


Well it all comes down to encoding, doesn't it. We can represent almost everything with just 0 and 1 as well, can't we? The description of that data is way bigger than the elements used to describe it of course.


i.e. investment bankers in hoodies


I'm having this problem too.


Also having this problem. I think it's some kind of A/B testing, but not directly associated with accounts. I had 2 friends in other cities try a search on mobile, and for one it worked correctly, and the other got bullshit results for other sites.

Sometimes, but not always, if you scroll to the end you'll then get all of the actual site: results. This may or may not indicate anything, such as it being a bug.

This is NOT because the site: being searched had a lack of results.

Other commentary: “They kill site: for some % of the users and then gauge the number of complaints. but unless they get some kind of overwhelming backlash just short of actual rioting, they’ll probably go ahead/have already decided to fully kill site: and even further degrade the utility of the search engine. It’s hopelessly frustrating because the barrier to entry for a new search engine is gonna be very high, millions of dollars.

And too many people just do nothing, their lives are worse for it, and everyone who does do something has to do it for 10 other people just for a chance that it might not get ruined, and it can be exhausting”


Ok seriously that was supposed to be a reply to the post, not a comment FFS

Edit: Apparently I can't reply to the post anymore, due to undefined reasons.


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Genomics data has entered the chat.


Impressive, but it seems to have hallucinated Lilly's ___location.


Understanding the Universe, an Introduction to Astronomy[0] -- a video lecture series by Alex Filippenko

[0] https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLez3PPtnpncSF2QwpCB9C...


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