Shiakaku of the Day

[napoleongl]

https://shikakuofthe.day/

[alejohausner]

Of course Simon Tatham’s puzzle collection includes this one. He calls it “rectangle”. You can configure the game to leave spaces around the numbers, which increases the difficulty. There’s a web based version here: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/js/rect...

[tangus]

If you like these kind of games, there are millions of them at https://puzz.link/db/

[ramchip]

There's a typo in the current title: Shiakaku -> Shikaku (Japanese for "square")

[napoleongl → ramchip]

Oh, sorry, thanks! Think i rewrote it due to autocorrect three times but apparently I slipped nonetheless!

[zeitgeistcowboy]

There’s a game on Apple Arcade called stitch if you want a much larger and more difficult version of this.

[cgio → zeitgeistcowboy]

Stitch is much easier than the advanced levels of this one. I would know having spent quite a few hours on stitch trying to get to top 1000. Also stitch had introduced shikakus at some point.

[anigbrowl → zeitgeistcowboy]

You can choose other skill levels for bigger grids

[nicoty]

#ShikakuOfTheDay #EASY240413 02:39.21 #MEDIUM240413 04:40.83 #HARD240413 12:20.11 #EXPERT240413 58:44.96 https://shikakuofthe.day

I imagine master will take a couple of hours to complete, so I didn’t even attempt it.

[dnsge]

This is great. Reminds me of the "Flow Free" game on the Apple App Store.

[DigitalHackOp]

I don't understand how to make a rectangle of size 5.

[zeitgeistcowboy → DigitalHackOp]

1 x 5

[DigitalHackOp → zeitgeistcowboy]

Wow. I feel very dumb. Thanks for the correction :)

[sammoe13]

It occurs to me that a decent strategy on the large boards is to look for larger primes, since they are likely to only work one way

[napoleongl]

A small puzzle game that I find to be a reasonable pastime. Author has also done rabble.se but that is only in Swedish.

[therealfiona]

Congratulations, this is a great nerd snipe.

How long before someone makes the AI for this?

[bsza]

Typo in title, should be “shikaku” (Japanese for quadrilateral).

[zero-sharp → bsza]

https://youtu.be/PcjFVTI4_Gw?si=X-FEhDR9rMqhLMwP