Sep 29, 2026, 7:54 PM@collinsworth I am loving this!
But am also very confused by this hint. I've had it show me the answer, but I still just can't see how to get there logically.
Another hint that helps explain why say a yellow 1 is incorrect would be so good to help me learn 😅
@sarajw @collinsworth I’ve had to do a lot of hint showing too because I am so not a logical thinker.
And agreed, explaining why something is incorrect would help me see it way better.
Love the game and have been playing as much as I can to improve my logic!
@starshaped @sarajw Thank you both! FWIW: the learning curve is steep at first. I also had to use a lot of hints to get the hang of it. (Sometimes still do.)
Most of the time, these situations can be read as "you're close to a deduction on one layer, but you need to look at the other layer to get there."
Here, you have two 2's already filled in, and only two possible ways the remaining twos could go. The number layer alone could go either way, so cross-check it with the color layer. Would you still be able to get every color of 2 on the board both ways?
Sep 29, 2026, 8:20 PM@collinsworth @starshaped thank yooouuu!
Sep 29, 2026, 8:41 PM@collinsworth @starshaped I think I'm missing the ability to add pencil marks like I do for the harder sudokus - where you can eliminate say a pair of digits or colours from the rest of a row even if you don't know exactly which goes where yet.
That would probably be hard to implement here though!
Sep 29, 2026, 9:05 PM@sarajw @collinsworth @starshaped oh yeah, those pencil marks on sudoku are super helpful.
I appreciate that this lets me play without enabling cookies. So many sites artificially block content from even loading when they can't write cookies or to the cache.
@collinsworth @starshaped @sarajw lately I've been dining lately that I can tell which one it *should* be when I get down to two options, looking at the things that it can't be but I'm still sometimes having trouble on making the final jump as to why thats the answer. I'm sure it will start to become more natural
@McNeely @collinsworth @sarajw I’m hoping it does for me too, but I tried playing Clues by Sam for a bit and it was so, so hard and it made me think I don’t have the correct kind of brain to do these. That’s been the hardest thing for me, getting down on myself because I don’t feel like I’m good enough for these games. I fully know that’s a me thing, though!
@starshaped @McNeely @sarajw The hints are there to be used. :)
@starshaped @McNeely @sarajw FWIW, I just pushed an update to make some of the hints clearer. Now, when the hint relates to a number+color combo, instead of showing you a square and telling you only one combo can go there, it tells you exactly what the combo is, and then has you find the one place where that combo can go.
I think that inversion provides a much clearer path from hint to solution, and so it should hopefully be a lot more helpful both for finding the next move, and for helping players learn how to see it on their own.
Sep 30, 2026, 8:12 AM@collinsworth awesome, thank you :)
Just a note to say you're getting a lot of feedback because we like the game so much and want to play it and learn it :D
Sep 30, 2026, 8:15 AM@collinsworth I literally just refreshed and got a new style hint and yeeessss I like it.
Sep 30, 2026, 8:32 AM@starshaped in case it helps I was recently linked to a clues by Sam and I was like ugghhh no that's too much. It was late at night when I looked though, lol. It seemed like too much information.
I really enjoy games with very simple rules that can lead to intricate problems, rather than a lot of information that once processed, gives you the answer. If that makes sense?
Sep 29, 2026, 8:20 PM@starshaped @collinsworth oh wait I might have rubber ducked my way there... I have two 2s... I will need a blue 2 at some point, and maybe that's the only place it will go...