Shiakaku of the Day
shikakuofthe.dayOf 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...
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There's a typo in the current title: Shiakaku -> Shikaku (Japanese for "square")
Oh, sorry, thanks! Think i rewrote it due to autocorrect three times but apparently I slipped nonetheless!
There’s a game on Apple Arcade called stitch if you want a much larger and more difficult version of this.
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.
You can choose other skill levels for bigger grids
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I imagine master will take a couple of hours to complete, so I didn’t even attempt it.
This is great. Reminds me of the "Flow Free" game on the Apple App Store.
Thanks for sharing this, these are great for those 10 minutes break I set for myself between one task and another. Recently someone also shared a "Guess my RGB" game which serves equally well for this purpose
I don't understand how to make a rectangle of size 5.
1 x 5
Wow. I feel very dumb. Thanks for the correction :)
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
A small puzzle game that I find to be a reasonable pastime. Author has also done rabble.se but that is only in Swedish.
Congratulations, this is a great nerd snipe.
How long before someone makes the AI for this?
Typo in title, should be “shikaku” (Japanese for quadrilateral).