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Glad you enjoyed it!","format":"md","likes":0,"spam":"N"},{"id":1032627,"author_name":"cibums","author_uid":"cibums","epoch":1713150514,"text":"This is great. This is exactly what I want in a game jam entry. Simple, not too much happening, but a good concept, where I have to think a bit. The art is simple, but fits very well.\n\nSimple and great.\n\nGood work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1032649,"author_name":"LDJam user 386211","author_uid":"386211","epoch":1713151024,"text":"Yessss! This is my kind of game! You could probably sell this to the New York Times...","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1032703,"author_name":"LDJam user 391347","author_uid":"391347","epoch":1713152009,"text":"Played all the tutorial levels in about half an hour just now. I like it a lot! Only snag I felt is that clearing slots isn't as convenient as it could be, as Owtuvammo already mentioned.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1033069,"author_name":"Alexandru Barbanoua","author_uid":"alexandru-barbanoua","epoch":1713162704,"text":"Interesting realization + for innovation ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1034034,"author_name":"Phobos","author_uid":"phobos","epoch":1713185982,"text":"Funny little game, I had a bit of trouble on the hardest level but I managed to make it. Nice visuals","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1036900,"author_name":"LDJam user 384191","author_uid":"384191","epoch":1713223762,"text":"Aww yesss: maths! Nice take on the theme. The game is really polished, great job!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1037874,"author_name":"Two1San","author_uid":"two1san","epoch":1713232229,"text":"as a math nerd, i can only enjoy this ahah, love the ui too! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1042094,"author_name":"JulienLussiez","author_uid":"julienlussiez","epoch":1713266098,"text":"This is an interesting concept. It works well and it's educational. ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1043090,"author_name":"OgelGames","author_uid":"ogelgames","epoch":1713272234,"text":"Awesome game! Super simple idea, but really well executed and surprisingly difficult.","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1044496,"author_name":"alanbrook","author_uid":"alanbrook","epoch":1713280426,"text":"Quite difficult. I wonder if adding more constraints would be interesting - like an equation that has to be valid across the circle, with a big \"+\" in the center of it? Particularly for the expert mode, it's so large that it felt like a lot of guessing and checking. Still, entertaining","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051360,"author_name":"Firebelley","author_uid":"firebelley","epoch":1713318929,"text":"Amazing game! I felt like it was just the right balance of difficulty. The daily puzzles are super interesting too, I'm assuming those will be randomly generated based on the current date?\n\nDefinitely consider developing this one some more. So much fun even with the short experience available here.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1051503,"author_name":"Kiseki","author_uid":"kiseki","epoch":1713321102,"text":"thats an amazing math puzzle! feels like sudoku. its hard to say if its related to summoning, but good work!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1052091,"author_name":"Foursay","author_uid":"foursay","epoch":1713330576,"text":"this entry is amazing! It definitely has the potential to make itself the new daily puzzle for newspaper website lol, trying to spent 60s to beat the daily puzzle and it feels great!","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1054287,"author_name":"ValentinWB","author_uid":"valentinwb","epoch":1713357935,"text":"Oh that is a nice one ! I find it impressive you came up with such a simple yet clever idea for a puzzle game, well done !","format":"md","likes":2,"spam":"N"},{"id":1056372,"author_name":"LDJam user 384578","author_uid":"384578","epoch":1713378640,"text":"Really cool concept, I love math game and it works very well","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1057317,"author_name":"DeadInfinity","author_uid":"deadinfinity","epoch":1713386417,"text":"Fun little puzzle, very unique! I think it'd need just a bit more depth to be playable every day in a newspaper, but as a one off it was great.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1060560,"author_name":"thomz12","author_uid":"thomz12","epoch":1713451412,"text":"Very fun puzzles! Had me thinking quite a bit. Having daily puzzles is a nice touch! ","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1062377,"author_name":"squp","author_uid":"squp","epoch":1713478529,"text":"this is a cute game, the pun name however is really the only thing that pushes this game towards the theme. I love the idea though, I'd love this as a -dle type game or something","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1070377,"author_name":"LDJam user 339673","author_uid":"339673","epoch":1713764592,"text":"This is puzzling; Helps my brain maintain thinking.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1070378,"author_name":"LDJam user 339673","author_uid":"339673","epoch":1713764655,"text":"And, this game has a certain level of sophistication that other works don't have.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1071046,"author_name":"ellaris","author_uid":"ellaris","epoch":1713808787,"text":"Pretty cool, the last expert tutorial and daily took some time to figure out, but it was nice.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1072310,"author_name":"Aarimous","author_uid":"aarimous","epoch":1713903207,"text":"Nice work, I love math and had some fun with a few of those puzzles. Nice work executing on a core idea.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1075393,"author_name":"happyglitch","author_uid":"happyglitch","epoch":1714309649,"text":"Really cool idea. In my opinion the tutorial levels are a lot more fun then the daily puzzles. The daily puzzles seem like the only way to solve them is to try all the possibilities.","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076687,"author_name":"benskca","author_uid":"benskca","epoch":1714511021,"text":"This was super polished and very fun! I loved the wizard pop-up + particle effects when you finish a puzzle. Once the puzzles started including the modulo operator they got super interesting, I did all the practice ones and the three dailies :sunglasses:\n\nAre you procedurally generating the daily puzzles or did you design them?","format":"md","likes":1,"spam":"N"},{"id":1076978,"author_name":"Rawb","author_uid":"rawb","epoch":1714565699,"text":"@benskca I am glad you enjoyed the game. The daily puzzles are procedurally generated using a seed based off the date. The tutorial puzzles were authored by me to teach the player the rules of the game. 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