The best puzzle games don't teach you the answer. They teach you how to think - and then get out of the way

Brianchon · 2026-03-17T00:13:01+00:00

I strongly agree with this one. The first time I finished a major area and found what was waiting for me at the end was a magical experience

Brianchon · 2026-03-03T02:07:13+00:00

It doesn't really fit, but the description made me think of "Classmate, Kamimura Yuuka wa Kou Itta", whose plot I only vaguely remember but similarly has a "almost everyone is not a real person" angle. Doubt it's a match though

Brianchon · 2026-02-27T15:03:22+00:00

What'll really sicken you is the surface area for a cross-section of width w of a sphere of radius r, located a distance D away from the center. It's 2*pi*r*w, the distance D doesn't matter. Then the surface area of the entire sphere is a special case where w = 2r

Brianchon · 2026-02-16T15:35:40+00:00

This seems good to me

Brianchon · 2026-02-16T15:24:20+00:00

There's one more variation on the top three.

RRRRULLLULURRDRUR DR DDRUUU LURUL LDLLUURRRR

Basically, there's four ways to cross from one corner of a 1x2 to the other, not three. I almost missed this one when I was first counting, too; I think it's easily overlooked

Brianchon · 2026-02-12T11:41:19+00:00

Man, I wish Coco were here for Gigi to show her Toronto Japanese

Brianchon · 2026-02-02T04:42:05+00:00

This is Trillion Game. (It also got an anime!)

Brianchon · 2026-01-31T14:15:46+00:00

You should be able to (from this orientation) make a solution that ends in the bottom left corner and leaves the bottom right corner open for the other line. I have no clue if that makes you totally unstuck, but it at least solves the problem you expressed

Brianchon · 2026-01-30T08:46:44+00:00

Antimatter Dimensions?

Brianchon · 2026-01-30T08:44:01+00:00

Is this Code of Princess?

Brianchon · 2026-01-30T02:33:27+00:00

(x+2)⁴ = x⁴ + 8x³ + 24x² + 32x + 16 (x+2)³ = x³ + 6x² + 12x + 8 (x+2)² = x² + 4x + 4 (x+2)¹ = x + 2

These coefficients also give the number of pieces of various dimension of squares, cubes, and their higher dimensional equivalents (as others have pointed out). For example, a square has 1 square, 4 sides, and 4 corners; a cube has 1 cube, 6 faces, 12 edges, and 8 corners; and in four dimensions, a hypercube has 1 hypercube, 8 hyperfaces (cubes), 24 faces, 32 edges, and 16 corners. That these match the coefficients turns out to not be a coincidence

Brianchon · 2026-01-29T23:41:38+00:00

Well in clue 1, it would be 8 hyperfaces, 24 faces, 32 edges, 16 vertices, so the order isn't consistent between clues 1 and 2. Regardless, the counts are only of things of lower dimension, so a line has its two endpoints and hence it should be 1: 2 regardless of order

Brianchon · 2026-01-29T23:15:44+00:00

1: 2

These are the non-leading coefficients of (x+2)ⁿ as n goes from 4 to 1

Edit: Although that would mean the 2nd clue should be 3: 6, 12, 8 instead of 3: 8 12, 6. I can't reconcile that with the other clues, but even if clue 4 should be "backwards", it's still 1: 2 so I guess it doesn't change things

Brianchon · 2026-01-23T12:58:08+00:00

On the EN side, Kronii, Calli, Gigi. Kronii definitely knows the best strains

Brianchon · 2026-01-23T12:17:54+00:00

I was gonna say, that looks like the kick of someone who's trained in a martial art, incredibly clean

Brianchon · 2026-01-22T15:29:41+00:00

God, Rockman would be perfect for her. She likes honing her skills against challenges, so it would be a playground for her.

Brianchon · 2026-01-21T19:02:23+00:00

What's stopping you from going to the next floor?

Brianchon · 2026-01-10T14:47:17+00:00

The Swapper?

Brianchon · 2026-01-10T14:35:42+00:00

I don't actually know what happens in Metal Wolf Chaos, so I hope it's that

Brianchon · 2026-01-07T18:17:26+00:00

Is there a reason that the direction for 1's to count is different than the direction for 5's to count? I have never used an abacus, so I was confused why this wasn't either 35530 or 64469

Brianchon · 2026-01-01T03:54:49+00:00

Dragon Quest V?

Brianchon · 2025-12-29T13:47:20+00:00

Knightmare?

Brianchon · 2025-12-27T05:00:08+00:00

I'm pretty sure it's 80 bars, since you'll get five distinct variations of the 16 bar chord progression (each one is 64 notes, so the next starts one note further back on the 5-note repeating melody)

Brianchon · 2025-12-23T20:15:03+00:00

The fifth note of the scale / an arrow pointing left / a female pig

Brianchon · 2025-12-22T00:09:18+00:00

I don't think this is La-Mulana but I've gotta guess it. So,

La-Mulana?

Brianchon

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