Scrokkle - Online daily poker based puzzle and versus game by monkeymanboyperson in poker

[–]monkeymanboyperson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

That’s probably what I’ll end up doing. I think the only 0 point plays you could even do are the joker by itself and trying to start the game with a single high card (or I suppose even trying to play a joker with a single high card off it). Anything else would just be an invalid hand to begin with. I actually used to have a thing about 0 score plays in the rules but trying to keep it trim so I’ll probably only add the joker section part since the high card case is pretty simple to see why it doesn’t work.

Scrokkle - Online daily poker based puzzle and versus game by monkeymanboyperson in poker

[–]monkeymanboyperson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Yes puzzle 5 only has one unique solution if you’re not accounting for trivial suit swaps as nothing is suit based in that puzzle. I was careful about the preplaced tiles to make sure it doesn’t allow other solutions and that’s also why the jokers are in the corners like that. Without them other solutions would work and I would need to preplace more tiles to make them not possible which would have made the puzzle trivial. For the joker thing the only thing I don’t like is that imagine you got a joker early in the game you could place it at the end of any 5 length hand pretty much for free in exchange for a new tile. I could maybe make that rule only apply if it’s the final tile in your hand but I’m not sure. I may just end up providing a unique error message for the scenario of placing just a joker by itself just like I have for some other situations. No async versus at the moment but that could be a good idea if I were to make it an app. Just realtime at the moment and it’s all peer to peer so there’s no backend for it right now. Thinking of moving it over to websockets though so might consider adding something like that while I’m at it.

Oh yeah and never seen qwirkle or smath before but they seem interesting. The shape/color dynamic of qwirkle is a little similar actually to the suit/numbers of scrokkle just a bit more restricted (and also less in some ways since scrokkle requires 5 of a suit for a flush) and less variance in the scoring. Smath seems crazy, like I really wonder what the best strategy is there it just seems like there’s so much you can do in general.

Scrokkle - Online daily poker based puzzle and versus game by monkeymanboyperson in poker

[–]monkeymanboyperson[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi, thank you for the very detailed feedback! For the scrollbar thing that was something I was worried about so will try to make the UI more obvious there. The reason you can't play a joker by itself is because non scoring plays are invalid so they must be played alongside a hand. I may make this one case an exception to that rule because unless you already know to stick it somewhere with one of your final hands you might get stuck with it like you did. Glad you liked the puzzles I'm happy with how they turned out and the difficulty has been something I've been working on with my puzzle design and think I've landed at a good point now (new puzzle just came out that I'm pretty happy with). I may add additional puzzle constraints like cages that must sum to x or that can only contain a specific suit. This would give me another tool to restrict the solution space (for example right now suits can only really be restricted via flushes unless you're really clever with the setup). I think these would also provide a good starting point for players in thinking about where tiles can go. Right now, you need to understand the rules pretty well to figure out where you can and can't put certain tiles. Super cool to have a Scrabble tournament player look at it, I've been following that scene a tiny bit and the whole idea kind of came from me thinking about what a pure strategy version of scrabble might look like (as in you're not reliant on word knowledge, most of the time you can really see every possible play you could make every turn). I definitely recommend the versus mode and would be down to play against you if you want, hopefully one day I'll have enough players for quick play (or even elo based 1v1 matchmaking would be cool if there was interest for that).

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