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Hey HN,

I built this simple puzzle generator to play around with wasm a bit.

It's open source if anyone wants to play around with the code https://github.com/lnenad/puzzlip

Neat, but the "Diffictulty" slider is a bit of a misnomer, IMHO. Puzzles with more pieces just take longer. I'm not sure what would be a better label, though. (If I were feeling uncharitable, I would propose "Tedium", or perhaps "Carpal Tunnel Risk" :-)

I wonder if there might be a way of changing the difficulty without changing the number of pieces? Like maybe putting gridlines between the pieces, so that you can't actually see the seamless connection between two correctly-oriented pieces?

9 days agoby doodpants

This could be a nice distraction, but unfortunately the interaction latency makes it feel so sluggish I can’t get into flow.

9 days agoby tobr

really nice. Unfortunately once I spotted the score tells you you've hit the correct rotation, I just looped over all the squares clicking each one until my points went up.

9 days agoby manucardoen

Wild that you've posted this once a year for the last 3 years. Love it

9 days agoby yungtriggz

I'd love to see a button added to show what pieces are wrong. There are a couple of images with heavy vignette so the edges are pretty indistinguishable. It'd be cool if I could get the incorrect pieces bordered or similar.

9 days agoby Jeremy1026

Have had this bookmarked for a very long time and go back to it semi regularly.

Any chance you can load a bunch of stock photos into the various categories? I think there's only ~8 or so in each.

8 days agoby dankwizard

Would be even more satisfying if 180 degree turns were less common.

I also wonder how hard it would be to tile with different shapes. Hexagons or squares and octagons could be really neat.

9 days agoby thomastjeffery

Seeing the image come into focus is pretty satisfying, and the half-solved puzzle looks pretty cool. Nice job

9 days agoby b450

It's interesting that the pieces don't get moved, only rotated.

9 days agoby clutch89

The easiest option is still too hard for my son.

9 days agoby causeisunknown

this is nice. would also be fun to solve it with computer vision

9 days agoby knowitnone

nice app it could be fun to also animate the puzzle solution

9 days agoby horsellama