I kept playing hungry cat even after the interface got worse and
I am out of puzzles
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It hasnāt updated on my phone yet, but Iām close to running out
the update includes the 2017 puzzles which is why I kept going with the update, an extra year of puzzles
Iām very scared of the update after hearing folks talk about it earlier in this thread. Iām thinking maybe I should put off updating the app until I run out of puzzles or they make me.
I finished up all the Mega Picross puzzles in Picross e7 which I guess means that I get to check out Micross for myself.
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I donāt have this game, but Iām curious, whatās the problem with the update?
It looks different
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Sounds horrible.
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I beat braincross in two days and am now working my way through pixoji
Iām worried they wonāt last me till this weekend when I need a picross to play on the plane
Someone send me more picross games
the biggest issue with braincross was most of the puzzles didnāt make images at the end so the only reward was solving byzantine clues.
simon tathamās puzzle collection has a picross, though its touchscreen implementation is a little frustrating (you canāt unmark squares once marked, only confirm or eliminate them) and itās procgen so thereās never any figures in the result
Taking the pic out of Picross.
They added a couple of dumb mobile elements (collecting gold in puzzles, buying gold for ??, buying brushes which reveal 1 row & column), erased all previous progress on the old weekly puzzles, rehashed or just copied some puzzles to eke out another 100 base puzzles, and most heinous of all switched the characteristics associated with Hufflepuff and Ravenclaw
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It really does sound horrible.
Sounds like uninstall and put on no-fly list forever, then move on to better clones.
Or emulate picross 2 and enjoy that againā¦ Such good timesā¦
Pixoji is significantly harder than braincross, I was lead to believe it was the other way around. The way pixoji blends minesweeper and picross is mindboggling
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I kinda get why, but itās weird to see a privacy policy explicitly say that they might collect and store my blood type information
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Been making my way through Pricross 3D Round 2 and I started liking it more after I started following these steps:
- use bomb
- mark all rows and columns that can only be one color
- fill out easy rows and columns with big numbers
- use the light bulb to step through the rest
At least for the big puzzles itās easy for me to get stuck otherwise, I find it hard to spot what hints lead to progress sometimes.
I do enjoy the type of coloring rules the two colors bring about. Like this is a good example imo:
The squared 5 means the five red blocks split into at least three groups (circled would mean two groups and no circle means together).
Thereās seven blocks total in this column, so to split the red blocks into three groups they must be divided by a single blue block and an empty block.
From partially filled out other rows it is clear that four blocks can only be red or empty. That only leaves one spot for the dividing blue block.
To create three groups of red blocks the bottom four blocks must be where the empty block splits the reds. So the top two blocks are red. And the bottom four can only be split by one of the blocks in their midst. So the top and bottom of those four must be red, and we arrive at:
Thereās a lot of examples like this and while a lot of it repeats, I am still regularly stumped and need to take a moment to think it through. āWhat the hell can I deduct here?ā is what I often mumble to myself. I like this more than counting longer rows in regular Picross.
Itās really satisfying not to guess, and the point system awarding different medals based on my fuck-ups keeps me on my toes, because some of the puzzles need good medals to unlock. Thereās different repeating goals that unlock more puzzles actually, but itās all pretty basic.
Yes, the controls are a bit rough, but after I remapped them they are almost second nature. I like chiseling away. Running the stylus over an entire row feels so good. That Iām still fucking up sometimes and hold the wrong button is part of the challenge, imo. Maybe itās a feature, not a bug.
My only real gripe is that the stylus controls mean you solve the puzzle on the bottom screen. So itās not in 3D! Well, you can see the sculpture you made in 3D at the end, but stillā¦
Anyway, this game is long, over 300 puzzles? Iām more than half-way done. Love the soundtrack. Itās my go-to calming exercise.
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Oddly enough I had to move to a new pick away at puzzle game (finally finished up Pushmo World yesterday) and hovered over this, but decided I needed to clean out some of my more standard picross backlog so I went to Picross e5 instead. Given that I think it took me numerous months to get through e4 and eventually Iāll buy a Switch (1 or 2) and pick up all the picross games for thatā¦ Iām gonna be doing picross forever more or less.
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