Show HN: Got sick of ads, so I made my own logic puzzle site

pavel_lishin

This is nice! Readers may also enjoy Simon Tatham's puzzle collection, available for mobile as well: https://www.chiark.greenend.org.uk/~sgtatham/puzzles/ (My favorite currently is Dominosa. Playing the Hard mode is teaching me new patterns.)

abhashanand1501

How do you plan to keep it free from ads? I see it has accounts, if it was completely client side, it could have been forever free.

GL26

Please copy the LinkedIn Games !

iooi

Nice job! I made something similar, mostly for myself: https://www.vexling.com Plan to keep it forever free :)

underyx

I feel like the Nonogram is AI generated? There’s no way a human would set a perfectly symmetrical “diamond” as a medium difficulty puzzle. Worse yet, the hard difficulty is just “big diamond”, the same thing on a slightly larger grid.

vova_hn2

By the way, if you are interested in nonograms specifically, there is a great website nonograms.org that has tens of thousands nonograms (both B&W and color) and no ads.

ChrisRR

Well i like the theory but all of your nonograms are symmetrical or diamonds. Not exactly much of a puzzle And what sort of monster doesn't have nonogram sizes in multiples of 5?

inigyou

Are you blocking Tor?

neogodless

I'm 99% sure this was an invalid Sudoku puzzle. Just before putting the 2 in here (above the pencil 6), I put in 6 and it said Mistake, so I erased it and put 2. But... why wouldn't 6 be valid there? https://imgur.com/a/aOnKbiT EDIT: As per replies, "X" Sudoku is variant with a different rule. While I saw the diagonals "highlighted" in another color, I didn't know that rule. Perhaps it could be added to the page for those unfamiliar with this non-standard Sudoku variant?

insane_dreamer

Nice! A few word games would be cool: scrabble, boggle, etc.

yunruse

Nice! I wanted to share a link to Ripple Effect Hard with my time (23:47), but it seems the URL only captures attempts, so there's no real way to link to the puzzle itself. Might be useful to - add a wordle-style 'SHARE' button, and/or - make the canonical URL that of the puzzle (and only the attempt on completing/abandoning it)

SpyCoder77

The homepage is a little overwhelming, other than that cool site

ori_b

I took a quick look at the source: // Fire view events (e.g. unlock_prompt_viewed) for any monetization prompt // present in the freshly loaded page. data-analytics-view-events is a JSON // array so one rendered prompt can report several events at once. What's a monetization prompt?

furyofantares

Looks great. FYI, Claude has idunno, maybe 20-30 different strongly themed websites it knows how to make, and this newspaper aesthetic is one of them, and all the sites it does this way look exactly the same. It's a good aesthetic for your site, and I thought it was a good one for one of my sites. But eventually I redesigned my site significantly when I saw that it's gonna be common among vibed-up website designs and they look exactly the same.

lschueller

> Create a free account to keep playing. Sign up or log in to create an account, save your progress, and continue this difficulty. And here we are again. A nice idea, ai generated, for grabbing email addresses... Not even trying to give it a human touch. Is this the new spam? Hundreds of sites and web apps forcing you to sign up with a temp email address for no good reason?

WolfeReader

The "Hard" big diamond nonogram was not hard at all. Are you vibe-coding these?

chadgpt3

After starting a nonogram level, it seems you can't go back to it because you're just prompted to sign up or log in. As mentioned already they're also shitty puzzles.

bluecoconut

For those who like these types of puzzles, i made a benchmark called pencil puzzle bench Testing AI model's ability to solve puzzles like these. https://ppbench.com/ Can play the puzzles and compare your timing and accuracy to many AI models on the leaderboards

trizoza

> Play in dark mode Only after you create an account? Oh my lord

butz

Not really sure if you can call Nonogram a puzzle, when you give the answer right in the title.