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The important take-away for the "Hard" criteria cards is that each verifier is only verifying one of the criteria listed on the card, and your task is to work out what each verifier knows rather than to find the final code. Once you know what each verifier knows, only one code will satisfy...

Thank you for the detailed response. By using a test code of 353, I was able to confirm that b<=yp and p<=by, implying that b=p. Knowing that b=p, I was able to eliminate 233 as an option without using E. Was my reasoning valid or am I missing something? F knows only that Bl is smallest/joint small...

In my opinion, if somebody is using "solvers" for me it's not a problem. Basically, I suppose, a solver tries to do the same "deep deduction" we "humans" try to do with pen and paper, or Excel, or other home made tools (I'm a software engineer and it's very funny to wr...

I think they've listened to the backlash: I just successfully created a turn-based table in Simple mode.

Stopping competitive features is understandable, but stopping turn-based games? Ridiculous! I will only ever play this game turn-based; that's the only way that's enjoyable for me. I've been a huge supporter of this game, but that decision completely kills online play for me. Please reconsider the t...

Blue=Purple does not by itself imply that there is no 1. You still need the other verifier to tell you that. A verifier is redundant if you can remove it without changing the possible solutions. In this case, removing that number of 1s verifier when Blue=Purple would mean that 141 is now possible, s...

In each specific puzzle, the verifier for that criteria card will know just one of the facts listed there. Others might of course also be true, but that is irrelevant to this verifier; the verifier knows only one of the facts, and will give you answers based on whether your code does or does not mat...

Sorry, don't get it. How do you deduct with the 15 that P is the highest ? Thanks, The rule you are probably missing is that each verifier must be required to find the answer... so no verifier can be redundant. If card 15 said "Blue is largest" or "Yellow is largest" then you wo...

The important question: if you completely remove a verifier from the game, do you still get the same unique solution? If so, that verifier is redundant and so the combination of answers from the other verifiers is incorrect. So yes, if you have not used D at all in your deductions so far, and using ...

All of this is to say, and as I felt Nachito alluded, that with a large skill imbalance I foresee the number of people wanting to play competitively will shrink, providing fewer and fewer opponents for those still wanting to play competitively. In the long-run it serves no one to have a large skill...