Author here, happy to answer questions about any part of this. The scoring weights are hand-tuned from playtesting, not learned from data. Would love to hear from anyone with psychometrics or spatial cognition experience.
You are definitely correct, and that is how I am solving all the puzzles as well. However, I've encountered many people that couldn't wrap their head around even the mirror across the fold line logic. For such people, the techniques I described help to come up with puzzles that feel "hard" for them. Thanks for giving it a try.
Author here, happy to answer questions about any part of this. The scoring weights are hand-tuned from playtesting, not learned from data. Would love to hear from anyone with psychometrics or spatial cognition experience.
By the third round, the submit button interfered with the puzzle on my S24 phone.
Thanks, I tried to make room for everything for all screen sizes but I guess I couldn't. I'll fix the layout.
should be fixed.
something very wrong with brightness of the paper - it blends in with the background so much, it's impossible to play
thanks for flagging this, the contrast is definitely too low. I'll fix this.
I don't understand what is supposed to be "hard". It seems utterly trivial to me.
In reverse order of the folds, just mirror all holes across the fold line.
You are definitely correct, and that is how I am solving all the puzzles as well. However, I've encountered many people that couldn't wrap their head around even the mirror across the fold line logic. For such people, the techniques I described help to come up with puzzles that feel "hard" for them. Thanks for giving it a try.
Relevant ICFP Programming Contest 2016
https://icfpc2016.blogspot.com/2016/08/pdf-for-task-descript...