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So I was just rereading the post before bedtime and I looked at the screenshots from 3-9 and I said to myself, “Self, the rule for 3-9 is fucking obvious” and I immediately went and blasted through the puzzles from 3-9 I had been unable to solve, though it took me a little while to do 3-9-8. It seems as though Understand gives you more feedback than The Witness’s “guess what Blow is thinking” levels in that it can tell you which rules you’ve violated, but boy, I have solutions for everything in 2.5 I think it is and I couldn’t begin to tell you what the last rule is. Anyway the levels I currently have left are all impossible. I forget whether I’ve solved one level since then or not. I wound up getting a hint for level 30 and it was a very good hint, I looked at it and said “that’s still impossible” and then I realized what I had to do, and I felt bad for not seeing it as a possibility. I wanted to say something about getting a similar vibe of mercilessness as with Yugo Puzzle but Yugo Puzzle is really the opposite, it has one mechanic (though it takes a little while to understand that mechanic) and it introduces another mechanic whose workings are pretty transparent and I can think of like one edge case? But also everything is impossible. I solved at least two levels by having my mouse slip.

I’ve taken a look too! I did all the 1 levels including the ? but I am utterly banjaxed by some of the level 2s. Previous Puzzlework: The Confounding Calendar

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Understand is available on Steam for Windows and Mac. How can you possibly call yourself a master if the knowledge you acquire is never used? Every foothold on its puzzle mountain is unique and each stage of your ascent will feel like your first. While puzzle games are usually about displaying a mastery of the rules, Understand never lets you feel like that. But there aren’t enough of those questioning moments to undermine my relationship with Understand. Not all of the challenges are winners and there have been a few moments where I’ve questioned the design. Understand might look a little austere but it compensates with the colour and beauty in its puzzle structure.

Understanding seldom hits like a lightning strike but coalesces gradually through moments of maybes and pauses of perhaps. Solutions are rarely unique and only by sifting through both solutions and non-solutions across multiple puzzles will inspiration eventually find you. These black boxes need to be tested to destruction. You can’t simply scratch out the solution to each puzzle and infer the rules that’s not enough work to earn wisdom. Understand is a laboratory of logic and I am its chief scientist.

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Breaking news, just in! I wiped the solution so I could share a non-spoilery puzzle screenshot with you, but now I’ve forgotten how to solve it. If you want to know why you can’t just juice your way through every puzzle with random squiggles, let me introduce you to the eighth and final puzzle in the sequence.Īnd even once you’ve figured out the rules, solving this boss puzzle is sweaty brain time. Here’s the fourth puzzle and its batshit solution. But it definitely seems like connecting circles is part of the solution? I actually begin to think that maybe… maybe the puzzle really is this simple? That can’t be right, surely. Fool me twice, can’t get fooled again, as a great man once said.īut the third puzzle continues the trend, gaslighting me on an industrial scale.

My first stab-in-the-dark guess was to connect the circles together and that’s the puzzle solved. Oh look, Understand continues to troll me with the second puzzle. I’ve seen enough of Understand to know it is never this simple. I’ve got the battle scars and the bloody T-shirt already. It appears that the rule might be “connect the circles”. The three circles at the bottom of the screen are filled in. Just draw across the circles, from left to right.Ĭool, the puzzle is solved. The first puzzle always tells you how to solve it. Nutshell: Hard but addictive, replete with punch-the-air moments of victory. Now imagine a puzzle game that is just that: have you played Understand (Artless Games, 2020)? But, first, the rules themselves are the puzzle. Sometimes it even makes sense to backtrack a little and test out your rule theories. Instead, it offers a few easily-solved tutorial puzzles from which you can reverse engineer the rules. The Witness does not explain how the puzzle panels are solved.

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