hexapipes

This is a good start! Exactly like hexapipes began lol. I just wanted to make a solver to overcome my addiction to this puzzle. Come open a discussion on github if you have further questions or just want to share your progress =) https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes/discussions

I think the downloaded version of Penrose puzzles does not currently contain enough info to run a solver on it. Because the grid is different every time and this info is not present in the downloaded file. But I can tell you how it works for other grids =). The contents of `tiles` key are an array of tile shapes. Possible directions where there are connections are binary-encoded. For example, on a square grid 1 means right, 2 means up, 4 means left and 8 means down. So a 3 means a corner piece connecting up and right, a 5 is a horizontal straight piece. A 0 means an empty tile, 15 in this case is a fully connected + tile. It's similar for other grids. How the tiles are numbered depends on grid implementation. In a square 5x5 puzzle the indices would go like this: 0 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 ... You can look at grid implementations here: https://g

Hexapipes author here =). This is awesome! People kept mentioning Penrose grid to me but I didn't know where to even start with it. And then you went and made it happen! I admire the dedication it took, love collaborating with you! The bumpy history of this grid's development can be found in this issue: https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes/issues/83 First hexapipes thread for context: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=32216436

Thanks! Maybe. I think the priority is to improve the CSS so that it plays better on mobile - it should not scroll or zoom at the page level. Then maybe PWA it? Everything is client side already. Some discussion is here: https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes/issues/44

The file to look at would be this Tile component: https://github.com/gereleth/hexapipes/blob/main/src/lib/puzz... My svg handling was very much "learn as I go". An earlier version even had circles instead of hexagons because they're simpler to do. There's a cool playthrough video of that version: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vlpPr485NUY

Hello, HN - I wanted to share this puzzle game I made during my vacation. I'm rather fond of the pipes puzzle where your goal is to restore a scrambled network of connections by rotating tiles. It's usually played on a grid of squares and this all started when I decided to make a programmatic solver for that kind of puzzle. Then I realized that with some minor changes the solver could generate new puzzle instances. I thought about what kind of puzzle to make and someone suggested a hexagonal grid. Adapting the generator wasn't too hard but then I had to create a way to play this variant. So I did just that =). I find hexagonal pipes a bit more difficult than the square variant because there's a larger variety of possible tile shapes. For an extra challenge I implemented wrap mode where the board can connect to itself (right to left and to