Re: [Tsshp-hackers] Puzzels (switches)

[Christian H. <fir...@pi...>]

jim wrote:

> This would suggest that there are 4 colours; red, violet, blue, yellow,
> which gives us a 2-bit colour field. If the multi-colour puzzles are
> always in the same order we don't need individual colour fields, so
> there's only one colour field for the whole puzzle.


multi-colour: always in the same order
2-bit colour field: the two remaining 16bit fields don't seem to be
   related to colour. but perhaps...

> Level 2 seems to have all wires same colours too, at least for some
> puzzles.


Yes - this is why I yet don't know what determines the colour.

> Not all of them necessarily have to be correct for the threshold

> to be reached.


hmm - I thought about that too - possible.

> I had a brief look last night and it seems that each wire has 4 states:
> both ends wrong, wire pointing in wrong direction; one end correct; both
> ends wrong, wire pointing in correct direction; wire in the right place.
> In that order as far as amount of power given goes. I didn't notice that
> how close an end is to its target connector makes a difference.


That was just a thought from my side - I haven't done a field test
like you did :)

> Wrong endianness.


D'OH
A big Thank You there - and again, it was something small...


> The helper trigger is indeed the state, and all of it is the state. The
> other fields in the panel, or some of them, presumably give extra
> switching nodes and/or blanks for higher difficulty levels.


As far as I have seen, the difficulty level only affects the
"side effects" of the puzzles. But I'll make field tests on this.


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