I’d like to ask the good people of this community that, if you do know the solution or figure it out, that you not share the answer here. Feel free to announce your success, but there’s something to be said for discovering the answer completely unaided, even if it takes years.

It’s embarrassingly obvious once you see it though.

  • alejandra@lemmy.world
    3·
    1 天前

    I love puzzles like this—the rule always seems obvious after you see it. It’s satisfying when something that sits in the back of your mind for years finally clicks.

  • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
    72·
    2 天前

    Ever play the game Myst? As a kid that’s exactly how it was. Days of banging my head and then a rush of finally figuring something out. Really miss that

    • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
      6·
      1 天前

      I recommend Outer Wilds then.

      Go in as blind as possible. They recommend a controller over mouse and keyboard and they mean it. The DLC is just as good as the base game, but I’d tackle it after doing the main objective.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        2·
        1 天前

        Outer Wilds or Outer Worlds because I’ve heard good things about both but know nothing about either.

        I have played Chants of Zenaar some which also hits the feeling.

    • flyhunter@lemmy.world
      4·
      1 天前

      Take a look on tunic, but it comes with some combat action, which may not be what you are looking for.

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        3·
        1 天前

        I’ve looked at Tunic before but it always looked more like Zelda to me. I dunno why but I’ve always bounced off Zelda.

        • flyhunter@lemmy.world
          3·
          1 天前

          I don’t like Zelda games myself but loved tunic. The puzzles are completely different than Zelda, much more interesting. The other commenter mentioned you can tone the combat down. Maybe worth a try if it is on sale.

      • Blackmist@feddit.ukEnglish
        4·
        1 天前

        You can turn that down and I highly recommend doing so.

        I found the combat to be quite obnoxious.

    • fartographer@lemmy.world
      4·
      2 天前

      I was more of a Return to Zork kid. I’d work my way up to each character, and then kill that character to see their death scene. Then I’d start over and work my way to the next. I got all the way to the vulture at the cave, and stopped playing because I was told there were no more people to murder after that.

    • gigastasio@sh.itjust.worksOP
      19·
      2 天前

      Loved that game and every game in that series. Part of the fun was being dropped into this world with no clues and just having to feel your way around.

      I admit that I surrendered after a while and got a walkthrough, which was followed by several hours of, “Oh for fucks sake I could have figured that out!”

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        121·
        2 天前

        Every once in a while I definitely needed the walkthrough too. I hear blue price hits the same feeling. My wife and I just need to find time to dive into it together

      • mushroommunk@lemmy.today
        6·
        2 天前

        I have, I picked up the Myst Reader which collects all three from a used book sale a while back. I remember them being a fun read. Nothing mind blowing but a fun jaunt through more Myst

  • LillaApan@feddit.org
    21·
    1 天前

    Don’t search for creator of the puzzle, you will be instantly spoilered. At least some search engines return pictures with spoilers.

  • Jilanico@lemmy.worldEnglish
    51·
    2 天前

    Figured it out. Weirdly, knowing you solved it made me confident I could too, and I don’t even know you 🤔

    spoiler

    I focused on the anomaly ignoring the rest, tried to see what possible rules could lead to it, then went back to see which rule also applied to the “non-anomalous” numbers.

  • gigastasio@sh.itjust.worksOP
    421·
    2 天前

    Free clue: It’s not 15. That solution doesn’t work for the bottom numbers, and it’s very clearly stated that the 7 is not a typo.

    Edit: What makes this puzzle so good is that it tempts you with an “obvious” solution that works with all but the last set, but there’s an equally obvious solution that does fit every set, if you can shake yourself free of the fist one.

    • melvisntnormal@feddit.uk
      1·
      2 天前

      I wish I saw this first. I’m very prone to off-by-one errors.

      I opened the comments thinking that I solved it, then some comments with broken spoiler tags essentially spoiled the actual answer for me, despite my best efforts to ignore them.

      With these types of puzzles, I normally start looking for solutions that don’t just involve the obvious operations. Had I seen your comment first, I would’ve continued playing with the first thing I noticed (and later abandoned for the wrong solution) and I think I would’ve got there by myself eventually.

      Either others need to be more mindful of their spoiler tags, or I need to stop using Sync for Lemmy. It’s probably the latter; I’ve seen such weird formatting that only makes sense if I assume Sync’s Markdown renderer is broken.

  • Enkrod@feddit.org
    291·
    2 天前

    Hah, took me nearly a minute.

    Tap for spoiler

    Add the digits on both sides.

    ? = 12

    But I only got it so quickly because I enjoyed a similar puzzle once.

    1
    11
    21
    1211
    111221
    312211
    …

    continue the series.

  • M137@lemmy.world
    71·
    2 天前

    Wow, I just woke up and saved this to have a nice puzzle to work on for a while but I figured it out in like a minute… Kinda disappointed that happened to be honest.

    • NιƙƙιDιɱҽʂ@lemmy.world
      1·
      1 天前

      Same thing happened to me lol. I was thinking about primes, how numbers might add up, multiply, etc, and then I noticed the actual pattern. Womp womp lol.

    • matlag@sh.itjust.works
      1·
      20 小时前

      Took me a bit more and I’m not autistic. But: see below.

      Hint that helped me

      Reading op claiming he figured it by just looking at it and not making complicated calculations on a piece of paper probably helped a lot.