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Malcx • yesterday at 11:39 PM • 4 replies • view on HN

A series of actually hard puzzle books, so far sudoku, killer sudoku and some fiendish wordsearches that only use 5 letters per grid.

https://extremepuzzlebooks.com

A sample wordsearch is available as a pdf here: https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/assets/sample/extreme-wordsea...

I'm quite proud of this wordsearch concept as I've not seen it done before.

All the logic puzzles have an online solution to show step by step how you can complete them.

https://extremepuzzlebooks.com/walkthroughs

I've been working on the software to generate, test and verify these for a couple of years and finally built up enough puzzle stock that meets the difficulty requirements to properly launch.

Now the work is on every hackers favourite part... Marketing!


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eps • today at 8:25 AM

Not everyone's cup 'o tea, but there's a letter search puzzles too:

https://www.amazon.com/dp/B084QLSJVF

kristiandupont • today at 5:23 AM

Neat!

Somewhat related, I built a browser-based version of my favourite deduction game: https://github.com/kristiandupont/sherlock

epiccoleman • today at 3:46 AM

Haha, I really love the word search. All my usual tactics fall apart - the limitation on the letters is adversarial in an oddly satisfying way. Cool idea.

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sevenseacat • today at 11:06 AM

oooh if you ever do logic grid puzzles I am so there

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