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Posted on: Sun Jul 31, 2022 11:04 am




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 "rate this puzzle" ?
I got some positive feedback from a puzzler about today's 12x12.

Part of my reply:

"Given that the puzzles are constructed by my software, so I have only indirect
influence of the end result, i.e. nice "logic sequences" are not in
there because I put them there,

I'm thinking it could be a good idea to have people rate a puzzle: so after
you solve it, you give it 1-5 stars for example.

Then after a while I'd know more about what type of puzzle is more entertaining,
and maybe push the software in that direction.."


Of course in the end I'd train some AI software so it knows what's a good puzzle,
and let it loose on the world [lol]


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Posted on: Tue Aug 02, 2022 9:17 pm




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
That sounds good! I would gladly rate puzzles.

-Ville


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Posted on: Mon Aug 08, 2022 5:03 pm




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 Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
Ok, I added a simple "like" function to the solved box

(you can click a "+" if you especially liked a puzzle,
for 7x7 and up only, and the 6x6 difficult)


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Posted on: Sat Jan 28, 2023 7:35 pm




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
So have you learnt anything about solvers' likes and dislikes, perhaps by reviewing the likes, or by use of AI to scan the like marks?
For myself, I mark that I liked a puzzle when it made me work hard, or it was somehow "different," or had a new (to me) feature.


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Posted on: Sat Feb 04, 2023 2:58 pm




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
randomfruit wrote:
So have you learnt anything about solvers' likes and dislikes, perhaps by reviewing the likes, or by use of AI to scan the like marks?
For myself, I mark that I liked a puzzle when it made me work hard, or it was somehow "different," or had a new (to me) feature.


Thanks for the reminder, I'll take a look at the data [thumbup]


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Posted on: Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:11 pm




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
I'm running some stats now, a first result is the "most liked puzzle", with 94 likes: the 8x8 medium of January 25th this year:

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https://www.calcudoku.org/en/2023-01-25/8/2

edit: ^^^ I changed it such that this puzzle is always solvable online (also for non-subscribers / people who are not logged in).


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Posted on: Sat Feb 04, 2023 6:32 pm




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
I also posted it on reddit, so please vote up if you have a reddit account:

https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/commen ... ku_puzzle/


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Posted on: Wed Feb 08, 2023 8:29 am




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
I am not sure if this helps.
I am not one for rating puzzles.

I am biased and want to say we all like easier puzzles because they are easier. There are puzzles where I have brain fart I and mess up an obvious assumption (boy do I feel stupid when I figure that out), and there are puzzles that I sigh at because while the pattern comes every week its just not one I like.

Puzzles that I tend to like are puzzles that have a cage or two that are unusual. For example, a corner cage for 7+ that is (2, 2, 3) or (1, 3, 3) and not (1, 2, 4). Something that allows for more possibilities. Larger cages allow for more possibilities but there was (at least) one user submitted puzzle that had very large cages and would have been unfair to complete in 24 hrs. It took time to solve.


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Posted on: Wed Aug 23, 2023 5:32 pm




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 Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
I processed a bit more than one year's worth of data, and this is now the "most liked" puzzle
(determined by dividing the number of "likes" by the number of times it was solved):

https://www.calcudoku.org/en/2023-07-19/extra

(it's a "subscriber only" puzzle, but I've created an exception for it, so it'll always be available to anyone).

If you're on reddit or twitter, please upvote/retweet [thumbup] :

https://www.reddit.com/r/puzzles/commen ... 1_year_of/

https://twitter.com/calcudokudotorg/sta ... 3682534682


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Posted on: Thu Nov 16, 2023 6:36 am




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Post Re: "rate this puzzle" ?
I would gladly rate puzzles and I usually indicate when I especially liked the puzzle.
One problem I have is what to do with the dual puzzles. I usually try to solve the A puzzle (the one on the left) by itself and I only use the second puzzle if I get stuck on the first. What I have found is that for many of these, the A puzzle is a really excellent puzzle that I enjoyed solving on its own. Combining the two puzzles is usually much less interesting.
The puzzles I like the most are ones that can be solved without trial and error but require some extra techniques that are bit out of the ordinary. For example, the may be two or three cages which individually have multiple possible totals but collectively have a known total. By examining the combinations we can eliminate some of the individual totals and make progress towards the solution.


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