Stephen Lavelle puzzle games that don't give you their rulesets

Like this one:

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/nawnco/

Can you beat that? His other games are here:

http://www.increpare.com/

I'm currently playing Block Push Champion. It's not really in the same category of puzzle game, though.

http://img854.imageshack.us/img854/8364/kompression.jpg

Trying to do this one. Rule set not given but really not needed. It's all about which rows of numbers you drag.

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/tguk5/kompression/

neat

couldn't much get past 7 but v neat

Please, ilx, figure this one out:

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/woodrow_wilson/

I understand how I'm losing, but not how to win.

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/Negative_Shape/

^^^ This one is hilarious and difficult.

This one is kind of relaxing:

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/Recross/

Can we talk about this game?

http://ded.increpare.com/~locus/RAPIDFIE/

i would like a spoiler for that one

hyperactive family feud

I think there's a solution, though. I think you can do better than intuition. And sometimes what's offered up seems to become more abstruse, like it's testing if you really know what's going on. A commenter on his website suggested metonymic relationships being correct, but it's more than that.

But, yeah, there's a family feud thing going on.

I just had to pick between 1) person and 2) person (3 i can't remember). I picked the wrong person. ¯\(º_o)/¯

i think it is just which two words have a higher number of google search results.

It was tedious to check, but after awhile I got one that didn't work out this way. It was "sound." The possible matches were:

-web
-violin
-bridegroom

I chose "web." "Web" is the most common term in a google seach with "sound." "Violin" is second, and it was probably the correct answer (but this thing surprises me a lot).

???

http://www.languagehat.com/archives/004364.php

cats & abbatoirs

And maybe you guys can figure out this:

http://nottheinternet.com/games/assembly/#24|29|33|56|8|88|77|40|74|1|96|96|40|86|81|83|95|16|82|5|7|88|18|38|32|58|96|92|50|34|14|20|25|30|61|3|32|23|53|41|99|42|95|66|77|4|61|45|63|20|69|87|6|99|22|34|58|32|36|33|98|36|28|84|7|25|86|89|77|28|53|35|71|13|85|11|50|57|7|66|39|84|9|38|0|46|40|94|75|64|14|43|63|69|63|51|3|52|54|73|100|101|102|103|104|105|106|107|

(think you will have to copy and paste that whole link)

I just had to pick between 1) person and 2) person (3 i can't remember). I picked the wrong person. ¯\(º_o)/¯

― ledge, Saturday, 10 March 2012 22:22 (Yesterday) Bookmark Flag Post Permalink

yeah this happened to me. it wasn't '3' either. i don't get this, beyond 'sometimes metonymy and sometimes not', what is this 'family feud' business, is there some kind of plot implied or something

oh, family feud is a game. that is not as interesting.

184 is my best.

What if it records the associations of previous users and all the second-guessing we do makes some of the answers weird? And we throw our own idiosyncracies into it? I don't know. I looked at the big word list and it's huge. I think the program recognizes a word by its actual position in the list, and that's why one "person" will be correct and the other wrong.

The nottheinternet assembly thing looks like an abstract, pictorial programming language. The black, white and gray ones are the operators, I think. I wish the guy would open up about it, though.

wait, so there's more than one entry for 'person' in the big list?

Yeah, I think "person" appears several times.

Still can't figure out Rapidfie.

http://www.increpare.com/ <--- promotion for the next big one?