troublesome fox girl
- she/her
- eev.ee/
hello i like to make video games and stuff and also have a good time on the computer. look @ my pinned for some of the video games and things. sometimes i am horny on @squishfox
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in reply to @lexyeevee's post:
this was super easy because i cheated and used inspect element to see which places were open and just closed them all
oh nice this means it’s easy on iOS (look at the teeny tiny corner of disclosure triangle poking out and close ‘em all)
i got this down to 5 lights before deciding it was dark enough for me.
do you even know if this is solveable? wait do you solve these by turning all the lights off or on. wait can you mathematically prove that any configuration of “chaos lights out” that’s solvable for all lights off is also always solvable for all lights on?
it's called lights out because you turn them all off! i don't know if turning them all on is possible, but i do know that the way this puzzle was generated guarantees it can be solved
Assuming I copied the game data correctly (which I did by hand so this is not a good assumption), there aren't any solutions to turn all the lights on
if it's "solvable to all lights off for any starting configuration", then solving to all lights off and repeating the solve path for "all lights on -> all lights off" gets you a solution for all lights on for any starting configuration
if it's "solvable to all lights off for some starting configuration", then no, even if you restrict yourself to:
- every light affects itself
- every light affects at most the 3x3 neighborhood centered on it
consider the 1x3 board where the lights affect (from left to right):
XX..XX.XX
then you can solve, say, X.X to all lights off, but you can't solve it to all lights on
Wh... what the f... whhh??? What's going on... why... why are the toggle shapes different everywhere, aaa
this is evil but you could do worse. what if they all had potentially unlimited range
i remember how great i felt when i realized there was a reliable way to solve this puzzle. it made me feel like i had finally had some sort of clue on how to actually do it instead of aimlessly clicking everywhere and hoping i brute force my way into success.
you have taken this feeling away from me.
Even this one has a simple algorithm (Gaussian elimination on a 54x54 matrix over Z2)
bad news for me: i apparently made a typo while building the matrix (i am doing this by hand)
I spent like an hour or two trying to solve this using linear algebra but I've done something wrong and it hasn't worked. Tragic IMO.
i got it down to 2 lights. i wanted to finish this but my schedule did not allow it
sweet jesus... it took me 40 minutes but I managed to beat it. Worked my way down from the top. No strategy, just pure intuition.
It also doubles as the “black spots in between colored squares” illusion!
