I didn't make the puzzles but I had no difficulties with them so far. In fact, I had a lot of fun figuring them out. They are the typical puzzles you'd find in a Professor Layton game, requiring some logical or spatial thinking, putting together clues and working with pen and paper, and there are humans on this board who give you hints actively, rather than some 3-step-hint system. Layton games sell like cupcakes, so I don't think it's farfetched to assume that people would enjoy this kind of puzzles.
Maybe the puzzles are hard for you because you're expecting them to be overly cryptic. They seem quite straight forward to me. Again, I didn't design any of the puzzles, but knew immediately what the goal of each was when I first saw it, except for the pizza one, but even in that case the reason why I didn't figure it out was because I thought too complicated at first.
Of course I speak from the perspective of someone who loves logic puzzles (and as such I really hate overly cryptic puzzles), so this event is exactly my cup of tea (and no it wasn't my idea to have this event, either).
However, one thing I noticed about your posts in this and other threads, Kritter, is that they are overly negative and seem like you feel personally attacked by the existence of this event, unless I'm misinterpreting them. I know you're only trying to help and improve the next year's Easter Egg hunt, and that's good, but calling every single puzzle "stupid" or "ridiculous", or accusing the puzzle creator of malicious intent doesn't come across as very constructive. You made some good points in other threads, but please try to not take this event as personally as you do. You said yourself that you hate logic puzzles in another thread, so it would only be fair if you'd let those who don't hate them enjoy the event for what it is.
Perhaps for next year it would really be better to have each egg cater to a different category of skills to make things more balanced, and come up with some solution to the timezone issue by giving out prizes that multiple people can claim as long as they solve it within the given day or something, and after the day is over, that prize gets deleted from the solution thread.
I didn't make the puzzles but I had no difficulties with them so far. In fact, I had a lot of fun figuring them out.
They are the typical puzzles you'd find in a Professor Layton game, requiring some logical or spatial thinking, putting together clues and working with pen and paper, and there are humans on this board who give you hints actively, rather than some 3-step-hint system. Layton games sell like cupcakes, so I don't think it's farfetched to assume that people would enjoy this kind of puzzles.
Maybe the puzzles are hard for you because you're expecting them to be overly cryptic. They seem quite straight forward to me.
Again, I didn't design any of the puzzles, but knew immediately what the goal of each was when I first saw it, except for the pizza one, but even in that case the reason why I didn't figure it out was because I thought too complicated at first.
Of course I speak from the perspective of someone who loves logic puzzles (and as such I really hate overly cryptic puzzles), so this event is exactly my cup of tea (and no it wasn't my idea to have this event, either).
However, one thing I noticed about your posts in this and other threads, Kritter, is that they are overly negative and seem like you feel personally attacked by the existence of this event, unless I'm misinterpreting them. I know you're only trying to help and improve the next year's Easter Egg hunt, and that's good, but calling every single puzzle "stupid" or "ridiculous", or accusing the puzzle creator of malicious intent doesn't come across as very constructive.
You made some good points in other threads, but please try to not take this event as personally as you do. You said yourself that you hate logic puzzles in another thread, so it would only be fair if you'd let those who don't hate them enjoy the event for what it is.
Perhaps for next year it would really be better to have each egg cater to a different category of skills to make things more balanced, and come up with some solution to the timezone issue by giving out prizes that multiple people can claim as long as they solve it within the given day or something, and after the day is over, that prize gets deleted from the solution thread.
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