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I’ve been watching this space for a while and built my own puzzle with Cursor. Vibe coding speeds things up, but getting the idea, difficulty balance, and UI right is still tricky. Probably depends a lot on the type of puzzle (word-based vs. object placement, etc.).

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No blocks can be added at this point:

https://drive.google.com/file/d/1RJL3dhWZvsqQAekySSlsgcMhBbH...

Android 13, Firefox + uBlock Origin.

Yes indeed. You can tap on the orange square to remove it, put the red Z on the top left corner, the yellow L next to it and complete the puzzle!

Ah. From the shape of the pieces, I was thinking was Tetris rules - you could rotate the blocks.

This is fun!

Talking about balance: maybe I got lucky with my guesses, but today's puzzles all seemed pretty easy.

Thanks! The difficulty is based on the number of steps taken by my solver to solve the puzzle using backtracking and force moves calculations. Humans make better guesses, so it is not just luck ;).

I can't seem to get pieces into the grid on iPad Safari.

Thanks for the feedback, will look into it. I have too distinct interfaces for mobile and desktop so it could be that you are stuck with the desktop one that uses click (vs touch).

It works very nicely on Safari on macOS. I think I might have had the desktop interface on iPad.