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0 pointsryandrake3y ago0 comments

Well, it's the one thing the directions didn't actually say: The goal of the game. I'd be shocked if anyone went to that site and could figure out what to do.

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charcircuit3y ago

The game tells you what square to move to.

Dalewyn3y ago

You need to have /some/ experience playing chess to realize and understand chess notation.

And no, vague and indirect "move to every square in order" located separately from the chess notation is not good information. Also, no, tiny nomenclature for ants on the board is not good information.

IanCal3y ago

Also on a phone/thin browser window the goal shrinks from "huge text under the header" to "small text at the bottom of the screen" and the instructional text disappears.

throwbadubadu3y ago

Have to raise my hand then to shock you.. what else should the coordinate that is also indicated on the axes mean?

> to every square in order, right to left, top to bottom

Added to that immediately.

shrug But yeah as the title says, one realizes quickly that knight moves pretty strange so got bored after 5 targets and did something more exciting: wrote a Python script that prints me the moves from and to any coordinate (:

TuringTest3y ago

Have to raise my hand then to shock you.. what else should the coordinate that is also indicated on the axes mean?

Yeah, but it's not clear that the instructions text is talking about that symbol, *because it doesn't say so* explicitly.

Sometimes a small level of information redundancy is good for communicating with humans, instead of forcing them to make the correct inferences in place.

antifa3y ago

It wouldn't technically be redundant, the help instructions are ambiguous.

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