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2026-09-15 · analog
Ricochet Robots (1999) — Instead of Turn Order, a Number Said Out Loud
Alex Randolph's Ricochet Robots (1999) has no turn order. There is one board, and everyone solves it at the same time. Whoever finds a route says a number out loud, and the right to demonstrate goes to the lowest bid. The sliding movement ports to code almost too well; the one minute of sand does not. Reading the rulebook closely, here is what disappears and what survives — including the tie-breaking rule the publishers still have not agreed on.
2026-09-12 · analog
Portal, The Board Game (2015) — When a Portal Stopped Being a Hole and Became "Adjacent"
Valve's Portal has a board game, released in 2015. Cardboard panels cannot hold a fall or carry momentum, so something had to go. Reading the rules closely shows exactly what went and what stayed: all that survived is the power to make two distant chambers adjacent. That alone still wrecks how you read a route. Which means anyone adding portals to a grid puzzle can test the idea with that single rule first. A translation for people who build digital puzzles.
2026-07-05 · essay
When the Control Scheme Decides the Difficulty — From Grid Movement to Drag-and-Arrange
Sokoban's grid movement, The Witness's line, the dragging of Gorogoa and A Little to the Left, Return of the Obra Dinn's cursor, The Gardens Between's time, and Golf Peaks's cards. A maker's-eye survey of how a single input shapes a puzzle's difficulty, framed by discreteness, undo cost, and affordance.

#grid-movement

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Ricochet Robots (1999) — Instead of Turn Order, a Number Said Out Loud

Portal, The Board Game (2015) — When a Portal Stopped Being a Hole and Became "Adjacent"

When the Control Scheme Decides the Difficulty — From Grid Movement to Drag-and-Arrange

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