Logic grid difficulty levels

[Tanke47]

I know that stars levels are more difficult that the dots levels but. Is there any difference in the difficult between diferent colors of the dots/star?

[Krapht]

This had me confused for the longest time, but I think the colors are just different for the number of dots/stars the puzzle has. A five dot puzzle will always be yellow, a 5 star puzzle will be blue/purple. One star is orange and two star is red (all colors are IIRC)

[Cro]

4 stars is blue I think.

[The Sojourner]

The colors are always the same:
1 dot: purple
2 dots: blue
3 dots: cyan
4 dots: green
5 dots: yellow
1 star: orange
2 stars: red
3 stars: fuschia
4 stars: dark purple?
5 stars: dark blue

That said, difficulty is, as always, a subjective matter. A 5-dot puzzle can sometimes feel like a 2-dot one and vice versa, for instance.

[CascadeHush]

Yes, somewhat subjective but usually pretty good. Sometimes you just 'see it', especially with the patterns, if you are an intuitive type like me. But sometimes you don't. I usually find If I'm falling back on hints it's almost a lost cause. One or two if I'm really stuck can sometimes put me back on the right track, but more than that I'm just chasing confusion.

[󠀡󠀡]

Difficulty is related to how far "read-ahead" you have to do. 1-dot puzzles are direct application of the rules, such as no three in a row. On the other hand with 5-star logic grids you might need to read five or even more moves ahead to color a square.

[CascadeHush]

True enough, and in that sense most of them have some objective difficulty level. Harder to apply that to patterns and the music ones though.

[TNTDragons]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡:

Difficulty is related to how far "read-ahead" you have to do. 1-dot puzzles are direct application of the rules, such as no three in a row. On the other hand with 5-star logic grids you might need to read five or even more moves ahead to color a square.

I've found multiple 5-star grids that only required 2-3 moves read-ahead, so it's not that simple. Additionally, star puzzles, even though I call them difficulty 6-10 for simplicity's sake, are not strictly harder than orb puzzles. I found them to consistently require some thinking using Insight methods and occasionally some re-framing of the challenge. But if you do that real fast, a 1 star may be comparably difficult to a 3 orb. For instance if you quickly figure out the proper "setting" for one of the 5 star puzzles at the top of the world, you can solve it in <5 minutes, because the difficulty comes not from the solving itself, but from figuring out what you're actually meant to solve. Granted, sometimes a multi-star grid is just a large grid that requires a lot of effort to solve. It varies