Question regarding the infinite puzzle generator.

[The Juggling Hamster]

Does it create puzzles with forced guesses or does it always give clues so that the board can always be solved via logic?

[BlaXpirit]

No forced guesses

[The Juggling Hamster]

Can anyone confirm this? I'm TOTALLY stumped on the puzzle generated with today's date.

[Kumaccino]

Done, no guesses needed.

[Razguul]

WAKE UP!!!!!!!! NO GUESSES NEEDED, EVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[Berahlen]

The generator is coded to always generate solvable puzzles, and tends to err on the side of an extreme overabundance of clues. I suspect it just adds clues until the solution is unique, because in over two years this game has been out, the only unsolvable seed we've ever seen was because the generator CRASHED halfway through (since been fixed).

Just tried today's seed. Not only is it solvable, but about half the column/diagonal clues are completely superfluous.

[The Juggling Hamster]

Ok then thank you everyone, I just need to get better.

(Proud owner of all 3 Hexcells games)

[Levistus]

I've never needed to guess, occasionally I may walk away for a bit and let it hit me in the face when I come back however.

[Kailen]

Four years later and I am not sure this is true anymore with the "Hard" option. In fact, I know it's not as I ended one puzzle on a legit 50/50 Minesweeper style chance a while back. x_x

[alienstookmybeer]

Originally posted by Kailen:

Four years later and I am not sure this is true anymore with the "Hard" option. In fact, I know it's not as I ended one puzzle on a legit 50/50 Minesweeper style chance a while back. x_x

And yet not one puzzle has been shared on here that was proven to be only solvable by guessing. IF you find one, we'll show you what you missed.

[Berahlen]

More than likely you grayed out a column/diagonal that wasn't completely clear.

[Khaddar]

Originally posted by Kailen:

Four years later and I am not sure this is true anymore with the "Hard" option. In fact, I know it's not as I ended one puzzle on a legit 50/50 Minesweeper style chance a while back. x_x

It is absolutely true, and no, your puzzle did not end like that - you missed some bit of information that the puzzle was giving you to be able to solve it definitively.

We see this claim a lot, but every single time it's made and backed up with a puzzle seed it turns out to be solvable through logic.

[Boksha]

Solving the puzzle is part of the generator, so if the generator spits it out, it's solvable, unless you've come across a bug. Technically possible, but to my knowledge, that's only happened twice in the past, once due to the game mislabeling certain line hints, which was found pretty quickly, and once because the generator crashed halfway through, showing a clear indication of something going wrong on the puzzle itself and in the logs.

[Sahara]

They are all supposed to be solvable without guessing, but I have run into many hard mode puzzles that I haven't (personally) been able to solve without guessing. It's really variable what you get with the random generator, some hard mode puzzles are just right for me, and some are very VERY hard.

[Berahlen]

They're all solvable, but sometimes Hard does get brutal. Feel free to post a screenshot and ask if you're stuck, there's always something and it may require a few steps of inference beyond anything the main game asked.