Comment by tianqi
10 hours ago
They are difficult. As I'm not a native English speaker, I didn't know many of the obscure words or usages, so I actually played these games from a purely computational perspective. I discovered early on that there were a lot of at least NPC problems in them. As my English improved (partially thanks to these games), intuitions began to help me take shortcuts, as if I had become a nondeterministic Turing machine.
> They are difficult. As I'm not a native English speaker
Kudos to you. That would be insanely difficult. There is a lot of American-based pop culture, knowledge, and slang that makes it even difficult if you are a native, English American speaker.
The recent alcohol-themed Strands was brutal for me as an American. The first hint I received was utterly incomprehensible.
To avoid spoilers, the word in rot13 is just as meaningful to me: Znyorp